Reprint as at 1 September 2017
Contractual Mistakes Amendment Act 2002: repealed, on 1 September 2017, pursuant to section 345(1)(c) of the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017 (2017 No 5).
Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this eprint. See the notes at the end of this eprint for further details.
This Act is administered by the Ministry of Justice.
The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows:
(1)
This Act is the Contractual Mistakes Amendment Act 2002.
(2)
In this Act, the Contractual Mistakes Act 1977 is called “the principal Act”.
“the principal Act”
This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent.
Section 2(1) of the principal Act is amended by repealing the definition of Court, and substituting the following definition:
Court means, in relation to any matter, the court, tribunal, or arbitral tribunal by or before which the matter falls to be determined
Section 4(1) of the principal Act is amended by omitting the words “and arbitrators”.
“and arbitrators”
Section 5(3) of the principal Act is amended—
by omitting the words “or an arbitrator” ; and
“or an arbitrator”
by omitting the words “or his”.
“or his”
The principal Act is amended by repealing sections 9 and 10.
The principal Act is amended by inserting, before section 12, the following section:
This Act does not apply to any contract, or any part of any contract, that is governed by a law other than New Zealand law.
This is an eprint of the Contractual Mistakes Amendment Act 2002 that incorporates all the amendments to that Act as at the date of the last amendment to it.
This eprint is not an official version of the legislation under section 18 of the Legislation Act 2012.
Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017 (2017 No 5): section 345(1)(c)