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Post Office Amendment Act 1982

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Depositor may nominate beneficiary in event of death

Post Office Amendment Act 1982

Public Act		1982 No 45
Date of assent		13 November 1982

	Title
1	Short Title and commencement
2	Depositor may nominate beneficiary in event of death
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Post Office Act 1959 relating to nominations of accounts

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 and commencement

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Post Office Amendment Act 1982, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Post Office Act 1959 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(2)

This Act shall come into force on the 28th day after the date on which it receives the Governor-General’s assent.

2 Depositor may nominate beneficiary in event of death

(1)

Section 124 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting in subsection (1), after the words “any amount”, the words “, not exceeding $6,000,”.

(2)

Section 124 of the principal Act is hereby further amended by repealing subsection (3), and substituting the following subsection:

“(3)

Every such nomination shall be in writing, signed by the depositor in the presence of a Justice of the Peace, a solicitor of the High Court, or any other person authorised to take statutory declarations.”

(3)

Section 124 of the principal Act is hereby further amended by inserting in subsection (4), before the words “The making,”, the words “Subject to subsection (3) of this section and to Part Ia of the Administration Act 1969,”.

This Act is administered in the Post Office.

Post Office Amendment Act 1982