Although anti-discrimination laws and laws regarding civil union and same-sex marriage apply in New Zealand, these do not apply in Niue, Tokelau or the Cook Islands due to their separate legislatures. Male homosexual acts are criminalised in the Cook Islands, although the law is not actively enforced. In Niue and Tokelau the sodomy laws were repealed in 2007, when sections that mention buggery were repealed.
