All sums issued under section 58 of the Public Revenues Act 1926 during the financial year that ended on 31 March 1949 in excess of the limits prescribed by subsection (3) of that section (as substituted by section 7 of the Finance Act 1947) are hereby declared to have been lawfully issued and paid.

The following enactments are hereby repealed:

All gold duty that became due and payable and all penalties and forfeitures that were incurred before the commencement of this section shall be recovered and enforced in the same manner as if this section had not been passed.

Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).

It shall be lawful and be deemed to have been lawful for any local authority or public body—

No gift duty shall be payable in respect of any contribution to the said company under paragraph (a) of the last preceding subsection.

The payment of the sum of 25 pounds made during the financial year that ended on 31 March 1949 by the Awanui Harbour Board to Thomas F Walker, an employee of the Board, to assist him to replace his house and belongings which were destroyed by fire is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

The provisions of the Legislature Act 1908, or of the Electoral Act 1927, or of any other Act, as to the disqualification of members of the General Assembly or of candidates for election as members of Parliament, shall not apply with respect to any payment that has been or may hereafter be received out of public moneys—

In this section the term the conforming order means principal order number 162 made by the Government Railways Industrial Tribunal on 26 August 1949 for the purpose of conforming with the pronouncement of the Court of Arbitration made on 12 April 1949 specifying standard rates of wages.

All limitations of time applicable to the making of any principal order by the Government Railways Industrial Tribunal, or to any matter ancillary thereto, shall apply in all respects as if the conforming order had not been made.

Whereas Arthur Morice Goulding, Esquire (in this section referred to as the contributor), was at the time of his appointment as the Chairman of the Licensing Control Commission a contributor to the Government Superannuation Fund as a Magistrate under section 72 of the Superannuation Act 1947:

And whereas the office of Chairman of the Licensing Control Commission is not an office to which the Superannuation Act 1947 is applicable, and it is desirable, for the purpose of preserving the superannuation rights of the contributor to the extent hereinafter provided for, that he should continue as hereinafter provided to be a contributor to the said Fund:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

During the period of the contributor’s service as the Chairman of the Licensing Control Commission he shall continue to be a contributor to the Government Superannuation Fund under section 72 of the Superannuation Act 1947.

For the purposes of section 72 of the Superannuation Act 1947, the service of the contributor as the Chairman of the Licensing Control Commission (whether before or after the passing of this Act) shall be deemed to be service as a Magistrate, and the rate of the salary of the contributor during the period of that service shall be deemed to be the rate of the salary from time to time payable to a Magistrate.

It shall be lawful and be deemed to have been lawful for the trustees of the New Plymouth Savings Bank to expend during the financial year ending on 31 March 1950, out of the profits of the bank, any sums of money not exceeding in the aggregate 1,000 pounds for the purpose of celebrating and commemorating the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Bank.