List of acts of the New Zealand Parliament (1912–1928)

This is a list of acts of the New Zealand Parliament for the period of the Reform Government of New Zealand up to and including part of the first year of the United Government of New Zealand.

1900s

1912 [1]

• Aged and Infirm Persons Protection Act [2] Amended: 1957/69/75
• Akaroa and Wainui Road District, Akaroa County, and Wairewa County Alteration o Act [3]
• Auckland Education Reserves Act [4]
• Barmaids Registration Act [5]
• Country Telephones-lines Act [6]
• Deputy Governor's Powers Act [7]
• Land Agents Act [8] Amended: 1955/56/59/61
• Mokau Harbour Board Empowering Act [9]
• New Plymouth Huatoki Stream Diversion and Exchange Act [10]
• Oamaru King George's Park Reserve Vesting Act [11]
• Plumbers Registration Act [12] Amended: 1950/55
• Public Service Act [13] Amended: 1927/46/50/51/52/54/59/60
• Tatum Trust Revocation Act [14]
• Tauranga Harbour Act [15] Amended: 1917
• Thomas George Macarthy Trust Act [16] Amended: 1972
• Waimairi County Differential Rate Empowering Act [17]
• Wellington and Karori Sanitation and Water-supply Act [18] Amended: 1915
• Westland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board Vesting and Empowering Act [19]
• Whakatane Harbour Act [20] Amended: 1915/16/17/20/22/28/50

Plus 49 acts amended

1913 [21]

• Amendment Acts Incorporation 1913 Act [22]
• Auckland City Empowering Act [23]
• Board of Agriculture Act [24]
• Christchurch Electrical Supply Empowering Act [25]
• Church of England Trusts Act [26] Amended: 1937/45/60
• City of Nelson Loans Conversion and Empowering Act [27] Amended: 1916
• Footwear Regulation Act [28] Amended: 1915
• Fruit-preserving Industry Act [29] Amended: 1914/15
• Gisborne Borough and Harbour Board Lands Exchange and Empowering Act [30]
• Hamilton High School Reserve Act [31]
• Irrigation and Water-supply Act [32]
• Kaitaia Land Drainage Act [33]
• Labour Disputes Investigation Act [34]
• McDougall Trust Estate Act [35]
• Methodist Union Act [36]
• New Zealand Institute of Architects Act [37] Amended: 1919/21
• Old-age Pensions Reciprocity Act [38]
• Rangiora Drill-shed Site Vesting Act [39]
• Science and Art Act [40]
• Springs County Council Reclamation and Empowering Act [41]
• State Advances Act [42] Amended: 1914/15/22/23
• Temporary Employees Act [43]
• Wanganui Borough Council Special Rate Empowering and Special Loan Act [44]
• Wanganui Borough Council Street Access Empowering Act [45] Amended: 1916
• Wanganui Harbour District and Empowering Act [46] Amended: 1923/26/29/35/37/54
• Western Taieri Land Drainage Board Enabling Act [47]
• Westport Public Parks Vesting Act [48]
• Whangarei Foreshore Vesting Act [49]

Plus 53 acts amended

1914 [50]

• Auckland City and Auckland Harbour Board Empowering Act [51]
• Christchurch Milk-supply and Markets Act [52] Amended: 1917
• Dunedin City Council Empowering Act [53]
• Education Act 1914 [54]
• Eltham Drainage Board Act [55]
• Expeditionary Forces Voting Act [56]
• Iron and Steel Industries Act [57] Amended: 1920/25
• Local Railways Act [58] Amended: 1915/20/26/88
• Mortgages Extension Act [59] Amended: 1914/15/21
• Onehunga Borough Council Enabling Act [60]
• Port Ahuriri-Westshore Road and Railway Act [61]
• Railways Improvement Authorization Act [62] Amended: 1915
• Regulation of Trade and Commerce Act [63] Amended: 1915/17
• Remounts Encouragement Act [64]
• Riccarton Bush Act [65] Amended: 1947/49/64/72/79
• Southland Land Drainage Act [66] Amended: 1938
• Takapuna Borough Foreshore Vesting Act [67]
• Taumurunui Hospital District Act [68]
• Trading with the Enemy Act [69] Amended: 1915
• Waitara Harbour Board Empowering Act [70]
• War Contributions Validation Act [71]
• War Regulations Act [72] Amended: 1915/16
• War Risk Insurance Act [73]
• Whangarei Borough Land Vesting Act [74]
• Whangarei Harbour Board Empowering Act [75]

Plus 54 acts amended and one act repealed.

1915 [76]

• Alien Enemy Teachers Act [77]
• Auckland City Markets and Empowering Act [78]
• Bluff Harbour Improvements Act [79]
• Cook Islands Act [80] Amended: 1921/25/26/46/48/50/52/54/56/57/60/61/62/63/64/65/66/67/70/74/80/82/2007
• Cost of Living Act [81]
• Devonport Borough Vesting Act [82]
• Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act [83] Amended: 1916/17/19/21/23/24
• Enemy Contracts Act [84]
• Expeditionary Forces Act [85] Amended: 1918
• Expiring Laws Continuance Act [86]
• Georgetti Trust Estate Act [87]
• Inglewood Borough Endowment Disposal Act [88]
• Lake Coleridge Water-power Act [89]
• Land Transfer Acts Compilation Act [90]
• Lights on Vehicles Act [91]
• Local Authorities Empowering Act [92]
• Military Manoeuvres Act [93]
• Miner's Phthisis Act [94]
• National Registration Act [95]
• Papakura Beach Vesting Act [96]
• Prisoners Detention Act [97]
• Public Expenditure Validation Act [98]
• Suspension of Disqualification During War Act [99]
• Swamp Drainage Act [100] Amended: 1922/26/28/48/77
• Tauranga Borough Council and Tauranga Harbour Board Empowering Act [101]
• Tauranga Foreshore Vesting and Endowment Act [102]
• Tokomaru Bay Harbour Act [103]
• War Funds Act [104] Amended: 1918/24/27
• War Pensions Act [105] Amended: 1916/17/23/35/36/40/45/46/47/49/50/51/55/57/58/60/61/62/63/64/65/66/67/68/69/70/71/72/73/74/75/76/77/78/79/80/81/82/83/86/88/90/91/96/2001/03/05/06

Plus 62 acts amended

1916 [106]

• Auckland City Parks Improvement and Empowering Act [107]
• Christchurch Rating Agreements Enabling Act [108]
• Cinematograph-film Censorship Act [109] Amended: 1926
• Gisborne Borough Gas Act [110]
• Invercargill Athenaeum Act [111]
• Land and Income Tax Act [112] Amended: 1920/22/24/25/26/27/29/30/31/32/33/35/36/39/40/41/44/45/46/49/50/51/52/53/54/55/56/57/58/59/60/61/62/63/64/65/66/67/68/69/70/71/72/73/74/75/76
• Military Service Act [113] Amended: 1917/20
• New Zealand Insurance Company Trust Act [114]
• Orchard-tax Act [115] Amended: 1921/33/34
• Parliamentary Elections Postponement Act [116]
• Waimakariri Harbour District and Empowering Act [117] Amended: 1917/20/24
• Wairau Harbour Board Loan and Enabling Act [118]
• Wellington Methodist Charitable and Educational Trusts Act [119] Amended: 1974

Plus 13 acts amended

1917 [120]

• Day's Bay Sanitation and Water-supply Act [121]
• Manawatu County Loan and Empowering Act [122] Amended: 1919
• Napier Harbour Board Empowering and Vesting Act [123]
• Nelson Harbour Board Empowering Act [124] Amended: 1953
• New Zealand Inscribed Stock Act [125]
• Registration of Aliens Act [126] Amended: 1920
• Revocation of Naturalization Act [127] Amended: 1920
• Sale of Liquor Restriction Act [128]
• Social Hygiene Act [129]
• State Supply of Electrical Energy Act [130] Amended: 1956/57/58/59/60/61/64/65
• War Legislation Act [131] Amended: 1916
• War Purposes Loan Act [132]
• Wellington City Trading Departments' Reserve and Renewal Funds Act [133] Amended: 1950
• Western Taieri Land Drainage Act [134]
• Whangarei Harbour Board Vesting Act [135] Amended: 1951

Plus 17 acts amended

1918 [136]

• Auckland Harbour Board, Devonport Borough Council, and Devonport Domain Board Act [137]
• Auckland Institute and Museum Site Empowering Act [138]
• Aviation Act [139]
• Dunedin City Fish-markets and Empowering Act [140]
• Electric-power Boards Act [141] Amended: 1919/20/21/22/23/27/28/47
• Invercargill Borough Council Special Rate Empowering Act [142] Amended: 1921
• John Donald Macfarlane Estate Administration Empowering Act [143]
• Military Decorations and Distinctive Badges Act [144] Amended: 1969/74
• Napier Harbour Board and Napier High School Empowering Act [145] Amended: 1921
• Napier Harbour Board Loans Enabling Act [146]
• New Plymouth Borough and Harbour Board Exchange Act [147]
• Orari and Waihi Rivers Act [148]
• Rangitata River Act [149]
• Repatriation Act [150]
• Thames Borough Boundaries Alteration Act [151]
• Uawa County Act [152]
• Whangarei Borough Empowering Act [153] Amended: 1922

Plus 13 acts amended

1919 [154]

• Auckland University College Site Act [155]
• Board of Trade Act [156] Amended: 1923
• Charles Joseph Jury Estate Empowering Act [157]
• Discharged Soldiers Settlement Loans Act [158]
• Education Purposes Loans Act [159]
• Electric-power Works Loan Act [160]
• External Affairs Act [161] Amended: 1920
• Fishing Industry Promotion Act [162]
• Greytown Borough Loan Empowering Act [163]
• Hauraki Plains, Thames, Ohinemuri, and Piako Counties Act [164]
• Housing Act [165] Amended: 1920/21/25/40/56/71/80/88/92
• Howard Estate Act [166] Amended: 1926/27/85/88
• Inglewood County Act [167]
• Manawatu Gorge Road and Bridge Act [168]
• Matakaoa County Act [169]
• Official Appointments and Documents Act [170]
• Palmerston North Abattoir Act [171]
• Statutes Repeal and Expiring Laws Continuance Act [172]
• Tauranga Borough Council Electric Loans Empowering Act [173]
• Tauranga Harbour Board Empowering Act [174] Amended: 1921
• Tolaga Bay Harbour Act [175]
• Treaties of Peace Act [176] Amended: 1920
• Undesirable Immigrants Exclusion Act [177]
• Victory Park Act [178]
• Waimakariri Harbour Board Reserve Act [179]
• Wellington City Abattoir Charges and Renewal Fund Act [180]
• Wellington City Abattoir Loan Act [181]
• Westport Technical School Site Act [182]
• Whangarei Harbour Board Vesting and Empowering Act [183] Amended: 1954
• Women's Parliamentary Rights Act [184]

Plus 35 acts amended

1920s

1920 [185]

• Anzac Day Act [186] Amended: 1921/96
• Bay of Islands Harbour Act [187] Amended: 1922/30/36
• Dunedin City Corporation Empowering Act [188] Amended: 1927/30/44
• Health Act [189] Amended: 1940/47/51/54/58/59/60/61/62/67/70/71/72/73/75/76/78/79/80/82/87/88/93/94/98/2005/06
• Masseurs Registration Act [190] Amended: 1924/35
• Native Trustee Act [191] Amended: 1921/22/24/26/29
• Offenders Probation Act [192] Amended: 1930
• Rotorua Town Lands Act [193] Amended: 1977
• Statutes Drafting and Compilation Act [194] Amended: 1973/88/95
• Taieri River Improvement Act [195] Amended: 1921/32/39
• Te Aroha Crown Leases Act [196]
• Thames Harbour Board Loan and Empowering Act [197] Amended: 1923
• Wanganui Borough Council Empowering Act [198]
• Wanganui Borough Council Empowering and Acquisition Act [199]
• War Regulations Continuance Act [200]
• Westport Harbour Act [201] Amended: 1912/26/79

Plus 66 acts amended

1921 [202]

• Animals Protection and Game Act [203]
• Auckland Electric-power Board Act [204] Amended: 1924/26/37/38
• Companies Temporary Empowering Act [205]
• Forests Act [206] Amended: 1925/26/48/53/60/64/65/67/70/71/72/73/76/79/81/83/87/93/94/95/96/2004/05
• Geraldine County River District Act [207] Amended: 1938
• Grey Collection Exchange Act [208]
• Hunter Gift for the Settlement of Discharged Soldiers Act [209] Amended: 1979
• Insurance Companies' Deposits Act [210] Amended: 1922/50/58/71/72/74/77/82/83/2006
• Judea Land Drainage Board Empowering Act [211]
• Loan Companies Act [212]
• Local Bodies' Finance Act [213]
• Meat-export Control Act [214] Amended: 1924
• Mortgages and Deposits Extension Act [215]
• Napier Harbour Board Enabling Act [216]
• Palmerston North Borough Loans Consolidation Act [217]
• Public Expenditure Adjustment Act [218]
• Samoa Act [219] Amended: 1923/26/27/38/47/49/51/52/53/54/56/57/59
• Tauranga Borough Council Electric Loan Empowering Act [220]
• Tolaga Bay Harbour Board Empowering Act [221]
• Treaties of Peace Extension Act [222]
• Urewera Lands Act [223]
• Waikato and King-country Counties Act [224]

Plus 49 acts amended

1922 [225]

• Administration of Justice Act [226]
• Aid to Public Works and Land Settlements Act [227]
• Amusements-tax Act [228] Amended: 1923/24
• Auckland City and Auckland Hospital Board Empowering Act [229]
• Christchurch Municipal Offices Leasing Act [230]
• Fireblight Act [231]
• Horouta District Licensing Poll Act [232]
• Hutt River Improvement and Reclamation Act [233]
• Main Highways Act [234] Amended: 1925/26/27/28/36
• Paeroa Water-supply Transfer Validation Act [235]
• Petone and Lower Hutt Gas-lighting Act [236] Amended: 1926/27/33
• Rotorua Borough Act [237] Amended: 1925
• Rural Credit Associations Act [238]
• Scaffolding and Excavation Act [239] Amended: 1924/48/51
• Sea Carriage of Goods Act [240] Amended: 1962/68/85
• Thames Harbour Act [241]
• Waimakariri River Improvement Act [242] Amended: 1926/27/30/33/70/86
• Wairau Harbour Board Empowering Act [243]
• Wairau River District Loans Act [244]
• War Disabilities Removal Act [245]
• Whangarei Borough Leasing Empowering Act [246]

Plus 50 acts amended

1923 [247]

• Apprentices Act [248] Amended: 1925/27/30/46/57/61/64/67/68/70/72/74/76/77
• Auckland Harbour Board and Takapuna Borough Council Empowering Act [249]
• Baptist Union Incorporation Act [250] Amended: 1970
• Companies Special Empowering Act [251]
• Dairy-produce Export Control Act [252] Amended: 1924/26
• Manawatu-Oroua River District Act [253] Amended: 1925/29
• Masterton Trust Lands Trustees Empowering Act [254]
• Registration of Aliens Suspension Act [255]
• Rent Restriction Continuance Act [256]
• St John's College Trust Act [257] Amended: 1957
• Stamp Duties Act Postponement Act [258]
• Wellington City Empowering and Special Rates Consolidation Act [259] Amended: 1933

Plus 35 acts amended

1924 [260]

• Acts Interpretation Act [261] Amended: 1908/20/60/62/73/79/83/86/88/94/96
• Auckland City Abattoir Act [262]
• Auckland City and Auckland Museum Empowering Act [263]
• Births and Deaths Registration Act [264] Amended: 1912/15/20/30/47/53/55/59/61/63/64/69/70/72/76/82/91/93
• Companies Empowering Act [265] Amended: 1931
• Dannevirke Hospital District Act [266]
• Engineers Registration Act [267] Amended: 1928/44/66/72/77/88/96
• Fruit Control Act [268] Amended: 1932
• Hauraki Plains County Council Empowering Act [269]
• Honey-export Control Act [270]
• Mortgages Final Extension Act [271]
• Motor-vehicles Act [272] Amended: 1927/34/36
• New Plymouth Borough and New Plymouth Harbour Board Exchange Act [273]
• New Plymouth Borough Council Empowering Act [274]
• Opotiki Hospital District Act [275]
• Poultry Act [276] Amended: 1961/75
• Rangiora Borough Valuation of Farm Lands for Rating Purposes Act [277]
• Rent Restriction Act [278]
• Rhodes Memorial Convalescent Home Act [279]
• Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunedin Empowering Act [280]
• Seddon Family Burial-ground Act [281]
• South Invercargill Borough Wards Validating Act [282]
• Spiritualist Church of New Zealand Act [283]
• Thomas Cawthron Trust Act [284] Amended: 1966/76/81/85/93
• Wanganui City Council Special Rate Empowering and Enabling Act [285]
• Wanganui City Council Vesting and Empowering Act [286] Amended: 1942
• Wanganui-Rangitikei Electric-power Board Enabling Act [287]
• Wellington City Mangahao Endowment Sale Empowering Act [288]
• Whakatane Borough Empowering Act [289]

Plus 45 acts amended

1925 [290]

• Ashley River Improvement Act [291] Amended: 1927/37
• Brunner Borough Abolition Act [292]
• Child Welfare Act [293] Amended: 1927/48/54/58/60/61/64/65
• Deteriorated Lands Act [294]
• District Courts Abolition Act [295]
• Electrical Wiremen's Registration Act [296] Amended: 1928/34
• Hutt Valley Lands Settlement Act [297] Amended: 1926/27
• Kauri-gum Control Act [298]
• Local Elections and Polls Act [299] Amended: 1908/11/13/26/32/34/41/44/46/47/50/53/56/57/58/60/61/62/63/67/68/69/70/74/77/80/82/86/88/89/91/92/94
• Marine and Power Engineers' Institute Incorporation Act [300]
• Massey Burial-ground Act [301] Amended: 1981
• Matakaoa Hospital District Act [302]
• Matamata County Council Empowering Act [303]
• Mataura Borough Valuation of Farm Lands for Rating Purposes Act [304]
• Napier Harbour Board Rating Regulation Act [305]
• Nurses and Midwives Registration Act [306] Amended: 1926/30/33/39/43/44
• Rawhiti Domain Act [307]
• Repayment of the Public Debt Act [308]
• Valuation of Land Act [309] Amended: 1908/12/20/21/26/27/33/45/64/65/67/68/70/71/72/76/78/81/85/88/89/91/94
• Wanganui City Council Empowering and Enabling Act [310]

Plus 29 acts amended

1926 [311]

• Auckland City Council Empowering Act [312]
• Eastbourne Borough Bank Account and Empowering Act [313]
• Family Allowances Act [314] Amended: 1936
• Guardianship of Infants Act [315] Amended: 1927/61
• Kaituna River District Act [316] Amended: 1959/61
• Local Government Loans Board Act [317] Amended: 1954
• Local Legislation Act [318]
• Maori Arts and Crafts Act [319]
• Mildred Elaine Smyth Divorce Act [320]
• Motor-omnibus Traffic Act [321]
• Napier Harbour Board and Napier Borough Enabling Act [322] Amended: 1949
• New Zealand Agricultural College Act [323]
• Oil in Territorial Waters Act [324]
• Peel Forest Act [325] Amended: 1927
• Petone Borough Council Empowering Act [326]
• Reserves and other Lands Disposal Act [327]
• Rural Advances Act [328]
• Scientific and Industrial Research Act [329] Amended: 1931/45/58/61/63/65/66/72/79/85/87/90
• Town-planning Act [330] Amended: 1929/48
• Tutukaka, Whangaruru, and Whananaki Harbours Control Act [331]
• Veterinary Surgeons Act [332] Amended: 1964/92
• Whangarei County Council Empowering Act [333]

Plus 56 acts amended

1927 [334]

• Dangerous Drugs Act [335] Amended: 1928/60/63
• Fertilizers Act [336] Amended: 1948
• Fungicides and Insecticides Act [337]
• Greytown Trust Lands Trustees Empowering Act [338]
• Introduction of Plants Act [339]
• Lower Hutt Borough Council Empowering Act [340]
• Makerua Drainage Board Loan Empowering Act [341]
• Massey Agricultural College Act [342] Amended: 1958
• Motor-spirits Taxation Act [343] Amended: 1928
• Napier Foreshore Act [344]
• Napier Harbour Board Loans Enabling Act 1918 Extension Act [345]
• New Zealand Institute of Horticulture Act [346]
• Newmarket Borough Council Vesting and Empowering Act [347]
• Palmerston North Library Empowering Act [348]
• Rural Intermediate Credit Act [349] Amended: 1929/31/46/54/65/78
• Seeds Importation Act [350]
• St Peter's Parish Endowment Fund Act [351]
• Summer Time Act [352] Amended: 1933
• Te Matai Road Water-race District Act [353]
• Wellington City and Suburban Districts Ambulance Transport Service Act [354]
• Wellington City and Suburban Water-supply Act [355] Amended: 1929/30/35/47
• Wellington City Exhibition Grounds Act [356] Amended: 1930
• Whakatane County Council Empowering and Loan-moneys Diversion Act [357]

Plus 44 acts amended

1928 [358]

• Auckland Transport Board Act [359] Amended: 1955/60/63
• Auckland War Memorial Museum Maintenance Act [360] Amended: 1931/45/53/63/80
• Buller County Leasing Empowering Act [361]
• Canterbury Provincial Buildings Vesting Act [362] Amended: 1988
• Church of England Empowering Act [363] Amended: 1966
• Cinematograph Films Act [364] Amended: 1929/34/53/56/60/62/67/69/70/77/80
• Hanmer Crown Leases Act [365]
• Hutt River Board Empowering Act [366]
• Johnsonville and Makara Gas-supply Act [367]
• London and New Zealand Bank, Limited Act [368]
• Lyttelton Harbour Board Loan Enabling Act [369]
• Methodist Theological College Edson Trust Extension Act [370]
• Motueka Borough Council Library Act [371]
• Music-teachers Registration Act [372]
• Napier Borough and Napier Harbour Board Enabling Act [373]
• Onerahi Water Reserve Enabling Act [374]
• Opticians Act [375] Amended: 1934/55/62/65/66
• Orchard and Garden Diseases Act [376] Amended: 1914/20/40/50
• Papanui Memorial Hall Management Act [377]
• Post and Telegraph Act [378] Amended: 1910/11/13/15/19/20/22/24/27/33/36/44/47/48/53/56/57
• Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act [379]
• Statutory Land Charges Registration Act [380] Amended: 1930/59/71/80
• Surveyors Registration Act [381]
• Thames Borough Loans Rate Adjustment Act [382]
• Timaru Borough Empowering Act [383]
• Tumu-Kaituna Drainage Board Empowering Act [384]
• Wairarapa Electric-power Board Empowering Act [385]
• Whangarei Abattoir-site Extension Act [386]

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