List of statutes of New Zealand (1949–1957)

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

1950s

1950 [1]

• Auckland Harbour Trust Act [2]
• Balclutha Borough Vesting and Empowering Act [3]
• Boilers, Lifts, and Cranes Act [4] Amended: 1966/69/71/80/88
• Capital Punishment Act [5]
• Co-operative Egg Marketing Companies Act [6]
• Crown Proceedings Act [7] Amended: 1958/62/69/74/82/88
• Dietitians Act [8] Amended: 1955/64/65/70/73/79/82/94/99/2001
• Emergency Forces Act [9] Amended: 1951
• Huntly Borough Empowering Act [10]
• Hutt Valley Electric Board Empowering Act [11]
• Joint Family Homes Act [12] Amended: 1951/52/55/57/59/60/65/68/71/72/74
• Legislative Council Abolition Act [13]
• Limitation Act [14] Amended: 1962/63/70/96
• Machinery Act [15] Amended: 1956/61/63/65/68/69/70/71/72/74/76/77/78/79/81/86/89
• Marginal Lands Act [16] Amended: 1958/62/65/69/70/77
• Medical Research Council Act [17] Amended: 1951/56/65/81/86/87
• Napier City Special Rates Consolidation Act [18]
• Nelson City Special Rates Consolidation Act [19]
• New Zealand Army Act [20] Amended: 1954/57/59/60/61/62/63/65/67/69/76/81
• Palmerston North City Gasworks and Electricity Empowering Act [21]
• Potato Growing Industry Act [22] Amended: 1955/60/62/70
• Republic of India Act [23]
• Republic of Ireland Act [24]
• Royal New Zealand Air Force Act [25] Amended: 1954/57/59/60/61/62/63/65/67/68/76/80/81
• Servicemen's Settlement Act [26] Amended: 1951
• Taupiri and Renown Coal Companies Act [27]
• Waterfront Royal Commission Act [28]
• Wool Proceeds Retention Act [29] Amended: 1951/64

Plus 61 Acts amended

1951 [30]

• Air Services Licensing Act [31] Amended: 1952/55/58/60/65/67/72/73/74/78/86
• Eliza White Orphanage Trust Act [32]
• Enemy Property Act [33]
• Fees and Travelling Allowances Act [34] Amended: 1987
• John Fuller Trust Act [35]
• Lower Hutt City Empowering Act [36]
• Lyttelton Borough Gasworks and Electricity Empowering Act [37]
• Lyttelton Harbour Board Empowering Act [38]
• North Shore Drainage Act [39] Amended: 1954/56/66/67/68/69/71/83
• Oamaru Borough Council and Oamaru Harbour Board Empowering Act [40]
• Oamaru Harbour Board Rating Act [41]
• Official Secrets Act [42]
• Palmerston North Town Planning Empowering Act [43]
• Peggy Joan Boys Voluntary Settlement Act [44]
• Roman Catholic Bishops Empowering Act [45] Amended: 1970
• Te Kuiti Borough Empowering Act [46]
• Union Funds Distribution Act [47] Amended: 1965
• Wool Commission Act [48] Amended: 1952/54/61/64/67/68

Plus 70 Acts amended

1952 [49]

• Amusement Tax Act [50] Amended: 1953/56/63
• Auckland Trades Hall Trust Act [51]
• Bay of Islands Harbour Board Empowering Act [52] Amended: 1953
• Bluff Borough Council and Bluff Harbour Board Empowering Act [53]
• Bluff Harbour Improvement Act [54]
• City of Dunedin Leasing Empowering Act [55]
• Diplomatic Immunities Act [56]
• Electricians Act [57] Amended: 1956/59/60/63/66/67/69/75/76
• Geothermal Steam Act [58]
• Greymouth Borough Special Rates Consolidation Act [59]
• Hamilton City Gasworks and Electricity Empowering Act [60]
• Hutt Valley and Bays Metropolitan Milk Board Validation Act [61]
• Inland Revenue Department Act [62] Amended: 1958/60/61/66/76/78/79/80/86/88/89/90/91/92/93/94
• Land Settlement Promotion Act [63] Amended: 1955/59/61/63
• Lyttelton Harbour Board Loan and Empowering Act [64]
• Manawatu Catchment Board Empowering Act [65]
• National Parks Act [66] Amended: 1955/56/58/64/65/67/68/70/71/72/73/74/76/77/82/88/94/96/2001/05
• New Lynn Borough Empowering and Rates Consolidation Act [67]
• New Plymouth City Empowering Act [68]
• Social Service Council of the Diocese of Christchurch Act [69]
• Summary Jurisdiction Act [70] Amended: 1955
• Tauranga County Council Empowering Act [71]
• Timaru City Rates Consolidation Act [72]
• Wellington Harbour Board Loan and Empowering Act [73]
• Western Waiheke Road Board Empowering Act [74]
• Whanganui College Board of Trustees Empowering Act [75]

Plus 59 Acts amended

1953 [76]

• Auckland Hospital Board Trusts Empowering Act [77]
• Building Emergency Regulations Act [78] Amended: 1954/55/56
• Courts-Martial Appeals Act [79]
• Dairy Board Act [80] Amended: 1955/57/58/67/69/71/72/73/75/77/79/80/85/86/88/92/96/98
• Department of Agriculture Act [81] Amended: 1962/64
• Designs Act [82] Amended: 1972/76/96/99
• Emergency Forces Rehabilitation Act [83] Amended: 1971
• Geothermal Energy Act [84] Amended: 1957/66/69/73/77/80/88
• Kaikoura River Board Validating Act [85]
• Kamo Town Board Empowering Act [86]
• Kawerau and Murupara Townships Act [87]
• King George the Fifth Memorial Children's Health Camps Act [88] Amended: 1960
• Local Authorities' Emergency Powers Act [89]
• Local Elections And Polls Act [90]
• Maori Affairs Act [91] Amended: 1962/67/74/85/87/88/91
• Maori Trust Leases Renewal Act [92]
• Maori Trustee Act [93] Amended: 1962/79/85/91/96
• Motor Spirits Distribution Act [94] Amended: 1958/63/66/68/72/75/79/81
• National Roads Act [95] Amended: 1954/55/56/57/58/59/60/62/64/65/70/73/80/88
• New Zealand Government Property Corporation Act [96] Amended: 1967
• Offences at Sea Act [97]
• Orchard Levy Act [98] Amended: 1969/72/76/82/85/87/88
• Primary Products Marketing Regulations Confirmation Act [99]
• Reserves and Domains Act [100] Amended: 1955/56/57/58/60/63/64/65/66/67/68/69/70/71/72
• Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture Act [101] Amended: 1957/85
• Royal Powers Act [102]
• Selwyn Plantation Board Act [103] Amended: 1963/77/91
• Southland Catchment Board Empowering Act [104]
• Town and Country Planning Act [105] Amended: 1957/61/63/66/68/69/71/72/73/74/75/80/83/87/88
• Underground Water Act [106]
• Waterfront Industry Act [107] Amended: 1958/64/77/80/82/83/84/85
• Waters Pollution Act [108] Amended: 1962/70
• Wildlife Act [109] Amended: 1956/59/64/66/68/71/72/73/80/81/83/93/94/96/2003

Plus 86 Acts amended

1954 [110]

• Criminal Justice Act [111] Amended: 1955/60/61/62/63/65/66/67/69/70/75/76/78/80/81/83/85/86/87/88/89/93/94/95/96/97/98/99/2001
• Dargaville Borough Empowering Act [112]
• Defamation Act [113] Amended: 1958/71/74
• Historic Places Act [114] Amended: 1957/63/64/67/69/70/72/75/76/82/85/88/93/98/2006
• Kaitaia Borough Empowering Act [115]
• Maori Vested Lands Administration Act [116]
• McKenzie Trusts Act [117]
• Merchandise Marks Act [118]
• Navy Act [119] Amended: 1958/62/67/76
• Offenders Legal Aid Act [120] Amended: 1989
• Onerahi Town Board Empowering Act [121]
• Papatoetoe Borough Special Rates Consolidation Act [122]
• Patea By-election Act [123]
• Penal Institutions Act [124] Amended: 1955/61/63/64/65/69/75/76/78/79/80/81/82/83/85/89/91/93/94/96/97/99
• Raglan Harbour Board Empowering Act [125]
• Taranaki Harbour Board Act [126]
• Tasman Pulp and Paper Company Enabling Act [127] Amended: 1986
• Taupo County Act [128] Amended: 1965

Plus 52 Acts amended

1955 [129]

• Adoption Act [130] Amended: 1957/62/65/87/95/2000
• Ashburton Borough Cemetery Act [131]
• Chiropractors' Association Act [132]
• Co-operative Fertilizer Manufacturing Companies Act [133]
• Dogs Registration Act [134] Amended: 1937/61/62/65/68/69/73/76/77
• Eden Park Trust Act [135] Amended: 1970/79
• Electricity and Gas Co-ordination Committee Act [136]
• Estate and Gift Duties Act [137] Amended: 1957/58/59/60/61/62/63/64/65/66/68/69/70/71/72/74/76/77/78/79/80/81/82/83/86/87/89/90/92/93/94/95/96/2005
• Family Protection Act [138] Amended: 1921/59/67/91/2001
• Hamilton City Special Rates Consolidation Act [139]
• Hikurangi Town Council Empowering Act [140]
• Maori Reserved Land Act [141] Amended: 1997/98
• Maori Trust Boards Act [142] Amended: 1962/83/88/96
• Marriage Act 1955
• Mary Bryant Trust Board Enabling Act [143]
• Meat Export Prices Act [144] Amended: 1957/73/82
• Mutual Insurance Act [145] Amended: 1963/64/68/71/77/78/82/86
• New Zealand Foundation for the Blind Act [146] Amended: 1959
• Newspapers and Printers Act [147]
• Otago Museum Trust Board Act [148] Amended: 1968/73/78
• Palmerston North Insurance Funds Act [149]
• Rabbits Act [150] Amended: 1956/58/59/60/62/63/64
• Rawene Town Council Empowering Act [151]
• Statistics Act [152] Amended: 1978/82/85/86/88/94
• Taranaki Harbour Board Empowering Act [153] Amended: 1956/57
• Tourist Hotel Corporation Act [154] Amended: 1961/68/71/73/76/78/82/85
• Wellington Harbour Reclamation Act [155] Amended: 1969/83/86

Plus 77 Acts amended

1956 [156]

• Awanui Harbour Board Empowering Act [157]
• Boy Scouts Association of New Zealand Act [158]
• Co-operative Companies Act [159] Amended: 1976/77/98/2004
• Contracts Enforcement Act [160]
• Electricity and Gas Co-ordination Act [161]
• Greytown Trust Lands Act [162]
• Industries and Commerce Act [163] Amended: 1969
• Local Authorities Loans Act [164] Amended: 1959/61/63/67/68/71/72/76/82/86/88/89/91
• Masonic Property Trusts Act [165]
• Northcote Borough Empowering Act [166]
• Noxious Animals Act [167] Amended: 1962/67
• Republic of Pakistan Act [168]
• Saint Mary's Guild Trust Act [169]
• Tauranga Harbour Board Loan and Empowering Act [170]
• Waikato Valley Authority Act [171] Amended: 1960/61/68/69/77
• Waitemata County Council Empowering Act [172]

Plus 80 Acts amended

1957 [173]

• Archives Act [174] Amended: 1988
• Charitable Trusts Act [175] Amended: 1963/93/2007
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Trust Board Empowering Act [176] Amended: 1968
• Diplomatic Immunities and Privileges Act [177]
• Federation of Malaya Act [178]
• Hastings City Special Rates Consolidation Act [179]
• Hospitals Act [180] Amended: 1948/50/51/53/56/61/62/64/66/67/68/70/71/72/73/75/76/77/78/80/81/82/83/86/88/89/93/96
• Income Tax Assessment Act [181]
• Maori Soldiers Trust Act [182] Amended: 2001
• Oaths and Declarations Act [183] Amended: 1963/65/72/96/98/99/2001/02
• Presbyterian Church Property Trustees Empowering Act [184]
• Rangiora Borough Empowering Act [185]
• Taranaki Scholarships Trust Board Act [186] Amended: 1961/62/66/69/80/82/87/93
• Valuation Equalisation Act [187]
• Vegetables Levy Act [188] Amended: 1960/72/75/78/80/81
• Whangarei Borough Special Rates Consolidation Act [189]

Plus 86 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