This Act may be cited as the New Zealand University Amendment Act, 1923, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the New Zealand University Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

In addition to the degrees which it is empowered by section twenty-seven of the principal Act to confer, the Senate shall have power to confer the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, and in respect thereof the provisions of that section shall apply.

Section thirteen of the New Zealand University Amendment Act, 1914, is hereby amended by repealing paragraphs (e) and (j), and substituting the following paragraphs:—

Section seventeen of the New Zealand University Amendment Act, 1914, is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (f) the reference to paragraphs (g), (h), (i), and (j) of section thirteen of that Act, and substituting a reference to paragraphs (g), (h), (i), (j), and (k) of that section.

Subsection two of section twenty-seven of the New Zealand University Amendment Act, 1914, is hereby repealed as from the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, and the following subsection substituted therefor:—

For the purposes of section thirty-three of the New Zealand University Amendment Act, 1914, the term “bequest” means and includes any property, whether real or personal, derived from the estate of a deceased person, whether or not any discretionary powers as to the disposal of that property are vested in the personal representatives of the deceased.