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Immigration Amendment Act 1990

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Immigrant Resettlement and Research Fund

Immigration Amendment Act 1990

Public Act		1990 No 90
Date of assent		8 August 1990

	Title
1	Short Title and commencement
2	Immigrant Resettlement and Research Fund
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Immigration Act 1987

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows:

1 Short Title and commencement

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Immigration Amendment Act 1990, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Immigration Act 1987 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(2)

This Act shall come into force on the day after the day on which it receives the Royal assent.

2 Immigrant Resettlement and Research Fund

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 149, the following section:

“149a

“(1)

In this section, unless the context otherwise requires,—

“‘Departmental Bank Account’ means such Departmental Bank Account operated by the Department of Labour as the Minister of Finance from time to time determines:

“‘Fund’ means the Immigrant Resettlement and Research Fund established under this section.

“(2)

There is hereby established a Fund to be known as the Immigrant Resettlement and Research Fund, which shall comprise a credit sum within the Departmental Bank Account.

“(3)

The Fund shall be applied for the purposes of—

“(a)

Funding programmes for the resettlement of immigrants in New Zealand, particularly those programmes that have an emphasis on the development of language skills:

“(b)

Funding research into—

“(i)

The social and economic effects of immigration to New Zealand:

“(ii)

The circumstances and experiences of immigrants after their settlement in New Zealand.

“(4)

There shall be paid into the Departmental Bank Account, to the credit of the Fund, such amounts of public money as Parliament appropriates from time to time for the purpose, and such amounts shall be separately accounted for.

“(5)

Payments from the Departmental Bank Account may be debited to the Fund only if such payments are authorised by this section, but nothing in this section shall prevent the investment, in accordance with section 23 of the Public Finance Act 1989, of any money for the time being standing to the credit of the Fund in the Departmental Bank Account and not immediately required for the purposes of the Fund.

“(6)

There shall be paid out of the Departmental Bank Account and debited to the Fund such amounts as the chief executive of the Department of Labour from time to time determines to allocate for any of the purposes for which the Fund may be applied.

“(7)

Any allocation made pursuant to subsection (6) of this section may be subject to such terms and conditions as the chief executive of the Department of Labour thinks fit, including conditions to ensure that the persons to whom allocations are made are obliged to account for the use of the funds so allocated.”

This Act is administered in the Department of Labour.

Immigration Amendment Act 1990