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User:David Nind/Projects/New Zealand Legislation

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Current status: Being worked in intermittently

Phases

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Phase 1: Get all current New Zealand Acts into Wikidata

Phase 2: Get all historic and repealed Acts into Wikidata

Tasks

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  • Category page on Wikipedia (Category:New Zealand Statutes) - make sure all entries are instances of a New Zealand statute 25 June 2019
  • Update details for all items that have Wikidata entries
  • Create a list of all statutes from the New Zealand legislation website
  • Model Wikidata properties for Acts
  • Reconcile with what is in Wikidata using OpenRefine* Add the NZ Law Style Guide to Wikidata and the OpenLibrary
  • Add NZ LII identifier (similar to Australian LII identifier)?
  • Reprinted Acts - include as editions, for an example see Social Security Act 2018 (Q98837264)
  • Commons Categories for NZ Acts - organise so easier to access

Questions to answer

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  • enacted vs Royal assent - which properties/qualifiers to use when

Notes

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When started in June 2019 about 113 Acts were categorised as instances of New Zealand statutes:

  • 150 Acts were recorded after checking whether Wikipedia (Category:New Zealand Statutes) entries were instances of a New Zealand statute.

Display a list of instances of New Zealand statutes:

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Reference information

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List of Wikidata properties for an Act (WIP)

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Property What to enter Example Notes
description
aliases
instance of (P31) New Zealand statute (Q18336255)
title (P1476) the title of the Act New Zealand Institute Act 1867
country (P17) New Zealand (Q664)
applies to jurisdiction (P1001) Colony of New Zealand (Q5148518)

Dominion of New Zealand (Q2594990)

main subject (P921)
country of origin (P495) New Zealand (Q664)
language of work or name (P407) English (Q1860)
point in time (P585) Enter the date of enactment
significant event (P793) enacted (Q101753155)

coming into force (Q490812)

repealed (Q62520555)

enacted (or Royal assent?)

find equivalent of amended by Add qualifiers as appropriate: point in time section, verse, paragraph, or clause e.g. s 2(1)

full work available at URL (P953) New Zealand legislation link (mark rank as preferred)

NZLII link (to the landing page for the document, not the actual PDF)

legislated by (P467) New Zealand Parliament (Q1520966)
amended by (P2567) QID of the Act Add qualifiers:

point in time effective date (check if there is a specific commencement date in the Act)

repealed by (P2568) QID of the Act Add qualifiers:

point in time effective date section, verse, paragraph, or clause e.g. s 2(1)

legal citation of this text (P1031) See the New Zealand Law Style Guide

MOS?

document file on Wikimedia Commons (P996)
repeals (P3148) QID of the Act that this repeals Add qualifiers:

point in time effective date

maintained by (P126) QID of the organisation that administers the Act For later Acts, this is included in the Act
enacted date (P7589)
law identifier (P8550) 31 Vic 1867 No 36

1997, No. 31

Wikisource index page URL (P1957)
New Zealand Legislation ID (P11218) part of URL from legislation.govt.nz that acts as an identifier act/private/1997/0002/latest/contents replace the DLM number with contents (for latest version)