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legislation-nz from thecolab-ai/.skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add thecolab-ai/.skills/legislation-nz@git:20260912.a097ef8

Pins git:20260912.a097ef8 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: thecolab-ai/.skills
Path: skills/legislation-nz/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 3
Latest version: git:20260912.a097ef8, committed Sep 12, 2026
First version recorded: Jul 5, 2026
Size: 4,712 bytes
Repository stars: 33
License: MIT

Resolves, searches, and checks New Zealand Acts, Bills, secondary legislation, sections, point-in-time versions, and update feeds from official legislation.govt.nz and PCO sources. Use when a task needs NZ legislation text, exact section citations, current in-force status, amendments since a date, current Bills, or source caveats.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# New Zealand Legislation

## Goal

Use official New Zealand Legislation sources to resolve legislation records, quote current or point-in-time sections, list versions, inspect current Bills, and check recent publication/update feeds.

## Quick triage

Use this when:
- A user cites an Act or regulation by year/number and needs exact text
- A finding needs a current "as at" section citation from legislation.govt.nz
- A workflow needs to check versions or amendments since a date
- A user asks for Bills currently before Parliament
- A task needs to distinguish keyless web/XML access from the keyed PCO API

Do not use this for:
- Legal advice or statutory interpretation beyond quoting/checking source text
- Non-NZ legislation
- Unofficial commentary, case law, or policy guidance

## CLI

```bash
python3 skills/legislation-nz/scripts/cli.py search "Grocery Industry" --type act --json
python3 skills/legislation-nz/scripts/cli.py get-act 2003/52 --json
python3 skills/legislation-nz/scripts/cli.py get-section 2003/52 9C --json
python3 skills/legislation-nz/scripts/cli.py get-section 1993/105 "Schedule 7" --json
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add thecolab-ai/.skills/legislation-nz@sha256:74390731816133a7

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260912.a097ef8, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_x2bo557kltt43k7e.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_x2bo557kltt43k7e)

1 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 5, 2026 and Sep 12, 2026, about one every 34 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260912.a097ef8 latest	2026-09-12	a097ef8	4,712 B	A	view · diff
git:20260719.1748a98	2026-07-19	1748a98	3,956 B	A	view · diff
git:20260705.a4019d0	2026-07-05	a4019d0	3,157 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4712 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

thecolab-ai/.skills · 33 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-12 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_x2bo557kltt43k7e
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thecolab-ai/.skills/legislation-nz
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/74390731816133a7f249fcd113311e6d27c4103a8e30eac85f6984b7292f3d57

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