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Unlike many other nations, New Zealand has no single constitutional document. [1] [2] It is an uncodified constitution, sometimes referred to as an "unwritten constitution", although the New Zealand constitution is in fact an amalgamation of written and unwritten sources.
New Zealand is a unitary parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy. [4] It has no formal codified constitution; the constitutional framework consists of a mixture of various documents (including certain acts of the United Kingdom and New Zealand Parliaments), the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi, and constitutional conventions. [5]
The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 (sometimes known by its acronym, NZBORA or simply BORA) is a statute of the Parliament of New Zealand part of New Zealand's uncodified constitution [6] that sets out the rights and fundamental freedoms of anyone subject to New Zealand law as a bill of rights, [7] and imposes a legal requirement on the attorney-general to provide a report to parliament ...
New Zealand is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy, [146] although its constitution is not codified. [147] Charles III is the King of New Zealand [148] and thus the head of state. [149] The king is represented by the governor-general, whom he appoints on the advice of the prime minister. [150]
In the course of her judgement on that case, Chief Justice of New Zealand Sian Elias stated that "Māori custom according to tikanga is... part of the values of the New Zealand common law." [7] Justice Joe Williams has written and studied tikanga and the New Zealand law. In his future vision there is a phase "when tikanga Māori fuses with New ...
The culture of New Zealand is a synthesis of indigenous Māori, colonial British, and other cultural influences.The country's earliest inhabitants brought with them customs and language from Polynesia, and during the centuries of isolation, developed their own Māori and Moriori cultures.
Culture wars. New Zealand’s voters in October stripped Hipkins’ Labour Party of 31 seats to almost half their previous stature in the country’s single-chamber parliament – a crushing ...
The constitutional crisis led the incoming Labour government to review New Zealand's constitutional structures, which resulted in the Constitution Act 1986. [81] The new Constitution Act rationalised New Zealand's legal framework by revoking the New Zealand Constitution Act 1952 and the Statute of Westminster.