Online HTML Legislation is official
“Official online legislation now includes legislation in HTML format”, Chief Parliamentary Counsel David Noble has announced. “This is the format that people see first when they search for Acts or Legislative Instruments on the New Zealand Legislation website at www.legislation.govt.nz.People can be confident that they are reading authoritative versions of legislation.”
Previously, only online PDF versions with the New Zealand Coat of Arms (or printouts of those PDFs) had official status, together with printed legislation.“Official legislation is taken by the courts to correctly set out the text, without further proof”, Mr Noble said.
Both HTML and PDF versions are derived from the same XML-based drafting and publishing system used by the PCO that underlies the NZ Legislation website.For more information about official versions of legislation please refer to www.legislation.govt.nz.
David Noble
Chief Parliamentary Counsel
Parliamentary Counsel Office
5 January 2016
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Gillian McIlraith 04 817 6707
