Key New Zealand Laws Flashcards
(18 cards)
Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865 (imp)
-said that NZ can create law contradicting British law unless they extend specifically to NZ
Statute of Westminster Act 1931 (imp)
- repealed colonial laws validity act
- NZ can leg. extra territorially
- uk laws by consent only
Electoral Act 1893
-universal enfranchisement
Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1895
- compulsory arbitration
- unions
- settled work environment
- minimum wage
Old age pensions act 1898
- worlds first comprehensive pension system
- exc. Asians
- deserving poor
Crimes Act 1961
Codified crimes laws
Resource management Act 1991
Codified environmental law
Accident compensation act 1972
Removed personal injury negligence tort
Statute of Westminster Adoption act 1947
Adopts statute of Westminster act 1931
New Zealand constitution (amendment) act 1947
Gave New Zealand the power to suspend repeal or alter the nzca 1852
- needed to abolish legislative council
- signalled independence
Social security act 1938
Superannuation
Unemployment benefit
Codified corporate law
Companies Act 1993
Codified Māori land law
Te Ture Whenua Māori act 1993
Established waitangi tribunal
Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975
Labour’s liberal economic legislation
Commerce Act 1986
Goods and services Act 1985
State owned enterprises act 1986
Labour’s liberal social legislation
- Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986
- Treaty of Waitangi Amendment Act 1985
- New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987
Employment contracts Act 1991
National legislation deregulating employment relations and limiting the trade unions powers
New Zealand Constitution Act 1852
- House of representatives (lower house)
- Legislative council (upper house) app. by governor
- provincial legislature
- laws couldn’t contradict British law
