New Zealand Legislation: Acts

27 No copyright in certain works

• (1) No copyright exists in any of the following works, whenever those works were made:

  • (a) Any Bill introduced into the House of Representatives:

  • (b) Any Act as defined in section 4 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1924:

  • (c) Any regulations:

  • (d) Any bylaw as defined in section 2 of the Bylaws Act 1910:

  • (e) The New Zealand Parliamentary Debates:

  • (f) Reports of select committees laid before the House of Representatives:

  • (g) Judgments of any court or tribunal:

  • (h) Reports of Royal commissions, commissions of inquiry, ministerial inquiries, or statutory inquiries.

  (1A) No Crown copyright exists in any work, whenever that work was made,—

  • (a) in which the Crown copyright has not been assigned to another person; and

  • (b) that is incorporated by reference in a work referred to in subsection (1).

  (1B) Except as specified in subsection (1A), nothing in subsection (1) affects copyright in any work that is incorporated by reference in a work referred to in subsection (1).

  (2) Subsection (1) of this section shall come into force on a date to be appointed by the Governor-General by Order in Council; and one or more Orders in Council may be made appointing different dates for different paragraphs of that subsection.

  Subsections (1A) and (1B) were inserted, as from 14 April 2005, by section 3 Copyright Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 33).