Apprentices Amendment Act 1977
Apprentices Amendment Act 1977
Apprentices Amendment Act 1977
Apprentices Amendment Act 1977
Public Act |
1977 No 143 |
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Date of assent |
23 December 1977 |
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An Act to amend the Apprentices Act 1948
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 Apprentices Amendment Act 1977, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Apprentices Act 1948 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Temporary District Commissioners
The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 4, the following section:
“4a
“(1)
Where—
“(a)
The office of District Commissioner in any locality is vacant; or
“(b)
The Commissioner is satisfied that any District Commissioner is, through illness, absence, or other sufficient reason, unable to exercise and perform all his powers and functions—
the Commissioner may, by writing under his hand, authorise a suitable officer of the Public Service to exercise and perform all or any of the powers and functions of the District Commissioner in that locality until the office is filled or, as the case may be, the inability ceases; and every person so authorised may exercise and perform those powers and functions accordingly.
“(2)
While he exercises or performs any power or function that he has been authorised to exercise or perform under subsection (1) of this section, a person so authorised shall be deemed to be a District Commissioner.
“(3)
No authorisation of any person under subsection (1) of this section, and no acts done by any person so authorised in pursuance of that authority, shall in any proceedings be questioned on the ground that the occasion for the authorisation has not arisen or had ceased.”
3
Consent required before apprenticeship contract entered into—Section 19(3) of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from the proviso the words “the Court”
, and substituting the words “the appropriate local committee or, where there is no such committee, the District Commissioner”
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This Act is administered in the Department of Labour.