King George the Fifth Memorial Children's Health Camps Amendment Act 1960
King George the Fifth Memorial Children's Health Camps Amendment Act 1960
King George the Fifth Memorial Children's Health Camps Amendment Act 1960
King George the Fifth Memorial Children’s Health Camps Amendment Act 1960
Public Act |
1960 No 19 |
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Date of assent |
7 October 1960 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the King George the Fifth Memorial Children’s Health Camps Act 1953
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
(1)
This Act may be cited as the King George the Fifth Memorial Children’s Health Camps Amendment Act 1960, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the King George the Fifth Memorial Children’s Health Camps Act 1953 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
(2)
This Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of August, nineteen hundred and sixty.
2 Powers of Board
Section 9 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection (2), and substituting the following subsection:
“(2)
In making any grant under paragraph (e) of subsection (1) of this section to any body other than a Central Council or district committee or camp management committee, the Board may in its discretion impose such conditions as it thinks fit for the purpose of ensuring that the grant is expended only for the purpose for which it was made and to the best advantage; but the Board shall not be obliged to see to the application of the grant.”
3 Contracts of the Federation
(1)
The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 11, and substituting the following section:
“11
The Federation is hereby declared to be a public body for the purposes of the Public Bodies Contracts Act 1959.”
(2)
The First Schedule to the Public Bodies Contracts Act 1959 is hereby amended by inserting in the appropriate columns of Part II, after the provisions relating to the Invercargill Licensing Trust, the following words:
“The King George the Fifth Memorial Children’s Health Camps Federation
1953, No. 51—The King George the Fifth Memorial Children’s Health Camps Act 1953. (1957 Reprint, Vol. 6, p. 807.)”
(3)
The principal Act is hereby consequentially amended by adding to subsection (1) of section 10 the following proviso:
“Provided that the Board shall not delegate power to enter into any contract on behalf of the Federation except in accordance with the provisions of section 4 of the Public Bodies Contracts Act 1959.”
4 Amending provisions as to Fund Account
(1)
Section 13 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection (2), and substituting the following subsection:
“(2)
All money belonging to the Fund (not being money to which section 16 of this Act applies) shall be paid into an account at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand to be called the King George the Fifth Memorial Children’s Health Camps Fund Account, or into the appropriate imprest account established under subsection (1) of section 14 of this Act.”
(2)
Section 13 of the principal Act is hereby further amended by repealing subsections (4) and (5), and substituting the following subsection:
“(4)
The Fund Account may be operated on only by cheque signed by the Secretary to the Board, or by some other officer of the Board who is for the time being authorised by the Board to sign cheques, and countersigned in each case by any member of the Board who is for the time being authorised by the Board to countersign cheques.”
(3)
Section 24 of the principal Act is hereby consequentially amended by repealing subsection (4).
5 Imprest accounts
Section 14 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection (2), and substituting the following subsection:
“(2)
Every imprest account shall be held in the name of the Federation, and may be operated on by such person or persons as may from time to time be appointed in that behalf by the Board.”
6 Central Councils
Section 18 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection (1), and substituting the following subsections:
“(1)
There are hereby established for the purposes of this Act the following Central Councils of the Federation:
“(a)
The Auckland Central Council:
“(b)
The Wellington Central Council:
“(c)
The Christchurch Central Council:
“(d)
The Dunedin Central Council.
“(1a)
Each Central Council shall have jurisdiction in an area prescribed by the Governor-General, by Order in Council, being such health districts under the Health Act 1956 as are specified in the Order in Council.”
7 Financial provisions relating to Central Councils, district committees, etc.
(1)
Section 24 of the principal Act is hereby further amended by repealing subsection (1), and substituting the following subsection:
“(1)
All money to which section 16 hereof applies received by any person on behalf of a Central Council or district committee’ or local committee or camp management committee shall forthwith be paid into such bank within the meaning of the Banking Act 1908 as the Council or committee, as the case may require, from time to time determines.”
(2)
Section 24 of the principal Act is hereby further amended by adding the following subsections:
“(6)
Each Central Council, each district committee, each local committee, and each camp management committee shall keep full and correct accounts of all money received and expended by it, and those accounts shall be audited by the Audit Office, which for that purpose shall have all the powers that it has under the Public Revenues Act 1953 in respect of public money and stores.
“(7)
Each Central Council and each such committee shall, as soon as possible after the end of a financial year, cause its accounts of money received and expended by it during that year to be balanced, and each Central Council shall cause an abstract of its transactions and the transactions of the committees in the area under its jurisdiction, duly audited, to be furnished to the Board.”
(3)
Section 31 of the principal Act is hereby amended—
(a)
By omitting from subsection (1) and also from subsection (2) the words “each Central Council, each district committee, and each camp management committee”
:
(b)
By omitting from subsection (1) the words “and the audit of local authorities’ accounts”
:
(c)
By omitting from subsection (4) the words “its accounts for that year certified by the Audit Office and a copy of the reports and accounts”
, and substituting the words “the reports”
.
8 Payment of travelling expenses
Section 29 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection (2), and substituting the following subsections:
“(2)
There shall be paid to the members of a Central Council, a district committee, or a camp management committee travelling allowances and expenses in accordance with the Fees and Travelling Allowances Act 1951, and the provisions of that Act shall apply accordingly.
“(3)
The Board, each Central Council, each district committee, and each camp management committee are hereby declared to be statutory Boards for the purposes of the Fees and Travelling Allowances Act 1951.”
9 Purposes of Federation declared to be charitable
The principal Act is hereby further amended by inserting, after section 33, the following section:
“33a
For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that for the purpose of any Act or rule of law the Federation has been and shall be deemed always to have been established exclusively for charitable purposes in New Zealand.”