The Illegal Contracts Act is a New Zealand law that manages how contracts are deemed illegal under either common law or under Statute.
Under this law, all such contracts are deemed illegal, but it gives wide discretionary powers to grant relief, including granting orders such as ordering: validation (declaring the contract to be either partially or fully enforceable) variation of the contract restitution compensation (damages)
Cases Automobile Centre (Auckland) Ltd v Facer Barsdell v Kerr Catley v Herbert Duncan v McDonald Fenton v Scotty's Car Sales Ltd H & R Block Ltd v Sanott Harding v Coburn Knyvett v Christchurch Casinos Ltd Lower Hutt City Council v Martin Mercurius Ventures Ltd v Waitakere City Council National Westminster Finance NZ Ltd v South Pacific Rent-a-Car Ltd NZI Bank Ltd v Euro-National Corp Ltd Polymer Developments Group Ltd v Tilialo Re AIC Merchant Finance Ltd (in rec) Ross v Henderson
External links Illegal Contracts Act text of the Act