Version as at 17 December 2022
Subordinate Legislation Confirmation Act 2021: repealed, on 17 December 2022, by section 6 of the Secondary Legislation Confirmation Act 2022 (2022 No 82).
The Parliamentary Counsel Office has made editorial and format changes to this version using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.
Note 4 at the end of this version provides a list of the amendments included in it.
The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows:
This Act is the Subordinate Legislation Confirmation Act 2021.
This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent.
The purpose of this Act is to confirm certain confirmable instruments and annual confirmable instruments that, unless earlier confirmed by an Act of Parliament, are—
revoked at the applicable deadline under section 47C(1)(a) or (b) of the Legislation Act 2012; or
taken after the applicable deadline to have been invalid for their past operation (because they have been revoked with effect before or on the deadline) under section 47D of the Legislation Act 2012.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, confirmable instrument and annual confirmable instrument have the same meanings as in section 47B of the Legislation Act 2012.
This Act binds the Crown.
The Subordinate Legislation Confirmation Act 2020 (2020 No 66) is repealed.
The following orders are confirmed:
Biosecurity (Readiness and Response—Fresh Vegetables Levy) Order 2020 (LI 2020/152):
Biosecurity (Readiness and Response—Process Vegetables Levy) Order 2020 (LI 2020/153):
Biosecurity (Response—Apples and Pears Levy) Order 2020 (LI 2020/154):
Biosecurity (American Foulbrood—Beekeeper Levy) Amendment Order (No 2) 2020 (LI 2020/155):
Biosecurity (Response—Winegrapes and Grape Wine Levy) Order 2020 (LI 2020/202):
Biosecurity (Readiness and Response—Horses and Horse Germplasm Levy) Order 2020 (LI 2020/203):
Biosecurity (Response—Apples and Pears Levy) Amendment Order 2020 (LI 2020/229).
Commodity Levies (Milksolids) Order 2020 (LI 2020/181):
Commodity Levies (Feijoas) Order 2020 (LI 2020/300).
Excise and Excise-equivalent Duties Table (Tobacco Products Indexation) Amendment Order 2020:
Excise and Excise-equivalent Duties Table (Alcoholic Beverages Indexation) Amendment Order 2021.
The Fisheries (Alteration of Quota Management Area—Paua Kaikōura Coast) Order 2021 (LI 2021/153) is confirmed.
The Social Security (Rates of Benefits and Allowances) Order 2021 (LI 2021/15) is confirmed.
Social Security (Definitions of Income Test 1, Income Test 2, Income Test 3, and Income Test 4) Order 2021 (LI 2021/16):
Social Security (Rates of Main Benefits) Order 2021 (LI 2021/120).
The Tariff (PACER Plus) Amendment Order 2020 is confirmed.
The Waste Minimisation (Calculation and Payment of Waste Disposal Levy) Amendment Regulations 2021 (LI 2021/68) are confirmed.
This is a consolidation of the Subordinate Legislation Confirmation Act 2021 that incorporates the amendments made to the legislation so that it shows the law as at its stated date.
A consolidation is taken to correctly state, as at its stated date, the law enacted or made by the legislation consolidated and by the amendments. This presumption applies unless the contrary is shown.
Section 78 of the Legislation Act 2019 provides that this consolidation, published as an electronic version, is an official version. A printed version of legislation that is produced directly from this official electronic version is also an official version.
The Parliamentary Counsel Office makes editorial and format changes to consolidations using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. See also PCO editorial conventions for consolidations.
Secondary Legislation Confirmation Act 2022 (2022 No 82): section 6