Thank you for visiting our demonstration website

Welcome to this demonstration website

This demo website is a preview of changes planned for the website legislation.govt.nz.

Please find and view legislation, test the functions here, and share your feedback with us. We will use your feedback to make improvements to both this demo website and to the final legislation.govt.nz website.

On this demo website, you can search for secondary legislation published by many government and non-government agencies. We are working to make legislation.govt.nz the single point of access for all primary and secondary legislation.

See the What's new? page to learn what is improved and to stay updated on changes. See Improving access to NZ legislation | Parliamentary Counsel Office for why we are making changes.

This demo website is a legislation website for the purposes of the Legislation Act 2019. It contains official New Zealand legislation, both in force and not in force. It is published here using the same live collection used for the website legislation.govt.nz. For more details see About this demo website.

This demo website doesn't yet have all functions or a complete design

This demo website is a work in progress. It does not include certain features from legislation.govt.nz. Missing features include:

• RSS feeds

• print order function

• see recent searches

• section view on legislation

• browse.

The final legislation website may include these features or have improved functions to replace them.

The "other instruments" collection is not available on this website: it is replaced by agency-published legislation. For more details see About this demo website.

Known issues with agency-published legislation

The agency-published secondary legislation on this website is a pilot and there are known issues with this material, which will be addressed as agencies improve how they publish their secondary legislation and as we continue to develop our tool and processes. Whether or not an instrument is collected does not affect whether legislation is validly made or in force. Issues include:

• completeness – the pilot only includes agency-published secondary legislation that the data collection method has located so far

• showing the relationship between principal, amendments, and consolidations

• distinguishing current from revoked legislation

• distinguishing legislation from other instruments published by agencies

• matching legislation to its current empowering provision

• issues arising from agencies rearranging their websites

• providing real-time updates to all agency-published secondary legislation; approximately half of agency collections are being updated daily

• accurately linking to schedules where these empower secondary legislation

• the collection does not include local authority legislation, including bylaws made by a local authority (see section 161A of the Local Government Act 2002).

Read more about the pilot secondary legislation service.

Share your feedback as you browse or via email

Do features work well, or could they be better? Can you find the legislation you're looking for? What functions would you like to see on the site?

Use the feedback tab on the right-hand side of the page to quickly share your thoughts about the webpage you are on. It helps if you include your search terms and the path you took to get to a webpage.

Please focus your feedback on the functionality and features of this demo website, rather than how it looks. We have developed a basic design to test functions. The final website will have an updated design.

You can also email us your feedback at demo@legislation.govt.nz.