New Zealand Acts

LEGISLATION ACT 2019 - SECT 53

53 Extension of power to approve or prescribe forms

1 This section applies to a power (
"power A" ) conferred by legislation to approve or prescribe a form used to supply information that must or may be supplied to any person, or made available, for any purpose.

2 Power A includes a power (
"power B" ) to do any 1 or more of the following:

a) identify the information to be supplied or made available:

b) approve or prescribe a method, format, or medium for supplying information or making information available:

c) if power A is a power to prescribe a form, authorise a prescribed person to approve or prescribe a form or a method, format, or medium for supplying information or making information available.

3 Power B may be exercised in place of, or as well as, power A.

4 Information supplied or made available under power B complies with legislation that refers to, requires, or otherwise operates with the form as if the information had been supplied or made available in an approved or a prescribed form (and the legislation applies, with all necessary modifications, accordingly).

5 Subsection (6) applies if—

a) power A is itself a power to make secondary legislation; and

b) secondary legislation made under power A (and in reliance on the power B referred to in subsection (2)(c)) authorises a person to approve or prescribe a form and, in doing so, to determine the information to be supplied or made available; and

c) the form, rather than the secondary legislation, will identify the information to be supplied or made available.

6 If this subsection applies,—

a) the instrument by which the person approves or prescribes the form is secondary legislation (see Part 3 for publication requirements); and

b) the secondary legislation referred to in subsection (5)(b) must contain a statement to that effect.

Note: 1995 No 16 s 87B(2) ; 2002 No 35 s 37 ; 2008 No 91 s 154 ; 2013 No 69 ss 543(1)(e), 544(1)(a), 546(1)(g), (i), 548(1)(i)

History: Section 53(1): amended, on 25 March 2021, by section 4(2) of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).   Section 53(2): amended, on 25 March 2021, by section 4(2) of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).     Section 53(2)(c): amended, on 25 March 2021, by section 4(2) of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).     Section 53(3): replaced, on 25 March 2021, by section 4(2) of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).     Section 53(4): amended, on 25 March 2021, by section 4(2) of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).     Section 53(5): inserted, on 25 March 2021, by section 4(2) of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).     Section 53(6): inserted, on 25 March 2021, by section 4(2) of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).