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From: Anna Fleming [DPMC] Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet March 20, 2017 Dear Andre Thank you for your email of 2 March, seeking clarification following our response to your Official Information Act 1982 request of 2 February 2017. ‘The Laws of New Zealand’, an encyclopaedic work that provides a statement of the law Read More …
Original New Zealand Constitution as issued 1852. WHEREAS by an Act of the Session holden in the third 3 and 4 Viet. and fourth years of Her Majesty, chapter sixty-two, it c. 62. was enacted, that it should be lawful for Her Majesty, by Letters Patent, to be from time to time issued under the Great Read More …
The Imperial Laws Application Act 1988 provides that the enactments and subordinate legislation specified in the schedules to the Act together with the common law of England, insofar as it was already part of the laws of New Zealand, are the only ‘Imperial’ laws inherited from the United Kingdom which are of effect in New Read More …
1. Arrest: Valid arrests must be based on probable cause. A reasonable belief that a certain set of facts which rises to the level of a threat to life or property are true. Must be based entered into the court record via sworn statement. (REMEMBER – no sworn statement of probable cause, even in a Read More …
II. THE NEW ZEALAND SUCCESSION LAW The Constitution Act 1986 is the only piece of legislation enacted by the New Zealand Parliament which makes any direct reference to the succession law.3 Section 5 of the Constitution Act 1986 deals with the demise of the Crown.4 Section 5(1) states that: [t]he death of the Sovereign shall Read More …
Upon the foundation of the colony of New South Wales the inhabitants, as subjects of the Crown, inherited the law of England. Section 24 of the Australian Courts Act 1828 (Imp) later provided that statutes which were in force in England, as at the date of the passing of the Act (ie 25 July 1828) Read More …
The Administration of British New Guinea to the Governor of New Zealand. Government House, New Guinea, 4th September, 1888. I have the honour to enclose, for your Excellency’s information, copy of the first issue of the Government Gazette of British New Guinea, from which your Excellency will learn that the Queen’s sovereignty was this day Read More …
WHEREAS by certain Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom bearing date at Westminster the 11th day of May 1917, His late Majesty King George the Fifth constituted, ordered, and declared that there should be a Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Dominion of New Zealand: If you can spare Read More …
The ‘letters patent’ appointing William Hobson as lieutenant governor of New Zealand in 1839. George Gipps, governor of New South Wales, was in fact the first governor of New Zealand, but he delegated his powers to Hobson. Victoria R Victoria by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Read More …
An Act to consolidate certain Enactments of the General Assembly relating to the adoption in New Zealand of certain of the Laws of England and the Acts of the Imperial Parliament. If you can spare a few dollars for the creators of this website to continue their research to bring you Read More …