Accessing online legislation
New Zealand Legislation website
The New Zealand Legislation website provides access to up-to-date Acts, PCO-drafted secondary legislation, Bills, and Supplementary Order Papers. It provides official copies of Acts and PCO-drafted secondary legislation.
See What's on the site and how it works for more information on what the New Zealand Legislation website does and doesn't provide, how often it is updated, and which versions of legislation on the site are official. Note that not all secondary legislation is published on the New Zealand Legislation website.
All legislation on the New Zealand Legislation website is also available in XML format through data.govt.nz, together with the DTDs associated with the XML data.
Other online sources of legislation
- New Zealand Legal Information Institute (NZLII) has the following legislation in PDF format:
- New Zealand Acts 1841–2007 As-Enacted Collection
- 1908 Consolidation
These two collections do not include any later amendments or show whether the Acts have been repealed. - New Zealand Statutory Regulations 1936–2007 As-Made Collection
This collection does not include any later amendments or show whether the Statutory Regulations have been revoked, or are expired or spent. - Historical Bills 1854–2008
- Historical Supplementary Order Papers (SOPs) 1870–2007
- Otago, Marlborough, Nelson, Southland, and Westland Provincial Ordinances.
- Secondary legislation drafted by agencies other than the PCO is usually available on the agency’s website. It may also be notified or published in the New Zealand Gazette.
- New Zealand Parliament website provides:
- Bills introduced since the start of 2003, and earlier Bills still before the House, and their related Supplementary Order Papers, in PDF format
- proposed Members' Bills (these Bills have not been introduced to the House, and so are not available from the New Zealand Legislation website).
Bills and Supplementary Order Papers published since the New Zealand Legislation website went live are provided by the New Zealand Parliament website by linking to the New Zealand Legislation website.
