Swaziland Act 1968
Swaziland Act 1968
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Swaziland Act 1968
Public Act |
1968 No 47 |
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Date of assent |
11 December 1968 |
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Contents
An Act to make provision as to the operation of the law in relation to Swaziland, and persons and things in any way belonging to or connected with Swaziland, in view of Swaziland’s having become an independent sovereign member of the Commonwealth
WHEREAS on the sixth day of September, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight, Swaziland became an independent sovereign member of the Commonwealth: And whereas on that date Her Majesty the Queen ceased to have sovereignty or jurisdiction in and in respect of Swaziland or any part thereof:
Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title and commencement
(1)
This Act may be cited as the Swaziland Act 1968.
(2)
This Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the sixth day of September, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight.
2 Existing law to apply as if Swaziland were within Her Majesty’s dominions
(1)
All existing law—that is to say, all law which, whether it is a rule of law or a provision of an Act of any Parliament or a provision of any other enactment or instrument whatsoever, has come into force or been passed or made before the commencement of this Act—shall, until provision to the contrary is made by the authority having power to alter that law, have the same operation in relation to Swaziland, and to persons and things in any way belonging to or connected with Swaziland, as it would have had if Her Majesty had not ceased to have sovereignty and jurisdiction in and in respect of Swaziland or any part thereof.
(2)
This section extends to law of, or any part of, New Zealand or any of the territories referred to in section 3 of this Act.
3 Application of Act to Niue and Tokelau Islands
(1)
This Act shall be in force in the following territories:
(a)
Niue:
(b)
The Tokelau Islands.
(2)
The First Schedule to the Niue Act 1966 is hereby amended by adding the following words:
“1968, No. 47—
The Swaziland Act 1968
The whole Act.”
This Act is administered in the Department of External Affairs.
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