The law used to have a section called ‘Publication of seditious documents’. This section was part of the ‘Offence of oath to commit offence’ in the Crimes Act 1961. However, this section no longer exists. It was removed from the law on 1 January 2008. This means that whatever this section used to say about publishing seditious documents is no longer part of the current law in New Zealand.
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View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM328556.
83: Seditious statements, or
“This law, which made it illegal to say things against the government, no longer exists.”
85: Use of apparatus for making seditious documents or statements, or
“It used to be against the law to use machines or tools to make things that could upset people about the government, but this rule doesn't exist anymore.”
