The New Zealand Legislation website provides free public access to unofficial versions of New Zealand statutes (Public, Local, and Private Acts) and Statutory Regulations. You can search and browse this material free of charge.

An update statement, which includes the date and time that the website was last updated, is provided on the Home page.
They aim to make legislation (including Bills and Supplementary Order Papers) available on this website in accordance with the following timeframes:

• new Acts: within five working days of Royal assent
• new Regulations: the day after the date they are notified in the Gazette
• Bills:
  • new Bills introduced into the House: the day after introduction
  • subsequent versions: the day after the printed version is made available to the House
• Supplementary Order Papers: the day after they have been circulated to Members of Parliament.

Current Acts and Regulations are updated with amendments as soon as possible after the amendments are enacted/made. We aim to incorporate amendments within three weeks after the amendment comes into force. However, if an amendment is to come into force more than 90 days after enactment/making, they aim to incorporate the amendment by the date the amendment comes into force. Their ability to achieve these timeframes may be affected from time to time by the number or complexity of the amendments.

Each Act or Regulation states when amendments were last incorporated. If an amendment has been enacted/made, but not yet incorporated into the principal enactment, an alert message will appear under the "See related information and/or uncompiled amendments" item for that principal enactment. They aim to make this alert message available on the website within five working days of the publication of the amendment on the website. Thier ability to meet this timeframe may be affected from time to time by the number or complexity of amendments.