(1) This Act may be cited as the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.

(2) Except as provided in sections 18(4), 22(2), 25(2), 30(2), 31(2), and 32(2), this Act shall come into force on the day on which it receives the Royal assent.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

This Act shall bind the Crown.

(1) The Chief Parliamentary Counsel shall, under the control of the Attorney-General, arrange for the printing and publication of—

• (a) copies of every Act enacted by Parliament after the commencement of this section; and

• (b) copies of all regulations made after the commencement of this section; and

• (c) reprints of Acts of Parliament and reprints of regulations; and

• (d) reprints of Imperial Acts that have effect as part of the laws of New Zealand.

(2) Every such copy and every such reprint shall state that it is published under the authority of the New Zealand Government.

All regulations made after the passing of this Act shall, forthwith after they are made, be forwarded to the Chief Parliamentary Counsel.

The Attorney-General may direct that copies of regulations made before the passing of this Act shall be printed and published in accordance with section 4.

(1) The Attorney-General may from time to time give directions as to the form in which—

• (a) copies of Acts of Parliament; or

• (b) reprints of Acts of Parliament; or

• (c) copies of regulations; or

• (d) reprints of regulations; or

• (e) reprints of Imperial Acts that have effect as part of the laws of New Zealand,—

shall be printed and published under this Act.

(2) Directions given under this section may provide for the printing of all or any copies of—

• (a) Acts of Parliament; or

• (b) reprints of Acts of Parliament; or

• (c) regulations; or

• (d) reprints of regulations; or

• (e) reprints of Imperial Acts that have effect as part of the laws of New Zealand,—

with the omission of such signatures and formal or introductory parts as the Attorney-General from time to time directs.

Notwithstanding anything in section 7(2), there shall, in the case of all regulations, be printed references to—

• (a) the Act or other authority pursuant to which the regulations were made; and

• (b) the date on which the regulations were made; and

• (c) the date (if any) on which the regulations are expressed to come into force.

(1) The Attorney-General shall from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, designate places where copies of—

• (a) Acts of Parliament; and

• (b) regulations,—

shall be available for purchase by members of the public.

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), copies to which that subsection applies may be made available for purchase by members of the public not only at the places designated under that subsection but also at other places.

(1) The Chief Parliamentary Counsel shall, under the control of the Attorney-General, make available for purchase by members of the public at the places designated from time to time by the Attorney-General under section 9(1) copies of Acts of Parliament and regulations at a reasonable price.

(2) On the repeal or expiry of any Act of Parliament or the revocation or expiry of any regulations, subsection (1) shall cease to apply in relation to that Act of Parliament or those regulations.

(1) All copies of regulations printed and published pursuant to section 4 shall be identified by a number as part of an annual series of regulations.

(2) Any regulations may, without prejudice to any other mode of citation, be cited by the number given to them and by a reference to the year in which copies of them are printed and published.

The Chief Parliamentary Counsel shall, on each occasion on which copies of regulations are printed and published under section 4, arrange for the publication in the Gazette of a notice showing—

• (a) the title of the regulations:

• (b) the date on which the regulations were made:

• (c) the Act or other authority pursuant to which the regulations were made:

• (d) the number allocated to the regulations under section 11:

• (e) a place at which copies of the regulations may be purchased:

• (f) such other information as the Chief Parliamentary Counsel considers appropriate.

Where any regulations are required by any Act to be published or notified in the Gazette, the publication in the Gazette of a notice under section 12 which relates to those regulations shall be sufficient compliance with that requirement.

(1) Any instrument that is not a regulation may, if the Attorney-General or the Chief Parliamentary Counsel so directs, be printed and published in accordance with section 4, as if it were a regulation.

(2) An instrument shall not by virtue of its printing and publication under this section be a regulation for the purposes of this Act.

(3) The provisions of sections 7, 8, 11, 12, and 13 shall apply with respect to every instrument that is so printed and published as if it were a regulation for the purposes of this Act.

(1) The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, revoke any regulations or, as the case may require, declare that they shall cease to have effect as part of the laws of New Zealand, if the Governor-General in Council is satisfied that they have ceased to have effect or are no longer required.

(2) This section is in addition to the provisions of any other enactment relating to the revocation of any regulations.

(3) In this section, the term regulations includes, in addition to regulations within the meaning of section 2,—

• (a) any Order in Council or Proclamation; or

• (b) any notice, Warrant, order, direction, determination, rules, or other instrument of authority—

made or given by the Governor-General or any Minister of the Crown or any person in the service of the Crown, or made or given under any Imperial Act.

Judicial notice must be taken by all courts and persons acting judicially of all Acts of Parliament.

(1) Judicial notice must be taken by all courts and persons acting judicially of all regulations.

(2) In subsection (1) and sections 16C and 16D, regulations—

• (a) has the same meaning as in section 2; and

• (b) includes any instrument that, under section 14, has been printed and published as if it were a regulation.

(1) Every copy of any Act of Parliament or of any Imperial enactment or any Imperial subordinate legislation (as defined in section 2 of the Imperial Laws Application Act 1988) being a copy purporting to be printed or published (whether before or after the commencement of this section) under the authority of the New Zealand Government is, unless the contrary is shown, deemed—

• (a) to be a correct copy of that Act of Parliament, enactment, or legislation; and

• (b) to have been so printed or published.

(2) Every copy of any Imperial enactment or Imperial subordinate legislation (as so defined), being a copy purporting to be printed (whether before or after the commencement of this section) by the Queen's or King's Printer or under the superintendence or authority of Her Majesty's Stationery Office in the United Kingdom, is, unless the contrary is shown, deemed—

• (a) to be a correct copy of that enactment or legislation; and

• (b) to have been so printed.

(3) Every copy of any regulations (as defined in section 16B(2)) purporting to be printed, whether before or after the commencement of this section, under the authority of the New Zealand Government is, unless the contrary is shown, deemed—

• (a) to be a correct copy of those regulations; and

• (b) to have been so printed or published; and

• (c) to be evidence that the regulations were notified in the Gazette on the date printed on that copy as the date of their notification in the Gazette.

(1) This section applies to any copy of a reprint of any legislation, where that copy purports to be printed or published (whether before or after the commencement of this section) under the authority of the New Zealand Government.

(2) Unless the contrary is shown, every copy of a reprint to which this section applies is to be taken—

• (a) to be a copy of a reprint that correctly states, as at the date at which it is stated to be reprinted, the law enacted or made by the legislation reprinted and by the amendments (if any) to that legislation; and

• (b) to have been printed or published under the authority of the New Zealand Government.

(3) To avoid any doubt, the presumption contained in subsection (2) applies to a copy of a reprint in which changes authorised by section 17C have been made.

(4) The presumption contained in subsection (2) may be rebutted by the production of the official volume in which the relevant legislation or any amendment to that legislation, as the case requires, is contained.

(5) Subsection (4) does not limit any other means of rebutting the presumption contained in subsection (2).

(6) In this section, unless the context otherwise requires,—

All copies of the Journals of the Legislative Council or the House of Representatives, purporting to be printed by the Government Printer or published by order of the House of Representatives, must be admitted as evidence of those matters by all courts and persons acting judicially without proof being given that those copies were so printed or published.

It shall not be necessary to gazette Acts of Parliament.

In this section and sections 17B to 17F, unless the context otherwise requires,—

The purpose of sections 17C to 17E is to facilitate the production of up-to-date reprints that, to the extent permitted by those sections, are in a format and style consistent with current drafting practice.

(1) Changes authorised by sections 17D and 17E may be made in a reprint.

(2) Sections 17D and 17E do not permit any change that, if it were enacted or made as an amendment to the legislation reprinted, would change the effect of the legislation.

(1) Format may be changed so that the format of the reprint is consistent with current drafting practice.

(2) Changes authorised by this section include (without limitation)—

• (a) changes to the setting out of provisions, tables, and schedules:

• (b) the repositioning of marginal notes or section headings:

• (c) changes to typeface and type size:

• (d) the addition or removal of bolding, italics, and similar textual attributes:

• (e) the addition or removal of quotation marks and rules:

• (f) changes to the case of letters or words (for example, the replacement of small capitals with ordinary capitals, and of capitals and small capitals with capitals and lower case):

• (g) the addition, alteration, or removal of running heads:

• (h) the repositioning of the date of Royal assent.

(1) Punctuation may be altered or omitted, or new punctuation inserted, so that the reprint uses punctuation that is consistent with current drafting practice.

(2) Unnecessary referential words may be omitted.

(3) Dates may be expressed in a manner consistent with current drafting practice.

(4) A Part numbered with roman numerals may be numbered with arabic numerals, and any cross-references to that Part in the reprint, or in another reprint, may be consequentially amended.

(5) The following changes may be made in relation to schedules:

• (a) a schedule may be renumbered so as to be consistent with current drafting practice (for example, Schedule 1 may replace First Schedule), and any cross-references to that schedule in the reprint, or in another reprint, may be consequentially amended:

• (b) a reference to a schedule to a particular enactment may be changed to a schedule of that enactment.

(6) Subsection (5) does not limit this section or section 17D.

If changes authorised by section 17C are made in a reprint, the reprint must—

• (a) indicate that fact in a suitable place; and

• (b) outline in general terms, and in a suitable place, the changes made.