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.

This Act is administered by the Parliamentary Counsel Office.

	Title
	Preamble
1	Short Title
2	Interpretation
3	Certificate of Attorney-General to be incorporated in reprint
4	Judicial notice to be taken of reprint
	Schedule Form of certificate to be given by the Attorney-General for the purposes of the Reprint of Statutes Act 1931
	Notes

An Act to make provision in relation to the publication of an annotated reprint of the Public Acts of New Zealand under the title of “The Public Acts of New Zealand (Reprint)”, and to empower the courts to take judicial notice of such reprint

Preamble

Whereas arrangements have been made for the publication in the year 1932 of an annotated reprint of the Public Acts of New Zealand, with amendments incorporated, under the title of “The Public Acts of New Zealand (Reprint)”:

And whereas it is desirable that all courts and persons acting judicially should be empowered and directed to take judicial notice of the said reprint.

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Reprint of Statutes Act 1931.

2 Interpretation

In this Act—

New Zealand Editorial Board means the Board appointed by the Government for the purposes of the reprint

reprint means the annotated reprint of the Public Acts of New Zealand, with amendments incorporated, proposed to be published in the year 1932 under the title of “The Public Acts of New Zealand (Reprint)”.

3 Certificate of Attorney-General to be incorporated in reprint

(1)

On being satisfied, after receipt of a report from the New Zealand Editorial Board, that the reprint correctly expresses and sets forth the law enacted in the several Public Acts contained in the reprint, the Attorney-General shall sign a certificate in the form in the Schedule, or to the effect thereof.

(2)

A copy of the certificate of the Attorney-General shall be printed with and incorporated in the reprint, and such certificate shall in relation to any enactment contained in the reprint be proof until the contrary is proved, either by the production of the official volume of statutes in which such enactment was originally contained or otherwise, that the reprint correctly expresses and sets forth the law enacted by that enactment and the amendments thereof, if any, as the same is in force at the date of the certificate.

4 Judicial notice to be taken of reprint

All courts and persons acting judicially must take judicial notice of the reprint, and all copies of the reprint printed or published under the authority of the New Zealand Government must be treated as being correct copies of the enactments reprinted and as having been so printed or published, unless the contrary is shown.

Section 4: replaced, on 5 August 2013, by section 77(3) of the Legislation Act 2012 (2012 No 119).

Schedule Form of certificate to be given by the Attorney-General for the purposes of the Reprint of Statutes Act 1931

I, [name], His Majesty’s Attorney-General in the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby certify that the reprint of the Public Acts, with amendments incorporated, as contained in the publication to be published under the title of “The Public Acts of New Zealand (Reprint),” correctly sets forth the law enacted by the several enactments contained therein, as at the date of this certificate.

Given under my hand at Wellington this [day] of [month] 1932.

Attorney-General.

Notes

1 General

This is a consolidation of the Reprint of Statutes Act 1931 that incorporates the amendments made to the legislation so that it shows the law as at its stated date.

2 Legal status

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.

3 Editorial and format changes

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.

4 Amendments incorporated in this consolidation

Legislation (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2019 (2019 No 59): section 12

Legislation Act 2012 (2012 No 119): section 77(3)

Reprint of Statutes Act 1931