• Preamble

  WHEREAS the Hutt Valley and Bays Metropolitan Milk Board, a Board duly constituted under the Milk Act 1944 (hereinafter referred to as the Board), is empowered by section sixty-one of the said Act, by special order made pursuant to section forty-two of the said Act, to fix a day after which it shall be unlawful for any person to do any of the things specified in the said section sixty-one except under a licence issued by the Board: And whereas on the eighteenth day of February, nineteen hundred and forty-six, the Board duly passed at a special meeting of the Board a resolution fixing the first day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-six, as the appointed day within the meaning of the said section sixty-one, but confirmation of the said resolution was not effected within the period and in the manner prescribed by the said section forty-two: And whereas by the Hutt Valley and Bays Milk Delivery Notice 1946, published in the Gazette of the twenty-first day of February, nineteen hundred and forty-six, at page 247, certain zones within the district of the Board were created by clause eleven of the said notice: And whereas the Board varied, amended, and altered certain of the said zones before the revocation of the said notice published in the Gazette of the fourth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, at page 1652: And whereas doubts have arisen as to the power of the Board so to vary, amend, and alter the said zones before the revocation of the said notice: And whereas it is expedient to validate all actions of the Board in respect of the said notice and the said resolution:

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