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The independence of New Zealand is a matter of continued academic and social debate.New Zealand has no fixed date of independence from the United Kingdom; instead, political independence came about as a result of New Zealand's evolving constitutional status.
The constitution of New Zealand is the sum of laws and ... which allowed a measured amount of legal independence. Under the Act, the New Zealand Parliament could pass ...
The New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 (15 & 16 Vict. c. 72) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that granted self-government to the Colony of New Zealand. It was the second such Act, the previous 1846 Act not having been fully implemented. [1] The purpose of the Act was to have constitutional independence from Britain. [2]
New Zealand believes that if the Cook Islands were to become a sovereign state, an independence referendum and constitutional change would occur. The eligibility of New Zealand citizenship would have to change. [133] Niue. New Zealand has stated that Niue's free association is "a status distinct from that of full independence". [135]
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.
The New Zealand Constitution Amendment (Request and Consent) Act 1947, requested that the Parliament of the United Kingdom amend the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852, and consented to such changes (as required by the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1947). This is the only example of the Parliament of New Zealand requesting the Parliament ...
The Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand (Māori: He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni), sometimes referred to as He Whakaputanga, is a document signed by a number of Māori chiefs in 1835, proclaimed the sovereign independence of New Zealand prior to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.
The Statute of Westminster was the product of the Balfour Declaration of 1926, issued by the 1926 Imperial Conference.The declaration came following the formal end of the First World War with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles (which New Zealand signed) [8] in 1919 and Irish independence in 1922. [9]