New Zealand: Polity Style: 1841-1907

3 May 1841	the islands of New Zealand and adjacent islands are separated from New South Wales, and constituted and erected into a separate colony on 3 May 1841, the date of issuance of a proclamation by Governor of New Zealand in Auckland, publishing the letters patent issued by command of the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 16 Nov 1840 under an act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom (House of Commons on 29 Jul 1840, House of Lords on 6 Aug 1840, received royal assent on 7 Aug 1840) (UK Statutes, 1840, pp. 346-347; New Zealand Archives, Constitutional papers, R21434434; New Zealand Journal (London), No. 40, 31 Jul 1841, pp. 186-187; British Parliamentary Papers, 1842, 28:103-104; New Zealand Gazette, No. 13, 13 May 1841, p. 1; New Zealand Gazette, No. 1, Supplement B, 7 Jul 1841, p. 1) [1]
3 May 1841 - 25 Sep 1907	Colony of New Zealand
26 Sep 1907	the designation of New Zealand is changed from the Colony of New Zealand to the Dominion of New Zealand on 26 Sep 1907, the date appointed by a proclamation issued by command of the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 9 Sep 1907 (New Zealand Gazette, Extra, No. 84, 26 Sep 1907, p. 2901)

Full title: An Act to continue until the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, and to extend, the Provisions of an Act to provide for the Administration of Justice in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, and for the more effectual Government thereof, and for other Purposes relating thereto.