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6Enactments repealed Empowered by s 32(1)

  • Civil List Act 1950 (1950 No 99)
  • Coroners Act 1951 (1951 No 73)
  • Education Amendment Act 1921–22 (1921–22 No 27) (1931 Reprint, Vol II, p 1100)
  • Evidence Act 1908 (1908 No 56) (1931 Reprint, Vol III, p 120)
  • Evidence Amendment Act 1945 (1945 No 16)
  • Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1954 (1954 No 72)
  • Judicature Act 1908 (1908 No 220) (1931 Reprint, Vol II, p 69)
  • Justices of the Peace Act 1927 (1927 No 37) (1931 Reprint, Vol II, pp 352, 441, 488)
  • Justices of the Peace Amendment Act 1948 (1948 No 20)
  • Land Valuation Court Act 1948 (1948 No 50)
  • Magistrates' Courts Act 1947 (1947 No 16)
  • Maori Affairs Act 1953 (1953 No 94)
  • Oaths Act 1910 (1910 No 17) (1931 Reprint, Vol VI, p 440)
  • Promissory Oaths Act 1908 (1908 No 151) (1931 Reprint, Vol I, p 1015)
  • Statutes Amendment Act 1939 (1939 No 39)
  • Workers' Compensation Act 1956 (1956 No 62)