New Zealand Legislation: Acts

17 Submission to lapse if publication unobtainable

• (1) Where a notice of submission relating to a publication is lodged with the Classification Office under section 15(1) of this Act, and a copy of that publication is not submitted to the Classification Office, the Classification Office shall take all reasonable steps to obtain a copy of the publication.

  (2) If the Classification Office, after taking such steps as are required by subsection (1) of this section, is unable to obtain a copy of the publication, that notice of submission shall lapse, and the Classification Office shall notify the person who submitted that notice accordingly.

  Compare: 1987 No 85 s 19(6), (7)