Editing Bill of Rights 1689 (section)

===New Zealand===
The Bill of Rights is part of the laws of New Zealand.<ref name="Bill">{{citation |last=Elizabeth II |title=Royal Succession Bill |url=http://legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2013/0099/latest/DLM5025805.html |year=2013 |at=S.10, 11, 12 |place=Wellington |publisher=Queen's Printer |quote=The Bill of Rights 1688 (1 Will and Mar Sess 2, c 2) continues to be part of the laws of New Zealand... The Act of Settlement 1700 (12 and 13 Will 3, c 2) continues to be part of the laws of New Zealand... On the changeover, the Royal Marriages Act 1772 ceases to be part of the laws of New Zealand. |access-date=18 July 2013}}</ref> The Act was invoked in the 1976 case of ''[[Fitzgerald v Muldoon and Others]]'',<ref>{{cite web |title=The Constitutional Setting |url=http://www.ssc.govt.nz/display/document.asp?docid=4277&pageno=3 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016073216/http://www.ssc.govt.nz/display/document.asp?docid=4277 |archive-date=16 October 2008 |publisher=States Services Commission, New Zealand}}</ref> which centred on the purporting of newly appointed Prime Minister [[Robert Muldoon]] that he would advise the [[Governor-General]] to abolish a [[superannuation]] scheme established by the New Zealand Superannuation Act 1974, without new legislation. Muldoon felt that the dissolution would be immediate and he would later introduce a bill in parliament to retroactively make the abolition legal. This claim was challenged in court and the [[Chief Justice]] declared that Muldoon's actions were illegal as they had violated Article&nbsp;1 of the Bill of Rights, which provides "that the pretended power of dispensing with laws or the execution of laws by regal authority ... is illegal."<ref>{{cite web |title=The legitimacy of judicial review of executive decision-making |url=http://www.lawsociety.org.nz/publications_and_submissions/lawtalk/2010_issues/lawtalk,_issue_743/the_legitimacy_of_judicial_review_of_executive_decision-making |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100204112322/http://www.lawsociety.org.nz/publications_and_submissions/lawtalk/2010_issues/lawtalk,_issue_743/the_legitimacy_of_judicial_review_of_executive_decision-making |archive-date=4 February 2010 |publisher=New Zealand Law Society}}</ref>