Statutes Amendment Act 1950
Statutes Amendment Act 1950
Statutes Amendment Act 1950
Statutes Amendment Act 1950
Public Act |
1950 No 91 |
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Date of assent |
1 December 1950 |
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Contents
An Act to Amend Certain Enactments of the General Assembly of New Zealand.
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.
This Act may be cited as the Statutes Amendment Act, 1950.
Adhesive Stamps
2 Regulations to allow repurchase of unused postage stamps.
1939, No. 10
Section eleven of the Adhesive Stamps Act, 1939, is hereby amended by omitting from subsection one the words “and destroyed, spoiled, or wasted by accident or error”
.
Auckland University College
3 Unauthorized expenditure of Council.
The Auckland University College Act, 1882, is hereby amended by adding the following section:—
“27
1882, No. 3 (Local)
The Council may in any year expend out of the general fund of the College for purposes not authorized by any law for the time being in force any sum or sums not exceeding in the aggregate five hundred pounds.”
Births and Deaths Registration
4 Consequences of variation, reversal, or discharge of adoption order.
(1)
Subsection four of section twenty-seven of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, is hereby amended by omitting the words “this section relates”
, and substituting the words “the foregoing provisions of this section relate”
.
(2)
Section twenty-seven of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection five, the following subsections:—
“(5a)
Whenever an order is made varying, reversing, or discharging any adoption order, the Registrar of the Court in which the order is made as aforesaid shall forthwith send a copy of the order to the Registrar-General, who shall cause a memorial of the order of variation, reversal, or discharge to be made on—
“(a)
The original entry of birth relating to the child to whom the order relates, and the duplicate of that entry; and
“(b)
The entry of re-registration in respect of that child made under subsection three of this section, and the duplicate of that entry.
“(5b)
In the case of the variation of an order of adoption, the Registrar-General may, if he considers it expedient so to do, cause the particulars as to the birth of the child as so varied to be re-registered in the manner provided by subsection three of this section.
“(5c)
Whenever a certified copy of the entry of birth of any child in respect of whom an adoption order has been reversed or discharged is required for any purpose, and no other adoption order is for the time being in force in respect of that child, the Registrar or the Registrar-General, as the case may be, shall supply a certified copy of the original entry of birth omitting the memorial mentioned in subsection two of this section and also omitting the memorial of the reversal or discharge of the adoption order; and every such certified copy, if otherwise correct, shall be deemed to be a true copy of the entry:
“Provided that, in any case where the applicant certifies and the Registrar or Registrar-General is satisfied that the memorials on the original entry of birth are material for the purpose for which the certified copy is required, the Registrar or Registrar-General may issue the certified copy of that entry including the memorials:
“Provided also that, in any case where the applicant certifies and the Registrar-General is satisfied that the re-registration entry made under subsection three of this section is material for the purpose for which the certified copy is required, the Registrar or the Registrar-General may issue a copy of that entry including the memorial.”
Canterbury Agricultural College
5 Repeal.
1930, No. 31
Subsection three of section twenty-one of the Canterbury Agricultural College Act, 1930, is hereby repealed.
6 Unauthorized expenditure of Board of Governors.
Section twenty-eight of the Canterbury Agricultural College Act, 1930, is hereby amended by omitting the words “one hundred pounds”
, and substituting the words “five hundred pounds”
.
Canterbury University College
7 Unauthorized expenditure of Council.
1933, No. 27
Section thirty-one of the Canterbury University College Act, 1933, is hereby amended by omitting the words “one hundred pounds”
, and substituting the words “five hundred pounds”
.
Electric Power Boards
8 Section 7 of Electric Power Boards Amendment Act, 1928 (as to cost of installations), amended.
Section seven of the Electric Power Boards Amendment Act, 1928, is hereby amended by omitting from subsection one the words “thirty pounds”
, and substituting the words “sixty pounds”
.
Fisheries
9 Saving of Orders in Council, &c., under repealed enactments.
Section eleven of the Fisheries Amendment Act, 1948, is hereby amended as from the passing of that Act by adding the following subsection:—
1948, No. 11
“(3)
All Orders in Council, orders, regulations, appointments, licences, permits, and generally all acts of authority that originated under any of the enactments repealed by this section, and are subsisting or in force on the passing of this Act, shall enure for the purposes of the principal Act as fully and effectually as if they had originated under the provisions of this section, and accordingly shall, where necessary, be deemed to have so originated. All matters and proceedings commenced under the said enactments, and pending or in progress on the passing of this Act, may be continued, completed, or enforced under this section.”
Forests
10 Power to acquire land for forestry purposes.
1949, No. 19
Section fifteen of the Forests Act, 1949, is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (b) of subsection one the words “for the growth of trees and other plants”
, and substituting the words “for the establishment, culture, growth, protection, maintenance, and management of trees and other plants; for the utilization of forest produce; for administrative, industrial, residential, or storage uses in connection with State forest land or forest produce; for quarantine grounds or quarantine depots;”
.
11 Application of timber royalties.
Section seventeen of the Forests Act, 1949, is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:—
“(6)
For the purposes of this section and of the corresponding provisions of any former Acts, the term ‘road’ shall include and be deemed always to have included any route over any land which is maintained or is intended to be maintained for the transport of timber from State forest land.”
Harbours
12 Amending provisions as to constitution of Havelock Harbour Board.
1950, No. 34
That part of the First Schedule to the Harbours Act, 1950, which relates to the Havelock Harbour Board is hereby amended as from the commencement of that Act by omitting from the second column of that Schedule the words “Kenepuru Riding”
, and substituting the words “Pelorus Sound Riding”
.
Juries
13 Time for preparation of jury books.
(1)
Sections forty-three and forty-six of the Juries Act, 1908, are hereby amended by omitting from each of those sections the words “fourteenth day of May”
, and substituting in each case the words “first day of December”
.
1949, No. 51
(2)
The last preceding subsection and section twenty-nine of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1949, shall apply and be deemed always to have applied for the purposes of the annual preparation of the jury lists and jury books in the year nineteen hundred and fifty and each subsequent year.
(3)
The jury books required by section forty-three of the Juries Act, 1908, to have been published before the fourteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, shall continue to be used till the first day of December, nineteen hundred and fifty; and accordingly for the purposes of sections forty-three, fifty, seventy, eighty-two, and one hundred and seventy-three of the principal Act the period commencing on the said fourteenth day of May and ending immediately before the said first day of December shall be deemed to be one year.
Justices of the Peace
14 Accused person committed for sentence not to be admitted to bail unless the Court so directs.
Section one hundred and eighty-one of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (e) of subsection two, and substituting the following paragraph:—
“(e)
Notwithstanding anything in this or any other Act, the accused shall not be admitted to bail unless the committing Court so directs. In all other respects, all proceedings relating to a commitment for trial shall apply, as far as may be practicable, to a commitment for sentence:
“Provided that no person shall be bound over to give evidence on any commitment for sentence unless the committing Court otherwise orders”
15 Power of constable or other person executing warrant of arrest to enter premises.
Section two hundred and sixty-eight of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection one, the following subsection:—
“(1A)
For the purposes of executing the warrant, the person to whom it is directed may at any time enter on any premises, by force if necessary, if he has reasonable cause to believe that the person against whom it is issued is on those premises:
“Provided that, if the person executing the warrant is not a constable in uniform and any person in actual occupation of the premises requires him to produce evidence of his authority, he shall, before entering on the premises,—
“(a)
If he is a constable, produce the warrant or his badge or other evidence that he is a constable:
“(b)
If he is not a constable, produce the warrant.”
Land Drainage
16 Annual allowance to Chairman of Land Drainage Board.
The Land Drainage Act, 1908, is hereby amended by inserting, after section eleven, the following section:—
“11A
“(1)
The Chairman may be paid such annual allowance, not exceeding fifty pounds, out of the funds of the Board as the Board from time to time fixes, but no alteration in the amount of that allowance shall take effect during the term of office of any Chairman.
“(2)
For the purposes of this section a person reappointed as Chairman shall be deemed to be a new Chairman.”
Licensing
17 Former holders of wine sellers’ permits in Invercargill and Masterton Licensing Trust Districts may obtain wine sellers’ licences for limited period.
(1)
This section shall be read together with and deemed part of the Licensing Act, 1908 (in this section referred to as the principal Act).
Serial No. 1942/186 (as amended by Serial No. 1943/122, Reg. 3)
(2)
This section shall apply to every person who, on or at any time after the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, was the holder of a wine seller’s permit, being a permit issued under the Licensing Act Emergency Regulations 1942 (No. 2), in respect of any premises situated in the Invercargill Licensing Trust District as now defined by the Invercargill Licensing Trust Act, 1950, or in the Masterton Licensing Trust District constituted by the Masterton Licensing Trust Act, 1947.
1950, No. 33 1947, No. 35 1948, No. 74
(3)
Subject to the provisions of this section, any person to whom this section applies may apply for and be granted a wine seller’s licence, in accordance with section sixty-nine of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1948, in respect of any premises situated in the district in which the wine seller’s permit was held by that person as aforesaid.
(4)
No wine seller’s licence shall be granted or renewed under this section in respect of any period after the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and fifty-five.
(5)
No renewal of any licence granted to any person under this section, and no licence in substitution therefor, shall be granted to any other person, except in any of the cases referred to in sections one hundred and thirty to one hundred and thirty-six of the principal Act (which relate to the death, bankruptcy, marriage, and insanity of licensees).
(6)
Nothing in sections one hundred and seventeen to one hundred and twenty-six of the principal Act (which relate to the transfer of licences and the continuance of forfeited licences) shall apply to any licence granted under this section.
(7)
Every application for a licence under this section, and every application for the renewal of any such licence, shall be made—
(a)
In the case of an application relating to premises situated in the Invercargill Licensing Trust District, to the Licensing Committee for the Awarua Licensing District:
(b)
In the case of an application relating to premises situated in the Masterton Licensing Trust District, to the Licensing Committee for the licensing district whose boundary is nearest to the premises,—
and the Licensing Committee to which the application is so made shall have jurisdiction to deal with the application in all respects as if the Committee had jurisdiction over the district in which the premises are situated.
(8)
Every application for the grant of a licence under this section shall be dealt with as if it were an application for the renewal of a licence under section one hundred and six of the principal Act, and for the purposes of this subsection the provisions of the principal Act shall, as far as they are applicable and with the necessary modifications, apply accordingly as if the applicant were the holder of a licence.
(9)
While any licence is for the time being in force under this section, the licensed premises shall for the purposes of the principal Act be deemed in all respects to be under the jurisdiction of the Licensing Committee for the licensing district in which the application for the licence was made pursuant to subsection seven of this section.
Local Authorities (Members’ Contracts)
18 Repeal of provisions for recovery of payments by local authorities under disqualifying contracts.
(1)
Section six of the Local Authorities (Members’ Contracts) Act, 1934 (which prohibits payments by local authorities under disqualifying contracts) is hereby repealed.
1934, No. 17
(2)
Notwithstanding anything in the Acts Interpretation Act, 1924, the provisions of the said section six shall not continue to apply with respect to any payment heretofore made and not recovered, or any payment hereafter made, under or in respect of any contract, or any subject matter of any contract, entered into by a local authority at any time after the first day of June, nineteen hundred and forty-four and before the passing of this section, if the Audit Office, on an application made pursuant to subsection three of this section, is satisfied that the contract has been performed to the benefit of the local authority and that the amount of the payment is reasonable, and notifies the local authority that it approves the payment.
(3)
The provisions of subsection two of this section shall not operate so as to validate any payment heretofore or hereafter made unless application for the approval of the payment is made to the Audit Office by the local authority before the expiration of three months after the passing of this section or, where before the passing of this section a notification has not been given by the Audit Office to the local authority that the payment is unlawful, before the expiration of three months after the receipt by the local authority of a notification by the Audit Office that the payment will be unlawful if it is not approved under this section.
19 Increasing penalty for unlawfully acting as member of local authority.
1934, No. 17
Section five of the Local Authorities (Members’ Contracts) Act, 1934, is hereby amended by omitting the words “not exceeding fifty pounds”
, and substituting the words “not exceeding one hundred pounds”
.
Local Government Commission
20 Amending provisions as to matters to be provided for in reorganization schemes.
1946, No. 28
Subsection one of section thirteen of the Local Government Commission Act, 1946, as amended by section thirty-seven of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1947, is hereby further amended by adding the following paragraphs:—
1947, No. 60
“(i)
The exclusion of any area from any district:
“(j)
The dissolution of any local authority.”
Massey Agricultural College
21 Unauthorized expenditure of Board of Governors.
(1)
The Massey Agricultural College Act, 1926, is hereby amended by inserting, after section twenty-two, the following section:—
“22a
1926, No. 68
The Board of Governors of the Massey Agricultural College may in any year expend out of the general fund of the College for purposes not authorized by any law for the time being in force any sum or sums not exceeding in the aggregate five hundred pounds.”
Repeal. 1929, No. 29
(2)
Section sixty-one of the Finance Act, 1929, is hereby repealed.
Milk
22 Governor-General may fill extraordinary vacancies where Milk Board unable to exercise its powers.
(1)
Section twenty-three of the Milk Act, 1944, is hereby amended by adding the following as subsection two thereof:—
1944, No. 30
“(2)
If at any time the number of extraordinary vacancies authorized by this section to be filled by the Board is such that there are not sufficient members of the Board to constitute a quorum under section twenty-seven of this Act, the Governor-General may appoint as members of the Board such number of persons, being persons qualified for election under this Act, as may be required to fill those vacancies. Every member appointed under this subsection shall, unless his office sooner becomes vacant, hold office until the members elected at the next election of members of the Board come into office in accordance with this Act.”
(2)
This section shall apply with respect to extraordinary vacancies in the offices of elective members of Milk Boards, being extraordinary vacancies authorized by the said section twenty-three to be filled by such Boards, existing at the passing of this Act.
Music Teachers Registration
23 Regulations to prescribe annual fee payable by registered music teachers.
(1)
Section seventeen of the Music Teachers Registration Act, 1928, is hereby amended by omitting the words “a fee of ten shillings and sixpence”
, and substituting the words “such fee, not exceeding twenty-one shillings, as may be prescribed by regulations under this Act”
.
(2)
Section twenty-two of the said Act is hereby amended by inserting, after paragraph (a), the following paragraph:—
“(aa)
Prescribing the annual fee, not exceeding twenty-one shillings, payable by persons registered under this Act.”
Commencement.
(3)
This section shall come into force on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fifty-two.
Pharmacy
24 Extending terms of office of members of Pharmacy Board.
(1)
Section five of the Pharmacy Act, 1939, is hereby amended by omitting from subsection five the words “two years”
, and substituting the words “three years”
.
1939, No. 33
(2)
The last preceding subsection shall apply with respect to members of the Board appointed or elected in the year nineteen hundred and fifty, and in every third year thereafter.
25 Alternative procedure for filling extraordinary vacancies in offices of elective members.
Section five of the Pharmacy Act, 1939, is hereby further amended by repealing subsection six, and substituting the following subsections:—
“(6)
If any member of the Board dies, or is removed from office, or resigns, or otherwise vacates his office, the vacancy so created (hereinafter referred to as an extraordinary vacancy) shall, within three months after its occurrence, be filled in the manner in which the vacant office was originally filled or, in the case of any vacancy in the office of an elective member, in the manner prescribed by the next succeeding subsection if the Board so determines pursuant to that subsection.
“(6a)
In the case of an extraordinary vacancy in the office of an elective member of the Board, the Board may, within one month after the occurrence of the vacancy, by resolution determine that an election shall not be held and that the vacancy shall be filled—
“(a)
In the case of a vacancy in the office of a member elected under paragraph (b) of subsection two of this section, by the appointment by the Board of a person eligible for election to that office in the district in which the member vacating office was elected:
“(b)
In the case of a vacancy in the office of a member elected under paragraph (c) of subsection two of this section, by the appointment by the Board of a person eligible for election to that office in the Island in which the member vacating office was elected, being a person nominated by the New Zealand Federated Shop Assistants’ Industrial Association of Workers.
“(6b)
Every person appointed or elected to fill any extraordinary vacancy shall hold office for the residue of the term of office of his predecessor.”
Poisons
26 Registrar may delegate licensing powers to district officers.
(1)
The Poisons Act, 1934, is hereby amended by inserting, after section twelve, the following section:—
“12a
1934, No. 18
“(1)
The Registrar may from time to time delegate to any officer of the Department of Health in any health district under the Health Act, 1920, any of his functions and powers under this Part of this Act.
“(2)
Subject to any general or special directions of the Registrar, any person to whom any such powers or functions are so delegated may exercise those powers and perform those functions with the same effect as if they had been directly conferred on him by this Act and not by delegation.
“(3)
Every person purporting to act pursuant to any delegation under this section shall be presumed to be acting in accordance with the terms of the delegation until the contrary is proved.
“(4)
Any delegation under this section may at any time be revoked, either wholly or partially, by the Registrar.”
1934, No. 18
(2)
Section two of the Poisons Act, 1934, is hereby amended by adding to the definition of the term “Registrar”
the words “and includes any officer of the Department of Health to whom any powers or functions are for the time being delegated by the Registrar under this Act”
.
27 Section 20 of Poisons Act, 1934 (as to records of prescriptions), amended.
Section twenty of the Poisons Act, 1934, is hereby amended by inserting in subsection two, after the words “in a prescription book”
, the words “or in such other form as may from time to time be approved by the Director-General of Health, either generally or in any particular case,”
.
Post and Telegraph
28 Rights of appeal of officers of Post and Telegraph Department.
(1)
The Post and Telegraph Act, 1928, is hereby amended by repealing section two hundred and thirty-seven, and substituting the following section:—
“237
“(1)
Any officer shall have the right of appeal to the Post and Telegraph Appeal Board against—
“(a)
Any determination by the Director-General made on the occasion of a regrading of positions in the Department and relating to the grade of the appellant notified in any classification list prepared pursuant to this Act or any regulations made thereunder:
1936, No. 41
“(b)
Any appointment by way of promotion made under section three of the Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, 1936, to a position for which applications have been called and for which the appellant was an applicant, if appointment of the appellant to fill the vacancy would have involved his promotion:
1936, No. 41
“(c)
Any appointment by way of promotion made under section three of the Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, 1936, to a position without the vacancy having been notified or applications to fill the vacancy having been called, if appointment of the appellant to fill the vacancy would have involved his promotion:
“(d)
Any new appointment to the Department made under section three of the Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, 1936:
“(e)
Any determination of the Director-General withholding an annual increment from the appellant:
“(f)
Any determination of the Director-General withholding from the appellant advancement to a position carrying a higher salary in any subdivision, grade, or class of which he is a member, if the appellant is qualified to advance to that position:
“(g)
Any determination of the Director-General not to permit the appellant to retain his relative seniority during any year ending on the thirty-first day of March in which he is promoted to a higher subdivision, grade, or class:
“(h)
Any reduction in the salary or grading of the appellant:
“(i)
His dismissal from the Department:
“(j)
Any fine exceeding two pounds imposed on the appellant under regulations made under this Act.
1933, No. 23
“(2)
Nothing in this section shall be construed to confer on any person a right of appeal against any determination of the Director-General under subsection four of section eighteen of the Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, 1933, fixing rates of salaries.
“(3)
The Board shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any appeal under this section, and for that purpose to summon and examine witnesses on oath or otherwise, and to make such order as it thinks just either for the payment of the costs of the appeal by the Crown to the appellant or by the appellant to the Crown.
“(4)
The determination of the Board on any such appeal shall be communicated by the Board to the Director-General, who shall thereupon take such steps as may be necessary to give effect to that determination.
“(5)
In the event of the Board allowing an appeal under paragraph (a) of subsection one of this section, the Director-General may declare the position held by the appellant to be vacant and may fill the vacant position as provided by this Act.”
Repeal. 1936, No. 41
(2)
Paragraph (b) of subsection six of section four of the Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, 1936, is hereby consequentially repealed.
Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks
29 Commissioner of Crown Lands may execute leases of public domains.
(1)
Section forty-three of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “The Governor-General”
, the words “or the Minister”
.
(2)
The said section forty-three is hereby further amended by adding the following as subsection two thereof:—
“(2)
Any lease, deed, surrender, or other instrument that is required to be executed for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of this section may be executed by the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the district in which the domain to which the instrument relates is situated, and any such instrument so executed shall not require to be executed by or on behalf of the Governor-General or the Minister, as the case may be, and shall be deemed to be validly executed for all purposes.”
River Boards
30 Annual allowance to Chairman of River Board.
The River Boards Act, 1908, is hereby amended by inserting, after section forty-eight, the following section:—
“48a
“(1)
The Chairman may be paid such annual allowance, not exceeding fifty pounds, out of the funds of the Board as the Board from time to time fixes, but no alteration in the amount of that allowance shall take effect during the term of office of any Chairman.
“(2)
For the purposes of this section a person re-elected as Chairman shall be deemed to be a new Chairman.
“(3)
The receipt of an allowance under this section shall not be a disqualification under paragraph (d) of section twenty-nine of this Act.”
Rotorua Borough
31 Rotorua Borough Council to consist of elected members only. 1922, No. 9
(1)
The Rotorua Borough Act, 1922, is hereby amended by repealing section four, and substituting the following section:—
“4
1933, No. 30
The Council shall consist of nine members (exclusive of the Mayor) to be elected by the electors of the borough:
“Provided that nothing in this section shall in any way restrict the power of the Council under section one hundred and forty-eight of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1933, to alter the total number of members of the Council.”
(2)
The appointed members of the Council holding office immediately before the passing of this Act shall be deemed to have ceased to hold office on the passing of this Act.
Repeal. 1925, No. 6
(3)
The Rotorua Borough Amendment Act, 1925, is hereby repealed.
Samoa
32 Amending provisions as to arrest without warrant.
Section two hundred and nineteen of the Samoa Act, 1921, is hereby amended by inserting in subsection one, after the words “A constable”
, the words “or any other person”
.
Secondhand Dealers
33 Dealings by secondhand dealers as agents.
The Secondhand Dealers Amendment Act, 1934, is hereby amended by inserting, after section six, the following section:—
“6A
1934, No. 20
Except under the authority of an auctioneer’s licence, no holder of a secondhand dealer’s licence shall act, or offer or agree to act, as agent for any person, with or without commission, in the sale, purchase, or exchange of any secondhand article unless the provisions of section eight of the principal Act, and, if the article is one to which section six of this Act applies, the provisions of the said section six, are complied with in respect of the article in all respects as if it were bought, sold, exchanged, or received in exchange by him on his own behalf.”
State Supply of Electrical Energy
34 Section 65 of Statutes Amendment Act, 1944 (as to cost of installations), amended.
1944, No. 25
Section sixty-five of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1944, is hereby amended by omitting from the proviso the words “thirty pounds”
, and substituting the words “sixty pounds”
.
Tenancy
35 Excluding farm land from Tenancy Act, 1948.
1948, No. 76
(1)
Section two of the Tenancy Act, 1948, is hereby amended by repealing the definition of the term “property”
in subsection one, and substituting the following definition:—
“‘Property’ or ‘urban property’ means any land or interest in land or any building or part of a building let for any purposes under a separate tenancy; and includes any chattels that may be let therewith; but does not include—
“(a)
Any dwellinghouse; or
“(b)
Any property that is used exclusively or principally for agricultural purposes; or
“(c)
Any premises in respect of which a publican’s licence, an accommodation licence, or a tourist house licence’ is in force under the Licensing Act, 1908, or any hotel maintained by a Licensing Trust constituted under any Act:”.
Repeals. 1948, No. 76 1950, No. 28
(2)
The definition of the term “urban property”
in subsection one of section two of the Tenancy Act, 1948, and paragraph (a) of section sixteen of the Tenancy Amendment Act, 1950, are hereby consequentially repealed.
Commencement. 1950, No. 41
(3)
This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of November, nineteen hundred and fifty (being the date of the commencement of the Servicemen’s Settlement Act, 1950).
Town Boards
36 Increasing maximum general rate.
(1)
Section thirty-five of the Town Boards Act, 1908, as amended by section thirty-four of the Finance Act, 1921–22, is hereby further amended as follows:—
1921–22, No. 72
(a)
By omitting from the proviso the word “twopence”
, and substituting the words “twopence halfpenny”
:
(b)
By omitting from the proviso the words “two shillings and sixpence”
, and substituting the words “three shillings”
.
Repeal. 1921–22, No. 72
(2)
Section thirty-four of the Finance Act, 1921–22, is hereby repealed.
University of Otago Council
37 Unauthorized expenditure of Council.
1946, No. 25
The University of Otago Council Act, 1946, is hereby amended by inserting, after section thirteen, the following section:—
“13a
The Council may in any year expend out of the general fund of the University of Otago for purposes not authorized by any law for the time being in force any sum or sums not exceeding in the aggregate five hundred pounds.”
Valuation of Land
38 Revision of county valuation rolls made not later than 31st March, 1951, to be made according to 1942 basic values.
(1)
This section shall be read together with and deemed part of the Valuation of Land Act, 1925 (in this section referred to as the principal Act).
1943, No. 16
(2)
Notwithstanding anything in section nine of the principal Act, where, pursuant to section eight of that Act, the Valuer-General revises the district valuation roll for any district, being a county or any riding of a county, as at any date not later than the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, he shall, in determining the value of every property to which the revision relates, fix an amount which in his opinion is equivalent to the amount that would, if the Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943, were still in force, be held to be the basic value of the property under that Act in the event of a sale of the property on the date from which the revision takes effect.
Repeal. 1948 No. 77
(3)
Section forty-five of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1948, is hereby repealed.
Veterinary Surgeons
39 Qualifications of applicants for registration as veterinary surgeons.
Section six of the Veterinary Surgeons Act, 1926, is hereby amended by repealing paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection one, and substituting the following paragraphs:—
“(a)
He is a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, London, or is a graduate in veterinary science of the University of Sydney, Australia, or of the University of Pretoria, Union of South Africa; or
“(b)
He is a graduate in veterinary science or the holder of a diploma in veterinary science of any other University or veterinary college, and has undertaken such post-graduate studies or training or has passed such examination, whether in New Zealand or elsewhere, as the Board may prescribe or approve in the case of any such graduate or holder; or”.
Victoria University College
40 Unauthorized expenditure of Council.
1933, No. 26
Section thirty-one of the Victoria University College Act, 1933, is hereby amended by omitting the words “one hundred pounds”
, and substituting the words “five hundred pounds”
.
Weights and Measures
41 Regulations as to bread.
(1)
Section thirty-nine of the Weights and Measures Act, 1925, is hereby amended by inserting, after paragraph (r) of subsection one, the following paragraph:—
“(rr)
Prohibiting the sale or keeping for sale of any class or description of bread, except at the weights specified in and determined in accordance with the regulations, and determining for the purpose of regulations under this paragraph what is to be treated as selling or keeping for sale:”.
(2)
Section four of the Weights and Measures Act, 1925, is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (d) of subsection one the words “in a package”
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