This Act may be cited as the Canterbury College and Canterbury Agricultural College Amendment Act, 1922, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Canterbury College and Canterbury Agricultural College Act, 1896 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

On and after the passing of this Act the number of members constituting the Board of Governors of the Corporation of the Canterbury College shall be twenty, anything to the contrary in section three of the principal Act notwithstanding.

Section five of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the word “nineteen”; and by repealing paragraph (6), and substituting therefor the following:—

Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this section, the member of the Board elected by the Professorial Board and in office on the passing of this Act shall continue to hold office until the first day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, or until he shall cease to be a member of the Board under the provisions of section nine of the principal Act; in which case there shall be a casual vacancy, which shall be filled by the election of a member of the Professorial Board, who shall hold office for the residue of the term of the vacating member.

The Rector shall take office as a member of the Board of Governors immediately on the passing of this Act.

In the event of the office of Rector becoming vacant and of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College deciding not to appoint to the vacancy and to discontinue the office, and giving to the Professorial Board notice of such decision, the vacancy thus caused on the Board of Governors shall be deemed a casual vacancy, and shall be filled by a member of the Professorial Board to be elected by the Professorial Board, who shall hold office until the expiry of the term of office of the other elected representative of the Professorial Board or until the appointment of a Rector, whichever event shall first happen.

In the event of the appointment of a Rector when there are already two elected representatives of the Professorial Board, one of such elected representatives shall retire, and the Rector shall take office on the first day of the month immediately following the date of the appointment of the Rector. The elected member to retire shall be decided by lot between the two elected representatives of the Professorial Board.

The term of office of the elected member or members of the Board of Governors representing the Professorial Board shall be three years.

The first ordinary election of such member or members shall be held on the first Monday in June, nineteen hundred and twenty-four.

Every member elected by the Professorial Board for the ordinary term of office shall take office on the first day of July next following the date of his election.

Section eight of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the words “except as a representative of the Professorial Board.”

Section nine of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after paragraph (4), the following paragraphs:—

The Board of Governors is hereby empowered to expend out of its revenues, during the year ending on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, such sum or sums as it thinks fit, not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of five hundred pounds, for the purpose of fitly celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the College.