New Zealand Constitution Amendment Act 1973
New Zealand Constitution Amendment Act 1973
New Zealand Constitution Amendment Act 1973
New Zealand Constitution Amendment Act 1973
Public Act |
1973 No 114 |
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Date of assent |
23 November 1973 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title
This Act may be cited as the New Zealand Constitution Amendment Act 1973, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 of the United Kingdom Parliament (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Power of General Assembly to make laws
The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 53, and substituting the following section:
“53
“(1)
The General Assembly shall have full power to make laws having effect in, or in respect of, New Zealand or any part thereof and laws having effect outside New Zealand.
“(2)
Without limiting the validity of any Act of the General Assembly passed before the 25 th day of November 1947 (being the date of the passing of the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1947), every Act of the General Assembly duly passed on or after that date, and every pro vision of every such Act, are hereby declared to be and always to have been valid and within the powers of the General Assembly.”
3 Repeal of obsolete provisions
(1)
Sections 57, 58, 59, and 61 of the principal Act are hereby repealed.
(2)
Section 56 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “and to such instructions as may from time to time be given in that behalf by Her Majesty”
and also the words “or that he reserves such Bill for the signification of Her Majesty’s pleasure thereon”
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This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.