Papanui Memorial Hall Enabling Act 1939

Papanui Memorial Hall Enabling Act 1939

Local Act1939 No 7
Date of assent8 September 1939

An Act to repeal the Papanui Memorial Hall Management Act 1928, and to provide for the Future Control, Maintenance, Management, and Administration of the Papanui Memorial Hall by the Christchurch City Council.

  • Preamble

    WHEREAS the Committee of Management constituted under the Papanui Memorial Hall Management Act 1928 (hereinafter called the said Act), and called the Memorial Hall Committee, has controlled the general maintenance and management of the Papanui Memorial Hall, kept an Income and Expenditure Account relating thereto, and generally managed the said hall pursuant to the provisions of the said Act down to the first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight: And whereas the Waimairi County Council has paid its proportion of the rates due in respect of the said hall and the deficiency in connection with the said hall down to that date: And whereas the Christchurch City Council has permanently resumed the duty of receiving and expending the income of and all moneys arising out of the management and out of the use of the said memorial hall as from the first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, and has controlled, maintained, managed, and administered the said hall since that date:

BE IT THEREFORE 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 Papanui Memorial Hall Enabling Act 1939.

2 Christchurch City Council to have future control of hall

  • The Christchurch City Council alone shall control, maintain, manage, and administer the said memorial hall.

3 Waimairi County Council and Memorial Hall Committee released of responsibility

  • The Waimairi County Council and the Memorial Hall Committee are hereby released from all responsibility for any acts, deeds, matters, and things done, or permitted, or required to be done by either of them under the Papanui Memorial Hall Management Act 1928, and the said Committee is hereby dissolved.

4 Validation of acts done in anticipation of this Act

  • All acts of any nature done before the passing of this Act that by virtue of this Act would have been valid and lawful if they had been done after the passing of this Act shall be deemed to have been validly and lawfully done.

5 Papanui Memorial Hall Act 1928 repealed

  • The Papanui Memorial Hall Management Act 1928, is hereby repealed.