Whereas staff numbers do not allow the office of the District Court at Rangiora to be open from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. on every day that is not a Court holiday:
Now therefore, I, Richard John Barker, Minister
for Courts, acting pursuant to Rule 20 (3) of the District Courts Rules 1992*, hereby direct that the office of
the District Court held at Rangiora shall be open from 9.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. on every day that is not a Court holiday.
The direction in respect of the office hours of the District Court at Rangiora notified on the 2nd day of July 2001† is hereby revoked.
Dated at Wellington this 7th day of December 2005.
RICK BARKER, Minister for Courts.
*S.R. 1992/109
†New Zealand Gazette, 5 July 2001, No. 69, page 1624