Legislation 100% open

New Zealand

New Zealand is ranked #1 for this dataset
New Zealand's Index ranking for legislation has no change from #1 in 2013

What data is expected?

This data category requires all national laws and statutes available to be available online, although it is not a requirement that information on legislative behaviour e.g. voting records is available.

What data is available

  •   Does the data exist? Yes
  •   Is data in digital form? Yes
  •   Publicly available? Yes published by Parlimentary Counsel Office)
  •   Is the data available for free? Yes
  •   Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
  •   Is the data machine readable? Yes (HTML,PDF,XML)
  •   Available in bulk? Yes
  •   Openly licensed? Yes(Here)
  •   Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes

Details

Legislation is available in machine readable format (XML) and in bulk (all publicly available legislation) here: http://www.legislation.govt.nz/subscribe

Contributors

Reviewers

  • Alex Sadleir
  • Jonathan Hunt

Submitters

  • Mark Heseltine