This Act may be cited as the Auckland War Memorial Museum Maintenance Amendment Act 1980, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Auckland War Memorial Museum Maintenance Act 1979 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Except as provided in section 3(4) of this Act, this Act shall come into force on the 1st day of April 1981.

Section 2 of the principal Act is hereby amended—

Section 5(1) of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing paragraphs (d) to (h), and substituting the following paragraph:

Section 5(7) of the principal Act is hereby repealed.

Section 6(1) of the principal Act is hereby amended—

This section shall come into force on a date to be fixed by Order in Council on the advice of the Minister of Local Government. The first appointments and elections referred to in section 5(1) of the principal Act (as amended by this section) shall be completed within 5 months after the date of commencement of this section, and until such completion the members of the Council holding office on the date of such commencement shall continue in office subject to the right of resignation provided for in section 7 of the principal Act. Any extraordinary vacancy occurring before such completion shall not be filled.

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