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Forests Amendment Act 1981

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Short Title

Powers of the Minister, etc.

Receipts and expenditure

Forests Amendment Act 1981

Public Act		1981 No 69
Date of assent		22 October 1981

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Powers of the Minister, etc.
3	Receipts and expenditure
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Forests Act 1949

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Forests Amendment Act 1981, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Forests Act 1949 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Powers of the Minister, etc.

Section 15(1) of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (e), and substituting the following paragraph:

“(e)

Train Forest Officers and employees, conduct research into forests, forestry, forest products, and into any matter for or over which the Forest Service has responsibility or control and management under section 14 of this Act, and into any activity which the Minister is empowered to undertake under this section, and collect and disseminate information on forestry and the activities of the Forest Service:”.

3 Receipts and expenditure

Section 16 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following subsections:

“(4)

Notwithstanding subsection (2) of this section, any person or body, unless prohibited from doing so by any Act, regulation, or instrument of trust, may make to the Minister a grant or gift of money for specified or general purposes of this Act, and the Minister may accept any such grant or gift for such purposes.

“(5)

All money received by the Minister under subsection (4) of this section shall be paid into the Public Account to the credit of an account within the Trust Account known as the Forest Service Grants and Gifts Trust Account, and shall be applied, without further appropriation than this subsection, to the purposes for which the grant or gift was accepted by the Minister.”

This Act is administered in the New Zealand Forest Service.

Forests Amendment Act 1981