New Zealand Acts

LEGISLATION ACT 2019 - SECT 16

16 References to specific gender or kind of person include others

1 Words denoting a gender include every other gender.

2 Words denoting a natural person by referring to a gender (for example, he or she) or words referring to persons generally (for example, someone or people) include a corporation sole, a body corporate, and an unincorporated body if capable of referring to a corporation sole, a body corporate, or an unincorporated body.

3 Words denoting a corporation sole, a body corporate, or an unincorporated body include a natural person if capable of referring to a natural person.

Note: 1999 No 85 s 31 ; Acts Interpretation Act 1901 ss 2C, 23(a) (Aust); Acts Interpretation Act 1915 s 26(d), (e) (SA)