New Zealand Legislation: Acts

20 Enactments made under repealed legislation to have continuing effect

• (1) An enactment made under a repealed enactment, and that is in force immediately before that repeal, continues in force as if it had been made under any other enactment—

  • (a) that, with or without modification, replaces, or that corresponds to, the enactment repealed; and

  • (b) under which it could be made.

  (2) An enactment that continues in force may be amended or revoked as if it had been made under the enactment that replaces, or that corresponds to, the repealed enactment.

  Compare: 1924 No 11 ss 20(d), 20A; 1960 No 50 s 2