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Referendums Framework Bill

Schedule 1: Transitional, savings, and related provisions

You could also call this:

"Changes when the new law starts: what you need to know about the transition"

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The Referendums Framework Bill has a part called Transitional, savings, and related provisions. This part is about changes that happen when a new law starts. You can find out more about how laws are made and changed in section 6 of the bill.

This part of the bill is empty, which means there are no special rules for when the new law starts.

The bill is saying that there are no extra rules or changes that need to happen when the law is put in place.

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This page was last updated on 25 August 2025

View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=LMS1028765.

Topics:

Government and voting > Elections

85: Regulations, or

"Rules made by the Governor-General to help the referendum law work properly"

Schedule 2: Form for petition, or

"Form to Ask the Court to Check a Referendum Result"

1Transitional, savings, and related provisions Empowered by s 6

1Provisions relating to this Act as enacted

There are no transitional, savings, or related provisions relating to this Act as enacted.