Statute backlog concern
The backlog of unprinted new statutes is a “severe inconvenience” to lawyers, according to an Auckland District Law Society Council member, Mr C. Nicholson, Q.C. Of 175 laws passed last year, he said, more than 100 were still not available from the Government Printer. Mr Nicholson said that laws should not be put into effect unless the public and their representatives had ready and ordinary access to them. He was greatly concerned because the very essence of the law, if passed, was that it should be readily available at least by the date it came into force, or soon afterwards. There was a real danger that, because/ of the nonavailability .of an. pct, law-, yers mights proceed on the basis of old legislation. If a copy of an act was not available, lawyers had to get in touch with the Law Society to get one from Wellington. .
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Press, 3 February 1981, Page 25
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