New Zealand Legislation: Acts

16E Copies of parliamentary Journals to be evidence

• All copies of the Journals of the Legislative Council or the House of Representatives, purporting to be printed by the Government Printer or published by order of the House of Representatives, must be admitted as evidence of those matters by all courts and persons acting judicially without proof being given that those copies were so printed or published.

  Sections 16A to 16E were inserted, as from 1 August 2007, by section 216 Evidence Act 2006 (2006 No 69). See clause 2(2) Evidence Act 2006 Commencement Order 2007 (SR 2007/190).