SEALS, PUBLIC AND PROVINCIAL

Use of the Public Seal

The Public Seal is reserved for documents which require the signature of the Governor-General. These include the following categories where its use is obligatory: (a) Proclamations; (b) Crown grants (now very rare); (c) Warrants of appointment of members of the Executive Council and Ministers' warrants of appointment; (d) Appointments of the Chief Justice and of Justices of the Supreme Court; (e) Appointments of Royal Commissions; (f) Warrants for appointments to Army, Navy, and Air Force.

Documents which merely require ministerial signature are, if necessary, sealed with the common seal of the particular Department concerned.

• Public Seal of New Zealand

• Use of the Public Seal

• Procedure for Obtaining a New Seal

• Provincial Seals

Warning

This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.

Up-to-date information can be found elsewhere in Te Ara.