Miscellaneous provisions

ARTICLE 25. General Assembly Library to be known as the Parliamentary Library
(1) The library heretofore known as the General Assembly Library shall, as from the commencement of this Act, be known as the Parliamentary Library.

(2) The officer heretofore known as the Chief Librarian of the General Assembly Library shall be known, as from the commencement of this Act, as the Parliamentary Librarian.

(3) Subject to section 27 of this Act, all references to the General Assembly Library or to the Chief Librarian of the General Assembly Library in any other enactment or in any document whatsoever shall hereafter, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as references to the Parliamentary Library and to the Parliamentary Librarian respectively.

ARTICLE 26. United Kingdom enactments ceasing to have effect as part of the law of New Zealand
(1) As from the commencement of this Act the following enactments of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, namely,—
  1. The New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 (15 and 16 Vict, c 72); and
  2. The Statute of Westminster 1931 (22 Geo V, c 4); and
  3. The New Zealand Constitution (Amendment) Act 1947 (11 Geo VI, c 4), shall cease to have effect as part of the law of New Zealand.
(2) The provisions of sections 20, 20A, and 21 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1924 shall apply with respect to the enactments specified in subsection (1) of this section as if they were Acts of the Parliament of New Zealand that had been repealed by that subsection.

(3) Without limiting the provisions of subsection (2) of this section, it is hereby declared that the effect of section 11 of the Statute of Westminster 1931 (22 Geo V, c 4) (which section declared that the expression Colony shall not, in any Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed after the commencement of the Statute of Westminster 1931, include a Dominion or any Province or State forming part of a Dominion) shall not be affected by virtue of the Statute of Westminster 1931 ceasing, by virtue of subsection (1) of this section, to have effect as part of the law of New Zealand.

ARTICLE 27. Consequential amendments to other enactments
The enactments specified in Schedule 1 to this Act are hereby amended in the manner indicated in that Schedule.

ARTICLE 28. Repeals
(1) The enactments specified in Schedule 2 to this Act are hereby repealed.

(2) The Regulations Amendment Act 1962 is hereby consequentially repealed.

(3) Section 2(2) of the Primary Products Marketing Amendment Act 1977 is hereby consequentially repealed.

(4) Section 5 of the Civil List Amendment Act 1985 is hereby consequentially repealed.

ARTICLE 29.  Transitional and consequential provisions relating to Parliament
(1) The Parliament in being at the commencement of this Act (before the commencement of this Act called the General Assembly) shall continue in accordance with and subject to the provisions of this Act.

(2) As from the commencement of this Act, every reference to the General Assembly or to the General Assembly of New Zealand in any enactment passed before the date of commencement of this Act and in any document executed before that date shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as a reference to the Parliament of New Zealand.

(3) Subsection (2) of this section shall not apply in respect of the Acts Interpretation Act 1924.