The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to notify the deposit by the Government of New Zealand, on December 17, 2018, of its instrument of accession to the WIPO Copyright Treaty, adopted at Geneva on December 20, 1996.
The said instrument of accession contained a declaration according to which the accession by New Zealand shall extend to Tokelau.
The WIPO Copyright Treaty will enter into force, with respect to New Zealand, on March 17, 2019.
December 17, 2018