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This is a partial list of statutes of New Zealand for the period of the First Labour Government of New Zealand up to and including part of the first year of the First National Government of New Zealand.

1930s

1936 [1]

• Agricultural Workers Act [2] Amended: 1937/77/79/80/81/82/83/84/85/87
• Ashburton Rivers Act [3]
• Chatham Islands County Council Empowering Act [4] Amended: 1963
• Employment Promotion Act [5]
• Fair Rents Act [6] Amended: 1937/39/41/42/47
• Geneva Convention Act [7]
• Industrial Efficiency Act [8]
• Law Reform Act 1936 [9] Amended: 1955/57/96
• League of Nations Sanctions Regulations Confirmation Act [10]
• Michael Connelly Appointment Validation Act [11]
• Mortgagors and Lessees Rehabilitation Act [12] Amended: 1937/61
• Political Disabilities Removal Act [13] Amended: 1950
• Prevention of Profiteering Act [14]
• Primary Products Marketing Act [15] Amended: 1937/54/63/72/74/75/77/81/82/83/85/87/93/97
• Protection of British Shipping Act [16]
• Regulations Act [17] Amended: 1959/62/66/70
• Southland Electric-power Supply Act [18]
• State Advances Corporation Act [19] Amended: 1937/51/53/59/61/64/68/70/72
• Sumner Borough Empowering Act [20]
• Taupiri Drainage and River Board Empowering Act [21]
• United Wheatgrowers Act [22]
• Whakatane Paper Mills, Limited, Water-supply Empowering Act [23]
• William George David Brown Trust Act [24]
• Wool Industry Promotion Act [25]

Plus 33 acts amended

1937 [26]

• Air Department Act [27]
• Air Force Act [28] Amended: 1947
• Army Board Act [29]
• Cawthron Institute Trust Board Rating Exemption Act [30]
• Christchurch Tramway Board Empowering Act [31]
• Greymouth Harbour Board Reconstitution Act [32]
• Iron and Steel Industry Act [33] Amended: 1965/88
• Motueka Borough Council Empowering Act [34]
• Nelson Diocesan Trust Board Empowering Act [35]
• Ngaruawahia Borough Council Empowering Act [36]
• Petroleum Act [37] Amended: 1953/55/62/65/67/74/75/80/82/85/88
• Physical Welfare and Recreation Act [38]
• Sale of Wool Act [39]
• School of Agriculture Act [40]
• Share-milking Agreements Act [41]
• Sovereign's Birthday Observance Act [42]
• Thames Valley Drainage Board Empowering Act [43] Amended: 1979
• Whangarei Airport Act [44]

Plus 29 acts amended

1938 [45]

• Carter Observatory Act [46] Amended: 1972/77/81/88
• Cornwall Park Trustees Rating Exemption Act [47]
• Dunedin Drainage and Sewerage Board Empowering Act [48]
• Joint Council of the Order of St John and The New Zealand Red Cross Society In Act [49]
• King George the Fifth Memorial Fund Act [50]
• Lower Clutha River Improvement Act [51] Amended: 1939/43
• Nelson City Empowering Act [52]
• New Zealand Centennial Act [53]
• New Zealand Council of Law Reporting Act [54] Amended: 1964/97/2006
• Palmerston North City Council Empowering Act [55]
• Paritutu Centennial Park Act [56]
• Social Security Act [57] Amended: 1939/40/41/43/45/46/47/49/50/51/53/54/55/56/57/58/59/60/61/62/63/64/66/67/68/69/70/71/72/73/74/75/76/77/78/79/80/81/82/83/84/85/86/87/88/89/90/91/92/93/94/96/97/98/2000/01/05/06/07
• Stallions Act [58]
• Surveyors Act [59] Amended: 1960/62/71/72/76
• Tauranga Borough Council Empowering Act [60]
• Wellington City Housing Act [61]

Plus 12 acts amended

1939 [62]

• Adhesive Stamps Act [63]
• Bluff Borough Empowering Act [64]
• Domestic Proceedings Act [65] Amended: 1958/70/71/72/74/75/76/78
• Emergency Regulations Act [66] Amended: 1940/41/42/43/44/45/46/48/49/50/51/52/53/54/55/56/57/58/59/60/61/62/63
• Hire-purchase Agreements Act [67]
• Legal Aid Act [68] Amended: 1970/71/74/76/80/83/86
• Meat Act [69] Amended: 1947/53/57/61/62/63/66/68/72/73/74/75/76/78/79/80/82/83/85/87/88/91/92/99
• New Zealand Library Association Act [70]
• Papanui Memorial Hall Enabling Act [71]
• Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Act [72] Amended: 2000
• Rural Housing Act [73] Amended: 1940/56/68/70
• Summary Penalties Act [74]
• Visiting Forces Act [75] Amended: 1957/61/81/97
• Wages Protection and Contractors' Liens Act [76] Amended: 1914/52/58/61
• Waikato Airport Act [77]
• War Expenses Act [78] Amended: 1942

Plus 22 acts amended

1940s

1940 [79]

• Carriage by Air Act [80] Amended: 1961/90/96
• Excess Profits Tax Act [81]
• Insurance Companies Act [82]
• Invercargill City Council Tramway Depreciation Fund Empowering Act [83]
• Mokau Harbour Act [84]
• National Savings Act [85] Amended: 1956/59/60
• Termites Act [86] Amended: 1963/64
• Waitara Borough Empowering Act [87]
• Waitara Harbour Act [88]
• War Pensions Extension Act [89]

Plus 14 acts amended

1941 [90]

• Auckland Centennial Memorial Park Act [91] Amended: 1947/52/62/83
• Auckland Community Welfare Centre and Auckland City Empowering Act [92] Amended: 1948
• Awatere County Empowering Act [93]
• Christchurch City Empowering and Special Rates Consolidation Act [94]
• Counties Insurance Empowering Act [95] Amended: 1980
• Kitchener Memorial Scholarship Trust Act [96] Amended: 1983
• Lower Hutt City Empowering and Rates Consolidation Act [97]
• Manaukau County Council Empowering Act [98]
• National Development Loans Act [99]
• Prolongation of Parliament Act [100]
• Rehabilitation Act (New Zealand)|Rehabilitation Act [101] Amended: 1944/47/52/53/55/57/59/63/69/86
• Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act [102] Amended: 1946/48/52/54/57/58/59/60/61/62/63/64/65/67/68/69/70/71/72/73/77/79/80/82/83/87/88
• Standards Act [103] Amended: 1950/69/72/81/2003/06
• War Damage Act [104] Amended: 1942
• Wellington Free Ambulance Act [105]

Plus nine acts amended

1942 [106]

• Auckland City Housing Act [107]
• Auckland City Market Empowering Act [108]
• Homewood Trust Act [109] Amended: 1952/79
• Invercargill City Special Rate Empowering Act [110]
• Makerua Drainage Board Empowering Act [111]
• Medical Advertisements Act [112]
• Mina Tait Horton Estate Act [113] Amended: 1955/57
• Overseas Representatives Act [114]
• Women Jurors Act [115]

Plus 10 acts amended

1943 [116]

• By-elections Postponement Act [117]
• Canterbury Jewish Cemetery Empowering Act [118]
• Commercial Gardens Registration Act [119]
• Island Territories Act [120]
• Ministry of Works Act [121]
• Morris Divorce and Marriage Validation Act [122]
• Napier Borough Empowering Act [123]
• Otaki and Porirua Trusts Act [124] Amended: 1946/69/77
• Papawai and Kaikokirikiri Trusts Act [125] Amended: 1946/72
• Servicemen's Settlement and Land Sales Act [126] Amended: 1945/46/48

Plus 13 acts amended

1944 [127]

• Annual Holidays Act [128] Amended: 1945/50/62/74/76
• Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Act [129] Amended: 1947/48/51/55/63
• Carterton Borough Empowering Act [130]
• Clerks of Works Act [131] Amended: 1961/63/66/74/76/80/87/88
• Earthquake and War Damage Act [132] Amended: 1951/64/67/79/83/85/86/87/88/91
• Frustrated Contracts Act 1944 [133] Amended: 2002
• Hawke's Bay Crematorium Act [134] Amended: 1967
• Invercargill Licensing Committee Act [135]
• Invercargill Licensing Trust Act [136] Amended: 1954/67/69/74/78/85/86/88
• Lower Hutt City Empowering and Vesting Act [137]
• Milk Act [138] Amended: 1947/51/53/55/56/58/62/70/71/73/78/80/82/87
• Ngaitahu Claim Settlement Act [139]
• Petone and Lower Hutt Gas-lighting Empowering Act [140]
• Quarries Act [141] Amended: 1951/54/61/72/73/75/77/80
• Taranaki Maori Claims Settlement Act [142]
• United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Act [143]
• Wool Industry Act [144] Amended: 1950/52/61/64/66/78/81/83/88

Plus 14 acts amended

1945 [145]

• Ashburton Borough Special Rates Consolidation Act [146]
• Atomic Energy Act [147] Amended: 1957/59
• Balclutha Housing Act [148]
• Bush Workers Act [149] Amended: 1967/78/79/81/83
• Criminal Appeal Act [150]
• Diplomatic Privileges Extension Act [151]
• Electricity Act [152] Amended: 1948/55/56/58/59/61/64/65/66/67/69/72/73/75/76/80/82/83/86/87/90/93/97/2000/01/03/04/05/06/07
• Employment Act [153]
• Housing Improvement Act [154] Amended: 1955
• Invercargill City Housing Act [155]
• John Duncan McGruer Estate Act [156]
• Linen Flax Corporation Act [157] Amended: 1956/74
• Maori Social and Economic Advancement Act [158] Amended: 1951/61
• Marianne Caughey Preston Estate Act [159]
• Masterton Borough Housing Act [160]
• Minimum Wage Act [161] Amended: 1947/49/50/51/52/68/74/87/90/91/2003/07
• New Zealand Council for Educational Research Act [162] Amended: 1976/91/2001
• New Zealand National Airways Act [163] Amended: 1948/56/57/58/60/64/65/73/75
• Nurses and Midwives Act [164] Amended: 1957/60/62/63/65/67
• Standard Time Act [165] Amended: 1956
• Waimairi County Electrical Supply and Christchurch City Empowering Act [166]
• Wool Disposal Act [167]

Plus 24 acts amended

1946 [168]

• Dilworth Trust Board Act [169]
• Land Subdivision in Counties Act [170] Amended: 1953/54/55/58/59
• Local Government Commission Act [171] Amended: 1962/63/64/69
• Lyttelton Borough Empowering Act [172]
• Nassella Tussock Act [173] Amended: 1948/53/59/65/68/70/72/74
• New Zealand Geographic Board Act [174] Amended: 1988
• Ngaitahu Trust Board Act [175]
• South Canterbury Catchment Board Act [176]
• Stock-foods Act [177]
• Tahunanui Town Board Empowering Act [178]
• United Nations Act [179] Amended: 1990
• Veterinary Services Act [180] Amended: 1948/54/55/59/62/79/80/81
• Waikato-Maniapoto Maori Claims Settlement Act [181]
• Waimakariri Harbour Act [182]
• Wairoa Harbour Act [183]

Plus 21 acts amended

1947 [184]

• Adult Education Act [185]
• Canterbury Museum Trust Board Act [186]
• Central Waikato Electric-power Board Empowering Act [187]
• Contributory Negligence Act [188]
• Control of Prices Act [189] Amended: 1953/56/58/69/70/71
• Dairy Products Marketing Commission Act [190] Amended: 1948/50/51/53/56/57/58/60
• Emergency Regulations Continuance Act [191]
• Food and Drugs Act [192] Amended: 1956/57/62
• Forest and Rural Fires Act [193] Amended: 1948/51/52/62/63/87/89/90/96/2000/05
• International Air Services Licensing Act [194] Amended: 1951/65
• J R McKenzie Trust Act [195] Amended: 1970
• Lake Taupo Compensation Claims Act [196] Amended: 1976
• Maori Purposes Act [197]
• Masteron Licensing Trust Act [198]
• Masterton Licensing Restoration Act [199]
• Paeroa Borough Water-supply Empowering Act [200]
• Patriotic and Canteen Funds Act [201] Amended: 1948/49/50/51/52/53/56/60/64/67/70/73/79/87/2005
• Reporoa Drainage Board Empowering Act [202]
• Riverton Borough Empowering Act [203]
• Royal Titles Act [204]
• Statute of Westminster Adoption Act [205]
• Superannuation Act 1947 [206] Amended: 1945/46/48/50/51/53/54/55/57/58/59/60/61/62/63/64/65/66/67/68/69/70/71/72/73/74
• Supply Regulations Act [207] Amended: 1948/49/50/51/52
• Waerenga-a-hika Trust Act [208]

Plus 38 acts amended

1948 [209]

• Apple and Pear Marketing Act [210] Amended: 1950/51/54/59/60/62/67/68/74/77/79/80/81/82/86/87/88/93
• Armed Forces Canteens Act [211] Amended: 1956/62/67/72/88
• Auckland Baptist Tabernacle Act [212]
• Auckland City Council and Auckland Harbour Board Empowering Act [213]
• British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act [214] Amended: 1959/62/65/69/73
• Bryant House Trust Board Enabling Act [215]
• Civil Aviation Act [216] Amended: 1955/58/60/61/62/63/69/70/71/75/76/77/82/87/88/89/91/92/93/96/99/2002/04/05/07
• Coal Act [217]
• Economic Stabilization Act [218]
• Gaming Poll Act [219]
• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Act [220]^{[ permanent dead link]}
• Government Service Tribunal Act [221] Amended: 1949/50/52/55
• Hutt Valley Drainage Act [222] Amended: 1949/52/53/58/64/71/74/78
• Invercargill City Gasworks and Electricity Empowering Act [223]
• Land Valuation Court Act [224] Amended: 1956/60/61/64/65/66/67
• Sutton Adoption Act [225]
• Tenancy Act [226] Amended: 1950/53/57/58/61/64/68/77
• Tokelau Islands Act [227] Amended: 1963/67/69/70/71/74
• Trades Certification Act [228] Amended: 1972/78/82/87/88
• Trustee Savings Banks Act [229] Amended: 1956/57/58/61/62/64/66/68/69/70/72/75/76/77/78/79/82
• Tuberculosis Act [230] Amended: 1950/57/58/73
• Valuers Act [231] Amended: 1959/68/70/74/77/80/81/83/91/94/97/2005
• Westport Coal Company Act [232]

Plus 51 acts amended and two acts repealed.

1949 [233]

• Auckland Harbour Development Act [234]
• Balclutha Borough Council Empowering Act [235]
• Deckston Hebrew Trust Act [236]
• Education Lands Act [237] Amended: 1950/56/60/67/75/79/91
• Fire Services Act [238] Amended: 1952/53/56/57/58/59/61/62/63/65/66/67/68/69/70/71/74/75
• George and Annie Troup Trust Act [239]
• Industrial Relations Act [240] Amended: 1963/74/75/76/77/78/79/80/81/82/83/84/85
• Licensing Trusts Act [241] Amended: 1950/51/53/55/59/61/62/64/67/68/69/70/71/72/74/75/76/77/78/80/85/86/88
• Military Training Act [242] Amended: 1951/52/53/54/56
• Military Training Poll Act [243]
• New Zealand Counties Association Act [244] Amended: 1956/67/73/76/80
• Occupational Therapy Act [245] Amended: 1954/59/64/72/80/94/99
• Physiotherapy Act [246] Amended: 1953/61/64/69/72/74/82/94/99/2000
• Radioactive Substances Act [247]
• Thames Borough Council Empowering Act [248]
• Transport Act [249] Amended: 1950/53/54/55/58/59/60/61/63/64/65/66/67/68/69/70/71/72/73/74/75/76/77/78/79/80/82/83/84/85/86/87/88/89/90/92/95/97/2000
• Whaingaroa Domain Disposal Act [250]
• Whangarei Milk Authority Empowering Act [251]
• Wool Labelling Act [252] Amended: 1957/69/75

Plus 27 acts amended

See also

The above list may not be current and will contain errors and omissions. For more accurate information try:

• Walter Monro Wilson, The Practical Statutes of New Zealand, Auckland: Wayte and Batger 1867
• The Knowledge Basket: Legislation NZ
• New Zealand Legislation Includes some imperial and provincial acts. Only includes acts currently in force, and as amended.
• Legislation Direct List of statutes from 2003 to order