Disputes Tribunal Act 1988

Introduction

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"Updating Laws for Small Claims"

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This Act aims to combine and update the Small Claims Tribunals Act 1976. You can find more information about this in the Small Claims Tribunals Act 1976. The purpose of this Act is to make these changes. This Act was updated on 1 March 2017, by section 260 of the District Court Act 2016. You can read about this update in section 260 of the District Court Act 2016, which is available at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM6942677. This update was part of the District Court Act 2016. The changes made to this Act are important to understand how it works now. You can look at the District Court Act 2016 to learn more about these changes. This will help you understand what the Act does.

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1: Title and commencement, or

"The law that helps people solve disputes started on 1 March 1989"

Disputes Tribunal Act 1988

Reprint as at:
2026-01-24
Assent:
1988-07-28
Commencement:
see section 1(2)

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 Ministry of Justice.