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Part 4Repeals

31Certain United Kingdom Acts to cease to have effect as part of the law of New Zealand

As from the commencement of this Act the Acts of the Parliament of England or of the United Kingdom specified in Schedule 5 shall cease to have effect as part of the law of New Zealand.
It is hereby declared that the provisions of sections 20 and 21 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1924 shall apply with respect to the Acts specified in Schedule 5 as if the last-mentioned Acts were Acts of the Parliament of New Zealand.
Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to affect the validity of any declaration duly made out of New Zealand before the commencement of this Act in the manner prescribed by the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom intituled the Statutory Declarations Act 1835, and every such declaration which, if this Act had not been passed, would be received in evidence in any judicial proceedings shall be received in evidence in those proceedings as if this Act had not been passed.

Notes

Section 31(2): amended, on 1 January 1987, by section 29(2) of the Constitution Act 1986 (1986 No 114).