When you need to serve documents like a preservation direction, a written notice, or an updated preservation direction, you follow the rules in section 181. This means that these documents are treated like orders. You give these documents to people as if they were orders, according to the rules in section 181.

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This page was last updated on 26 November 2025

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Topics:

Crime and justice > Courts and legal help

88ZB: Effect of court proceedings, or

"What happens if you go to court about something in this part of the law"

88ZD: New Zealand Police to retain applications and related documents, or

"Police must keep copies of applications and related documents for a certain time."

Part 3APreservation directions relating to foreign investigations or proceedings
Invalidity, offences, and immunities, etc: Service of documents

88ZCService of preservation directions, notices, etc

Section 181 applies in relation to the following documents as if a reference in that section to an order included a reference to those documents:
a preservation direction:
a written notice that is required to be given under this Part:
an updated version of a preservation direction that is required to be given under this Part.

Notes

Section 88ZC: inserted, on 1 October 2025, by section 20 of the Budapest Convention and Related Matters Legislation Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 39).