IP/N/1/NZL/15, IP/N/1/NZL/C/8, IP/N/1/NZL/O/1, IP/N/1/NZL/P/10, IP/N/1/NZL/T/7

New Zealand

Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Amendment Act 2018

Amends the Copyright Act 1994, Patents Act 2013 and Trade Marks Act 2002 to implement New Zealand's commitments under the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership

(1) This Act comes into force on a date appointed by the Governor-General by Order in Council on the recommendation of the Minister for Trade and Export Growth. (2) One or more orders may be made bringing different provisions into force on different dates and appointing different dates for different purposes. (3) However, the date appointed for the following provisions to come into force must not be earlier than the date on which the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, done at Auckland on 4 February 2016, enters into force for New Zealand: (a) sections 4 to 8, 28, 38, 39, 40(3) and (4), and 41 to 43 (which amend the Copyright Act 1994): (b) sections 73 to 76 (which amend the Patents Act 2013). Section 2: replaced, on 26 October 2018, by section 6 of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (CPTPP) Amendment Act 2018 (2018 No 41). Section 2(1): sections 3, 9–27, 29–37, 37A–37G, 40(1), (2), (5), (6), 44(1)–(4), (9), 71, 72, 77, 89, 90(2), 91(2), and Parts 4–6, 8, 10, 11 brought into force, on 30 December 2018, by clause 2 of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Amendment Act 2018 Commencement Order 2018 (LI 2018/227).

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

https://ip-documents.info/2021/IP/NZL/21_1861_00_e.pdf