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New Zealand is a unitary state with a well-developed and stable legal system based upon common law. As a British colony, New Zealand was initially subject to laws made in the UK. Since 1852 the country has had capacity to make its own laws and since 1947 this power has been essentially exclusive, a position formalised in 1986.