Library Guides: New Zealand Law: Legislation

Latest legislative activity: RSS feed

The feed below contains all new Acts, Bills, Regulations and consolidated Acts and Regulations published in the last 30 days.

You can set up custom rss feeds for eg: to be alerted when a particular Act is passed, or to monitor progress of a Bill, or to be alerted to amending legislation as it is passed, or to keep track of all legislative activity on a particular topic.

Making legislation

The New Zealand legislature does not have a bicameral structure - the Upper House was abolished in 1950, leaving only the Lower House, the House of Representatives. New Zealand Parliament website.

Legislation is drafted and published by the Parliamentary Counsel's Office.

Bills	Bills are available on NZ Legislation 2008 to current. Some older Bills are available on the NZ Parliament website, but coverage is not complete.
Hansard	Hansard is available on the NZ Parliament website for 2003 to current.

New Zealand Parliament
Parliamentary Counsel Office
We draft and publish legislation. And we work with others to make legislation that is fit for purpose, constitutionally sound, and accessible to all users.
New Zealand Legislation
This website is owned and provided by the New Zealand Parliamentary Counsel Office/Te Tari Tohutohu Pāremata (PCO), which is responsible for drafting and publishing most of New Zealand's legislation.

Where to find legislation

Acts as Made	Exact replicas of New Zealand acts as made are available on NZLII (1841-2007) and NZ Legislation (2007-present).
Current Acts	All Acts currently in force (including all amendments to date) are available on NZ Legislation.
Repealed Acts	Repealed Acts from 1828 to the present are available on NZLII
Historical Acts	The 1908 Consolidation of all NZ Acts in force (including amendments up to 1908) is available on NZLII
Regulations as Made	Regulations as made are available on NZ Legislation (2007-present).
Current Regulations	Virtually all current regulations (including all amendments to date) are available on NZ Legislation.
Repealed Regulations	Repealed Regulations from 1916 to the present are available on NZLII

New Zealand Legislation
This website is owned and provided by the New Zealand Parliamentary Counsel Office/Te Tari Tohutohu Pāremata (PCO), which is responsible for drafting and publishing most of New Zealand's legislation.
NZLII
NZLII provides free access to New Zealand legal information, searching over more than 200 databases.
1908 Consolidation
The 1908 Consolidation of all NZ Acts in force (including amendments up to 1908) is available on NZLII