Municipal Association Act 1939
Municipal Association Act 1939
Municipal Association Act 1939
Municipal Association Act 1939
Public Act |
1939 No 16 |
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Date of assent |
22 September 1939 |
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Contents
An Act to consolidate and amend certain Enactments relating to the Municipal Association of New Zealand, Incorporated.
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Short Title and commencement.
This Act may be cited as the Municipal Association Act, 1939, and, except as hereinafter provided, shall come into force on the first day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine.
2 Association incorporated.
(1)
There is hereby established a body, to be known as the Municipal Association of New Zealand, Incorporated (hereinafter referred to as the Association), which shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall be capable of holding real and personal property and of doing and suffering all that bodies corporate may do and suffer.
1932, No. 19
(2)
The Association constituted under this section is hereby declared to be the same body corporate as the Municipal Association of New Zealand, Incorporated, constituted under the Municipal Association Act, 1932.
(3)
The general functions of the Association shall be to watch over and protect the interests, rights, and privileges of its members; to take action in relation to any subject, or legislation, affecting any of its members; to procure legal opinions on matters of general interest to its members; and generally to promote the efficient carrying-out of local government so far as it affects the corporations referred to in the next succeeding section.
3 Membership of Association.
(1)
Any of the corporations referred to in the next succeeding subsection may from time to time become members or resign from membership of the Association in accordance with the rules of the Association.
(2)
The corporations to which the last preceding subsection refers are—
(a)
The corporation of any borough:
(b)
Any Town Board:
(c)
The corporation of any road district situate in the County of Eden:
(d)
Any Board, Council, or other corporation incorporated under any special enactment which, in the opinion of the Executive Committee of the Association, has functions and interests of such a nature that it can conveniently be admitted to the membership of the Association.
4 Rules of Association.
(1)
The Association may from time to time, at any meeting of the Association, make rules (not inconsistent with this Act) for all or any of the following purposes:—
(a)
For the regulation and good government of the Association and of the affairs thereof; and regulating the election of a President and Vice-Presidents and an Executive Committee and such other committees as may be deemed necessary or advisable, and the filling of extraordinary vacancies:
(b)
Regulating the keeping of the accounts of the Association, the audit thereof, and the appointment of auditors, and prescribing their qualifications:
(c)
Providing for and regulating admission to the membership of the Association and the termination of membership of the Association:
(d)
Prescribing the subscriptions, fees, or other payments, annual or otherwise, to be paid by members of the Association:
(e)
Generally for carrying into full effect the objects for which the Association is formed.
(2)
Any rules of the Association may in like manner be amended or revoked.
(3)
Rules may be made under this section prescribing different subscriptions, fees, or other payments for different members or classes of members and providing for the exemption of any member or class of members from any subscription, fee, or other payment.
(4)
No rule made under this section, and no amendment or revocation of any rule, shall come into force unless and until it is approved by the Minister of Internal Affairs.
(5)
Two copies under seal of any rules made under this section and of any amendment or revocation of any rules shall be given to the Registrar of Incorporated Societies, and shall be recorded by him.
5 Application of certain provisions of Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.
Sections thirteen to eighteen of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908, shall apply to the Association in all respects as if it were a society incorporated under that Act.
6 Officers of Association.
The Executive Committee of the Association may from time to time appoint a Secretary and such other officers and servants as it deems necessary for the efficient carrying-out of the objects of the Association, and may fix the remuneration and allowances payable to the Secretary and to the other officers and servants of the Association.
7 Payments by the Association.
(1)
The Association may pay the reasonable travelling-expenses incurred by members of the Executive Committee of the Association in carrying out any functions under this Act.
(2)
The President may, in addition to any amount payable for travelling-expenses under the last preceding subsection, be paid such annual allowance, not exceeding one hundred pounds, as the Executive Committee from time to time fixes. This subsection shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight.
8 Authority for members to pay subscriptions to Association.
Each member of the Association may from time to time out of its General Fund or Account pay to the Association any subscriptions, fees, or other moneys payable by it under this Act or under the rules of the Association, and may also pay the reasonable travelling-expenses of its representatives incurred in attending meetings or conferences of the Association.
9 Expenditure of moneys in connection with annual meeting of the Association.
The Council of any borough in which the annual meeting of the Association is held in any year may in that year, or in any earlier or later year, expend in connection with the holding of the meeting and the reception and entertainment of delegates and other persons attending the meeting such amount or amounts as the Council thinks fit, not exceeding in the aggregate a sum equal to one per centum of the total general rate struck by the Council in the year in which the meeting is held.
10 Repeals and saying. 1932, No. 19 1938, No. 3
(1)
The Municipal Association Act, 1932, and section thirteen of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1938, are hereby repealed.
(2)
All offices, elections, appointments, rules, instruments, and generally all acts of authority that originated under the enactments hereby repealed, and are subsisting or in force on the commencement of this Act shall enure for the purposes of this Act as fully and effectually as if they had originated under the corresponding provisions of this Act, and accordingly shall, where necessary, be deemed to have so originated.