Global Innovation Policy Center

March 15, 2017

New Zealand


Primary Sources

  • Commerce Act 1986 (reprint as at 21 February 2014) (2014)
  • Copyright (Border Protection) Regulations 1994 (reprinted as at 29 September 2003) (2003)
  • Copyright (Border Protection) Regulations 1994, Amendment No. 1 (1996)
  • Copyright (General Matters) Amendment Regulations 1998 (1998)
  • Copyright (General Matters) Amendment Regulations 2003 (2003)
  • Copyright (General Matters) Regulations 1995 (reprinted as at 7 October 2011) (2011)
  • Copyright (General Matters) Regulations 1995, Amendment No. 1 (1996)
  • Copyright (Infringing File Sharing and Cellular Mobile Networks) Order 2013 (2013)
  • Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act 2008 (reprinted as at 31 October 2008) (2008)
  • Copyright (Parallel Import Notice Fee) Regulations 1995 (1995)
  • Copyright (Parallel Importing of Films) Amendment Act 2013 (2013)
  • Copyright (Removal of Prohibition on Parallel Importing) Amendment Act 1998 (1998)
  • Copyright Act 1994 (reprinted as at 1 March 2016) (2016)
  • Copyright Act Commencement Order 2000 (2000)
  • Copyright Amendment Act 1996 (1996)
  • Copyright Amendment Act 1999 (1999)
  • Copyright Amendment Act Commencement Order 1996 (1996)
  • Criminal Procedure (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2013 (2013)
  • Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (reprint as at 1 January 2014) (2014)
  • Crown Proceedings Act 1950 (reprint as at 18 July 2013) (2013)
  • Customs and Excise Act 1996 (reprinted as at February 15, 2014) (2014)
  • Designs Act 1953 (reprinted as at 13 May 2016) (2016)
  • Designs Amendment Act 1996 (1996)
  • Designs Amendment Act 2010 (2010)
  • Designs Amendment Regulations 1999 (1999)
  • Designs Amendment Regulations 2011 (2011)
  • Designs Regulations 1954 (reprint as at 19 April 2011) (2011)
  • Designs Regulations 1954, Amendment No. 10 (1987)
  • Designs Regulations 1954, Amendment No. 2 (1975)
  • Disputes Tribunals Act 1988 (2013)
  • Fair Trading Act 1986 (reprinted as at 23 April 2014) (2014)
  • Fair Trading Amendment Act 1994 (1994)
  • Fair Trading Amendment Act 2013 (2013)
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  • Medicines Act 1981 (reprint at at 5 August 2013) (2013)
  • Medicines Amendment Act 1994 (1994)
  • Patents (Transitional Applications) Regulations 1994 (1994)
  • Patents Act 2013 (reprinted as at 13 May 2016) (2016)
  • Patents Act Commencement Order 1954 (1954)
  • Patents Amendment Act 1992 (1992)
  • Patents Amendment Act 1994 (1994)
  • Patents Amendment Act 1996 (1996)
  • Patents Amendment Act 1999 (1999)
  • Patents Amendment Act 2002 (2002)
  • Patents Amendment Regulations 1999 (1999)
  • Patents Regulations 1954 (reprint as at 1 July 2013) (2013)
  • Patents Regulations 1954, Amendment No. 2 (1972)
  • Patents Regulations 1954, Amendment No. 3 (1975)
  • Patents Regulations 2014 (2014)
  • Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Convention Order 2012 (2012)
  • Privacy Act 1993 (reprint as at 1 January 2014) (2014)
  • Trade Mark Amendment Regulations 2012 (2012)
  • Trade Marks (Border Protection and Transitional Applications) Amendment Regulations 1999 (1999)
  • Trade Marks (International Registration) Regulations 2012 (2012)
  • Trade Marks Act 2002 (reprinted as at 13 May 2016) (2016)
  • Trade Marks Amendment Act 1999 (1999)
  • Trade Marks Amendment Act 2011 (reprint as at 29 April 2013) (2011)
  • Trade Marks Amendment Act 2011 Commencement Order 2011 (2011)
  • Trade Marks Amendment Act 2011 Commencement Order 2013 (2013)
  • Trade Marks Regulations 2003 (reprint as at 29 April 2013) (2013)
  • Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Amendment Bill (133-3), 8 November 2016.

Secondary Sources

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