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| | The Governor-General of New Zealand - Constitution of New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | New Zealand has a constitution, but it is not set out in one all-inclusive document – it consists of a series of formal legal documents, decisions of the courts and the practices we describe as conventions. |
 | | This Act recognises that the Queen, the Sovereign in right of New Zealand, is the Head of State of New Zealand and that the Governor-General appointed by her is her representative. |
 | | As Head of State, Queen Elizabeth’s formal New Zealand title is “Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith”. |
| www.gg.govt.nz /role/constofnz.htm (372 words) |
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