This Act may be cited as the Otago Foundation Trust Board Amendment Act 1968, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the principal Act.

The principal Act may hereafter be cited as the Otago Foundation Trust Board Act 1962.

Every reference in any enactment or document whatsoever to the Short Title of the principal Act is consequentially amended by omitting the words “Presbyterian Church Board of Property”, and substituting therefor the words “Foundation Trust Board”.

Whenever in the principal Act or in any other enactment or document whatsoever the words “the Otago Presbyterian Church Board of Property” are used the same shall be amended by omitting the words “Presbyterian Church Board of Property”, and substituting therefor the words “Foundation Trust Board”.

Wherever in the principal Act or in any other enactment or document whatsoever the term “the Board” or “the Church Board” is used to describe the Otago Presbyterian Church Board of Property, unless the context otherwise requires, the reference shall hereafter be read as a reference to the Otago Foundation Trust Board.

Where the title of the Otago Presbyterian Church Board of Property to any real or personal property or right is or should have been entered on any register required by law to be kept, the Registrar or other person whose duty it is to keep that register shall, on request in writing of the Board, without payment of any fee make such entries in the register as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this section.

The presentation to any Registrar of Deeds or any District Land Registrar or any other person of an instrument duly executed in the name of the Otago Foundation Trust Board and relating to any estate or interest in any land or other property vested in the Otago Presbyterian Church Board of Property immediately before the commencement of this Act shall, notwithstanding that the present name has not been entered in the appropriate register, be accepted by all persons concerned as conclusive proof that the estate or interest is vested in the Board in its present name.

Schedule A of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from the first part thereof and adding to the second part thereof, the lands described or referred to in the Schedule hereto.

Section 12 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing paragraphs (c) and (d), and substituting the following paragraphs:

Paragraph (g) of section 12 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting therefrom the words “in the Provincial District of Otago”.

This Act is hereby declared to be a private Act.