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Add to web feed | Private Act | 1942 No 3 |
| Date of assent | 3 December 1942 |
An Act to incorporate the General Council of the Girl Guides Association (New Zealand Branch).
WHEREAS there was incorporated in Great Britain by Royal Charter dated the fourteenth day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, a body corporate known as the Girl Guides Association: And whereas the Girl Guides Association was the outcome of a movement initiated in Great Britain for the special training and instruction of girls in the principles of discipline, loyalty, and good citizenship: And whereas the aforesaid movement has spread throughout the British Commonwealth of Nations and elsewhere, and there has for many years past existed in the Dominion of New Zealand an unincorporated organization working as a branch of and in close co-operation with the Girl Guides Association and calling itself the Girl Guides Association (Dominion of New Zealand Branch) (hereinafter referred to as the said Association): And whereas the said Association is governed by a body called the General Council of the New Zealand Branch, the affairs of the said Association being conducted and managed by the General Council in accordance with the constitution adopted under common seal of the Association on the fourteenth day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, which constitution has been approved by the Girl Guides Association in Great Britain under the common seal thereof: And whereas in the course of its existence the New Zealand Branch of the said Association has acquired real and personal property in New Zealand, and gifts, grants, and contributions have been received by it or have been vested in trustees for the benefit of or for the use of the said Association generally or for the benefit of some particular company, pack, or other local unit within the organization: And whereas it is desirable that the General Council should be incorporated so that the organization in New Zealand can function on similar lines to the Girl Guides Association in Great Britain:
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
This Act may be cited as the Girl Guides Association (New Zealand Branch) Incorporation Act 1942.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
Constitution and by-laws means the constitution and by-laws of the Girl Guides Association (New Zealand Branch)
Corporation means the body incorporated by this Act
General Council means the General Council of the Girl Guides Association (New Zealand Branch).
The persons who on the passing of this Act are members of the General Council in accordance with the constitution and by-laws and all other persons who shall in accordance with the constitution and by-laws become members of the General Council shall henceforth be one body corporate by the name of The Girl Guides Association (New Zealand Branch), Incorporated, having perpetual succession and a common seal, and capable of holding real and personal property and of doing and suffering all that bodies corporate may do and suffer.
The control of the Girl Guide movement in all its activities in New Zealand shall be vested in the Corporation, which, subject to the constitution and by-laws, shall have power to provide and maintain such organization in New Zealand as the Corporation deems necessary or desirable for the performance and exercise of such duties or powers as may be delegated to it by the Association in Great Britain under the provisions of the Royal Charter, and shall also have power to do all things which the Corporation may in its discretion consider necessary or desirable for promoting the welfare of the New Zealand Branch.
The Corporation may from time to time alter and amend the constitution and by-laws and may thereby delegate the administration of any matter within the powers of the Corporation to the Executive Committee of the Corporation appointed according to the constitution and by-laws or to such other body as the Corporation thinks fit, and the Executive Committee or such other body shall in respect of any matter so delegated have all the powers of the Corporation.
The Corporation shall have power to require that all real and personal property, stock, funds, securities, and other assets of every description belonging to the New Zealand Branch or held in trust for or for the use of the same or of any group or unit thereof shall be transferred to or otherwise vested in the Corporation by any person holding the same, and on any such transfer or vesting the Corporation shall thereafter execute and perform any trust or conditions affecting any of such assets and shall defray or provide for any debts or liabilities to the discharge of which the said assets or any of them shall at the time of transfer or vesting be applicable, and shall give any trustees in whom any such assets may be vested a valid receipt, discharge, and indemnity for and in respect of the transfer or vesting of the same in the Corporation. The rights of the Corporation under this section may be enforced by action in any Court of competent jurisdiction.
Sections thirteen to eighteen of The Incorporated Societies Act 1908, shall apply to the Corporation in all respects as if it were a society incorporated under that Act.
(1) As soon as practicable after the commencement of this Act a copy of the Royal Charter of the fourteenth day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, and a copy of the constitution and by-laws, each sealed with the seal of the Corporation, shall be delivered to the Registrar of Incorporated Societies under The Incorporated Societies Act 1908, accompanied by a statutory declaration made by an officer of the Corporation that such copies are true copies.
(2) True copies of any amendments or alterations that may be made in the constitution and by-laws shall in like manner be delivered to the Registrar, verified as aforesaid.
This Act is hereby declared to be a private Act.
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