Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989

16D Copy of reprint of Act, Imperial legislation, or regulations to be evidence

• (1) This section applies to any copy of a reprint of any legislation, where that copy purports to be printed or published (whether before or after the commencement of this section) under the authority of the New Zealand Government.

  (2) Unless the contrary is shown, every copy of a reprint to which this section applies is to be taken—

  • (a) to be a copy of a reprint that correctly states, as at the date at which it is stated to be reprinted, the law enacted or made by the legislation reprinted and by the amendments (if any) to that legislation; and

  • (b) to have been printed or published under the authority of the New Zealand Government.

  (3) To avoid any doubt, the presumption contained in subsection (2) applies to a copy of a reprint in which changes authorised by section 17C have been made.

  (4) The presumption contained in subsection (2) may be rebutted by the production of the official volume in which the relevant legislation or any amendment to that legislation, as the case requires, is contained.

  (5) Subsection (4) does not limit any other means of rebutting the presumption contained in subsection (2).

  (6) In this section, unless the context otherwise requires,—

  Imperial enactment and Imperial subordinate legislation have the meanings given to them by section 2 of the Imperial Laws Application Act 1988

  legislation means any Act, Imperial enactment, Imperial subordinate legislation, or regulations

  official volume means any volume containing copies of legislation that are deemed, by section 16C, to be correct copies of that legislation.

  Section 16D: inserted, on 1 August 2007, by section 216 of the Evidence Act 2006 (2006 No 69).