1 Short Title

• This Act may be cited as the Cook Islands Amendment Act 1967, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Cook Islands Act 1915 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

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3 Release of prisoners transferred to New Zealand

• (1) This subsection substituted section 275A(1)(a) and (b) of the principal Act.

  (2) Section 8 of the Cook Islands Amendment Act 1963 is hereby consequentially amended by repealing paragraph (b) of subsection (2).

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6 Repeals

• The following enactments are hereby repealed:

  • (a) Section 14 of the Cook Islands Amendment Act 1921:

  • (b) Section 31 of the Cook Islands Amendment Act 1957:

  • (c) So much of Schedule 2 to the Cook Islands Amendment Act 1965 as relates to section 31 of the Cook Islands Amendment Act 1957.

7 Application of Act to Cook Islands

• Whereas in accordance with Article 46 of the Constitution of the Cook Islands (as set out in Schedule 2 to the Cook Islands Constitution Amendment Act 1965) the Government of the Cook Islands has requested and consented to the enactment of a provision extending the provisions of this Act to the Cook Islands as part of the law of the Cook Islands: Be it therefore enacted as follows:

  This Act shall extend to the Cook Islands as part of the law of the Cook Islands.