Public Access to Legislation Project
Welcome to the Public Access to Legislation (PAL) Project home page.
Read the media statement from the Attorney-General, 16 January 2008.
Read more about the New Zealand Legislation website.
The PAL Project, designed to improve the way in which New Zealand legislation is made available to the public, was completed in January 2008. It has involved the implementation of a new XML-based drafting and publishing system within the PCO, and the provision of the New Zealand Legislation website. The new website provides free access to Acts, regulations, Bills, and Supplementary Order Papers.
The PAL Project was concluded with the undertaking of a Post Implementation Review (PIR), published in February 2009, as required by the SSC/Treasury Guidelines for Managing and Monitoring Major IT Projects. More on the PIR
The legislation on the website is at present an unofficial version of New Zealand legislation. The PCO will now undertake a process of "officialising" the legislation, so that the website can ultimately become an official source of New Zealand legislation. This process is expected to take around three years. See Making online legislation official on the New Zealand Legislation website.
Free access to New Zealand Legislation
- New Zealand Legislation website
- Acts
- Regulations
- Bills
- Supplementary Order Papers
- See About this site for more information
- New Zealand Parliament website
- Bills introduced since the start of 2003, and earlier Bills still before the House, in PDF format
- Supplementary Order Papers relating to Bills currently before the House, in PDF format
- Knowledge Basket
- Bills and Supplementary Order Papers
- Acts: original versions (amendments not incorporated), and reprints published since 1 November 2002
- Regulations: original versions (amendments not incorporated), and reprints published since 1 October 2003