Open AccessIn Search of Consensus: New Zealand’s Electoral Act 1956 and its Constitutional Legacy.
Author(s) -
Andrew Geddis
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of new zealand studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102
0eISSN - 2324-3740
pISSN - 1176-306X
DOI - 10.26686/jnzs.v0ins28.5431
Subject(s) - key (lock) , process (computing) , political science , law , public administration , law and economics , electoral reform , sociology , democracy , computer science , politics , computer security , operating system
New Zealand’s Electoral Act 1956, and in particular the entrenched (or “reserved”) provisions it introduced into the country’s legal framework, has long represented something of a constitutional oddity. In reserving certain key aspects of our electoral process, the 1956 Act purported to stop future Parliaments from altering these except by following a particular, and more demanding, process of enactment.