This Act may be cited as the Auckland War Memorial Museum Maintenance Amendment Act 1963, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Auckland War Memorial Museum Maintenance Act 1928 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 3, as substituted by section 2 of the Auckland War Memorial Museum Maintenance Amendment Act 1953, and substituting the following section:

The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing the Schedule, and substituting the Schedule set out in the First Schedule to this Act.

The contributing authorities shall be entitled to representation on the Council in manner following:

The first members of the Council to be appointed and elected pursuant to section 4 of this Act shall be appointed and elected by the contributing authorities therein referred to not later than the twenty-eighth day of February, nineteen hundred and sixty-four, and the provisions of subsection (2) of section 6 of this Act as to the election of subsequent members of the Council by the contributing authorities mentioned in paragraphs (b) to (e) of section 4 of this Act shall apply to the first election.

The first members of the Council to be appointed and elected pursuant to section 4 of this Act shall come into office on the first day of March, nineteen hundred and sixty-four.

Within four months after the triennial general elections of members of the Councils of boroughs, counties, and town districts, and of the Boards of road districts, are held under the Local Elections and Polls Act 1953—

With respect to every election by contributing authorities pursuant to paragraphs (b), (c), (d), and (e) of subsection (1) of this section, the following provisions shall apply:

Every member of the Council appointed or elected under this section shall come into office on the day following that on which he is appointed or elected.

Any member of the Council, whether appointed or elected, may from time to time be reappointed or re-elected, or may at any time resign his office by writing addressed to the Secretary of the Council.

Every such member, unless he sooner vacates his office, shall continue to hold office until his successor comes into office.

Every extraordinary vacancy within the meaning of section 2 of the Local Elections and Polls Act 1953 shall be filled in the same manner as in the case of the vacating member, and the member appointed or elected to fill any extraordinary vacancy shall hold office only for the residue of the term of the vacating member:

Provided that, in any case where the extraordinary vacancy occurs within four months before the date fixed for the next triennial general election of members of Councils of boroughs, counties, and town districts and of the Boards of road districts under the Local Elections and Polls Act 1953, the Council may decide either to fill the vacancy in manner hereinbefore provided or not to fill the vacancy.

The powers of the Council shall not be affected by any vacancy in the membership thereof.

The Governor-General, on the advice of the Minister of Internal Affairs given on the petition of the Council and with the consent of the local authority concerned, may from time to time by Order in Council declare any local authority to be a contributing authority for the purposes of this Act and in which group, having regard to the differential factor, the new contributing authority shall be included; and thereafter the provisions of this Act shall apply as if the name of that local authority were included in the Schedule (as set out in the First Schedule to this Act) to the principal Act.

A local authority declared by Order in Council to be a contributing authority pursuant to this section shall be liable for its first contribution on the thirtieth day of June next following the issue of that Order in Council.

No fresh election of representatives shall become necessary by reason only of the issue of an Order in Council under this section.

Section 8 of the Auckland War Memorial Museum Maintenance Amendment Act 1945 is hereby consequentially repealed.

The Council is hereby declared to be a statutory Board within the meaning of the Fees and Travelling Allowances Act 1951.

The Council may pay to the President of the Council remuneration by way of fees, salary, or allowances in accordance with the Fees and Travelling Allowances Act 1951, and the provisions of that Act shall apply accordingly.

The Council may pay to the President and to the members of the Council travelling allowances and expenses in accordance with the Fees and Travelling Allowances Act 1951, and the provisions of that Act shall apply accordingly.

The Council may in every financial year expend for purposes not authorised by any Act or law for the time being in force any sum or sums not amounting in the whole to more than one per cent of the gross receipts of the Council for that year, nor in any case to more than one hundred and fifty pounds.

The provisions of the Local Authorities Loans Act 1956 shall, with the necessary modifications, apply to the Council in all respects as if the Council were a local authority within the meaning of that Act:

Provided that the Council shall not be entitled to make or levy a special rate as security for any special loan.

The Council is hereby declared to be a local authority within the meaning of the Local Authorities (Members’ Contracts) Act 1954.

The Council shall be deemed to be a local authority for the purposes of the National Provident Fund Act 1950 and section 6 of the Finance Act (No. 2) 1941.

The following enactments are hereby repealed: