The constitution of New Zealand consists of a collection of statutes (Acts of Parliament), Treaties, Orders in Council, letters patent, decisions of the Courts and unwritten constitutional conventions. As with the United Kingdom, there is no one supreme document; the New Zealand constitution is not codified or, with the exception of certain electoral law, formally entrenched.
New Zealand is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system of government. This system is often known as the Westminster system, although that term is increasingly inapt given constitutional developments peculiar to New Zealand. The head of state and source of executive, judicial and legislative power in New Zealand is the monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen is represented in the Realm of New Zealand by a Governor-General.
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