Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

EVIDENCE AND PROCEDURE (NEW ZEALAND) ACT 1994 - SECT 40

             (1)  Proof is not required about the provisions and coming into operation (in whole or in part) of:

                     (a)  a New Zealand Act or an Imperial Act in force in New Zealand; or

                     (b)  a regulation, rule or by‑law made, or purporting to be made, under such an Act; or

                     (c)  a Proclamation or order made, or purporting to be made, by the Governor‑General of New Zealand under such an Act; or

                     (d)  an instrument of a legislative character (for example, a rule of court) made, or purporting to be made, under such an Act, being an instrument that is required by or under a law to be published, or the making of which is required by or under a law to be notified, in the New Zealand Gazette.

             (2)  A judge, or such other person as is presiding in the proceeding, may inform himself or herself about those matters in any way that he or she thinks fit.