Supreme Court Act 2003


The Supreme Court Act 2003 was an Act of the Parliament of New Zealand which created the Supreme Court of New Zealand as the country's court of final appeal, and which consequentially abolished appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the United Kingdom. The Act was repealed on 1 March 2017 and replaced by the Senior Courts Act 2016.

Background

Purpose

Section 3 of the Act states its purpose: