New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
The purpose of this Act is to provide for the preservation, protection, development, and accessibility, as appropriate, for all the people of New Zealand, of the collections of the National Library (which includes the Alexander Turnbull Library) in a manner consistent with their status as documentary heritage and taonga and, to this end, to—
(a) maintain and enhance the National Library; and
(b) maintain and enhance the Alexander Turnbull Library, as part of the National Library; and
(c) continue the mutually supportive roles of the National Librarian and the Chief Librarian; and
(d) establish an unincorporated body called the Guardians Kaitiaki of the Alexander Turnbull Library for the purpose, among other things, of providing assurance to the people of New Zealand that the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library are held in perpetuity; and
(e) establish an unincorporated body called the Library and Information Advisory Commission Ngā Kaiwhakamārama i ngā Kohikohinga Kōrero for the purpose of providing advice to the Minister on library and information issues, including mātauranga Māori; and
(f) dissolve the incorporated body called the Trustees of the National Library, which was established by the National Library Act 1965; and
(g) enable the Minister to notify requirements that copies of public documents be provided to the National Library, for the purposes of assisting in preserving New Zealand's documentary heritage; and
(h) ensure that the power to require public documents referred to in paragraph (g) extends to Internet documents and authorises the National Librarian to copy such documents; and
(i) provide for other related matters.
Section 3(c): substituted, on 1 February 2011, by section 4 of the National Library of New Zealand (Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa) Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 132).
