• Preamble

  WHEREAS there was incorporated in Great Britain by Royal Charter dated the fourth day of January, nineteen hundred and twelve, a body corporate known as the Boy Scouts Association:And whereas the Boy Scouts Association was the outcome of the movement initiated in Great Britain by the late Lord Baden Powell of Gilwell, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB, for the special training and instruction of boys in accordance with the principles and under the organisation from time to time laid down in the constitution and in the Policy Organisation and RuIes of the Boy Scouts Association: And whereas the aforesaid movement has spread throughout the British Commonwealth of Nations and elsewhere, and there has for many years past existed in New Zealand an organisation for the training of boys on the lines and in harmony with the principles of the aforementioned constitution and the Policy Organisation and Rules of the Boy Scouts Association and working as a branch of and in close co-operation with the Boy Scouts Association: And whereas the New Zealand Branch was incorporated by the Boy Scouts Association (New Zealand Branch) Incorporation Act 1941: And whereas the Boy Scouts Association (New Zealand Branch) Incorporated is governed by a Dominion Council and has its affairs conducted and managed by a Dominion Executive Committee in accordance with its constitution and bylaws as approved by the Boy Scouts Association in Great Britain and delivered to the Registrar of Incorporated Societies pursuant to section eight of the said Act: And whereas by resolution duly passed at a meeting of the Dominion Council on the twenty-first day of September, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, the Boy Scouts Association (New Zealand Branch) Incorporated, with the approval of the Boy Scouts Association in Great Britain given under the common seal thereof, amended its constitution and bylaws: And whereas by the constitution aforesaid the Boy Scouts Association (New Zealand Branch) Incorporated became independent of the Boy Scouts Association of Great Britain and became a fully autonomous unit of the Boy Scout movement: And whereas in the course of its existence the Boy Scouts Association (New Zealand Branch) Incorporated 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 its benefit or for its use generally or for the benefit of some particular Scout troop, Cub pack, or other local unit within the organisation of the Boy Scouts Association (New Zealand Branch) Incorporated: And whereas it is desirable that the name of the Boy Scouts Association (New Zealand Branch) Incorporated should be changed to “The Boy Scouts Association of New Zealand” in accordance with its independent status as aforesaid:

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