New Zealand Legislation: Acts

267A Regulations relating to advertisement of a specified kind

• (1) The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister, make regulations regulating—

  • (a) all or any of the following matters in relation to an advertisement of a specified kind:

    • (i) design:

    • (ii) layout:

    • (iii) shape:

    • (iv) colour:

  • (b) the procedures to be followed by any person before displaying an advertisement of a specified kind.

  (2) Regulations made under subsection (1)(a)—

  • (a) may be made only for the purpose of ensuring that an advertisement of a specified kind does not endanger the safety of road users; and

  • (b) apply only during the period beginning 2 months before polling day and ending with the close of the day before polling day.

  (3) Regulations made under subsection (1) may—

  • (a) impose different requirements for an advertisement of a specified kind depending on how it is published:

  • (b) override or modify any other enactment and any bylaw or other instrument.

  (4) In this section, advertisement of a specified kind has the same meaning as in section 221B(2).

  (5) This section is subject to section 267B.

  Compare: 1993 No 87 s 267A (pre-20 December 2007)

  Section 267A: substituted, on 1 March 2009, by section 13 of the Electoral Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 1).