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Earthquake recovery legislation: Learning from experience

Author(s) -

Sarah Kerkin

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

policy quarterly

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2324-1101

pISSN - 2324-1098

DOI - 10.26686/pq.v14i1.4757

Subject(s) - legislation , government (linguistics) , law , sequence (biology) , political science , history , forensic engineering , engineering , linguistics , philosophy , biology , genetics

The Canterbury earthquake sequence sparked a series of constitutional seismic shifts whose after-effects look set to continue long after Christchurch’s regeneration is complete. At the heart of the Canterbury earthquake legislation was a Henry VIII clause that gave the executive the power to modify almost all primary legislation for a broad range of purposes related to recovery. The Henry VIII clause was supported by privative clauses shielding government decisions from judicial review.

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