Finance Act (No 4) 1931

Finance Act (No 4) 1931

Public Act1931 No 44
Date of assent11 November 1931

Contents

Title

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An Act to make provision with respect to public finance and other matters

1 Short Title
  • This Act may be cited as the Finance Act 1931 (No 4).

2 Empowering Minister of Finance to borrow £3,000,000 for certain public works
  • [Spent]

3 Section 41 of Public Revenues Act 1926 (as to borrowing Treasury Bills), amended
  • [Repealed]

    Section 3 was repealed by section 3(2) Finance Act (No 2) 1932-33.

4 Realization of Reserve Fund securities
  • [Repealed]

    Section 4 was repealed by section 120(1) Public Revenues Act 1953.

5 Extension of power to hypothecate securities under Part 12 of Public Revenues Act
  • [Repealed]

    Section 5 was repealed by section 120(1) Public Revenues Act 1953.

6 Certain moneys borrowed for State Advances purposes to be part of the public debt
  • [Repealed]

    Section 6 was repealed by section 73(1) New Zealand Loans Act 1953.

7 Authorizing transfer to Consolidated Fund of certain moneys from Discharged Soldiers Settlement Account
  • [Repealed]

    Section 7 was repealed by section 185(1) Land Act 1948.

8 Abolition of Depreciation Fund established in connection with discharged soldiers settlement loans
  • [Spent]

9 Validating payments out of New Zealand Reparation Estates Account to Samoan Treasury
  • [Spent]

10 Section 59 of Public Revenues Act 1926 amended
  • [Repealed]

    Section 10 was repealed by section 120(1) Public Revenues Act 1953.

11 Section 34 of Finance Act 1929 (relating to charity stamps), amended
  • [Repealed]

    Section 11 was repealed by section 9(5) Adhesive Stamps Act 1939.

12 Section 26 of Government Life Insurance Act 1908 amended
  • [Repealed]

    Section 12 was repealed by section 41(1) Government Life Insurance Act 1953.

13 Amending provisions as to assessment of gold-mining and scheelite-mining companies for income-tax purposes
  • [Repealed]

    Section 13 was repealed by section 246(1) Land and Income Tax Act 1954.

14 Film-hire tax not payable in respect of sound-picture films made in New Zealand
  • [Repealed]

    Section 14 was repealed by section 115 Cinematograph Films Act 1961.

15 Section 136 of Mental Defectives Act 1911 amended
  • [Repealed]

    Section 15 was repealed by section 7(3) Mental Health Amendment Act 1950.

16 Extending exemptions from annual license fees under Motor-vehicles Act 1924
  • [Repealed]

    Section 16 was repealed by section 3(3) Motor Vehicles Amendment Act 1934-35.

17
  • (1) 

    (2) The term shares as defined in section 2 of the principal Act is hereby extended to include securities of the Government of New Zealand; bonds, stock, and other securities issued by the State Advances Superintendent under the Rural Advances Act 1926; debentures issued by the Rural Intermediate Credit Board under the Rural Intermediate Credit Act 1927; and securities issued by any local authority within the meaning of Part 1 of the Local Authorities Loans Act 1956.

    (3) [Repealed]

    Section 17(3) was repealed by section 2(3) of the Sharebrokers Amendment Act 1952.

    Subsection (1)(a) was repealed, as from 1 July 1994, by section 2(2) Sharebrokers Amendment Act 1994 (1994 No 62).

18 Section 49 of Native Trustee Act 1930 amended
  • [Repealed]

    Section 18 was impliedly repealed by section 53(1) Maori Trustee Act 1953.

19 Subsidy paid under section 54 of Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act 1926 during current financial year not to be charged with interest in certain cases
  • [Repealed]

    Section 19 was repealed by section 158(1) Hospitals Act 1957.

20 Minister of Finance may refund to racing clubs portion of totalizator duty
  • [Repealed]

    Section 20 was repealed by section 17(3) Finance Act (No 2) 1935.

21 Reducing annual grant to Massey Agricultural College
  • [Repealed]

    Section 21 was repealed by section 10(3) Finance Act 1935.

22 Section 29 of Finance Act 1929 amended
  • [Repealed]

    Section 22 was repealed by section 120(1) Public Revenues Act 1953.

23 Certain powers, &c., under certain Acts may be exercised by Second Assistant Secretary to the Treasury
  • [Repealed]

24 Special financial provisions respecting certain reserves for purpose of Post and Telegraph Department
  • [Repealed]

25 This Part to be read with Unemployment Act
  • [Repealed]

    Section 25 was repealed by section 48(1) Employment Promotion Act 1936.

26 Authorizing local authorities, with concurrence of Unemployment Board, to undertake work for benefit of private property
  • [Repealed]

    Section 26 was repealed by section 48(1) Employment Promotion Act 1936.

27 Cost of works may be recovered as rate from owner or occupier of any lands benefited thereby
  • [Repealed]

    Section 27 was repealed by section 48(1) Employment Promotion Act 1936.

28 Authorizing Minister of Public Works to carry out works in relief of unemployment
  • [Repealed]

    Section 28 was repealed by section 48(1) Employment Promotion Act 1936.

29 Unemployment-tax on salaries and wages not payable by persons who are not ordinarily resident in New Zealand
  • [Repealed]

    Section 29 was repealed by section 48(1) Employment Promotion Act 1936.

30 Section 17 of Amendment Act amended
  • [Repealed]

    Section 30 was repealed by section 48(1) Employment Promotion Act 1936.

31 Income received in but not derived from New Zealand liable for unemployment charge
  • [Repealed]

    Section 31 was repealed by section 48(1) Employment Promotion Act 1936.

32 Extending powers of Governor-General to make regulations
  • [Repealed]

    Section 32 was repealed by section 48(1) Employment Promotion Act 1936.

33 This Part to be Part of Education Act 1914
  • [Repealed]

    Section 33 was repealed by section 204(12) Education Act 1964.

34 Definition of terms correspondence school and correspondence classes
  • [Repealed]

    Section 34 was repealed by section 204(12) Education Act 1964.

35 Section 6 of principal Act amended
  • [Repealed]

    Section 35 was repealed by section 204(12) Education Act 1964.

36 Section 54 of principal Act amended
  • [Repealed]

    Section 36 was repealed by section 204(12) Education Act 1964.

37 Provisions as to enrolment, &c., of children in correspondence schools or classes
  • [Repealed]

    Section 37 was repealed by section 204(12) Education Act 1964.

38 Section 20 of Education Amendment Act 1920 amended
  • [Repealed]

    Section 38 was repealed by section 204(12) Education Act 1964.

39 Conditional authority to terminate employment of married women as teachers
  • [Repealed]

    Section 39 was repealed by section 204(12) Education Act 1964.

40 Exemptions from rating
  • [Repealed]

    Section 40 was repealed by section 204(12) Education Act 1964.

41 Section 7 of Public Service Superannuation Act 1927, amended
  • Section 41 was impliedly repealed by section 9(1) Superannuation Act 1947.

42 Extensions of section 14 of Finance Act 1931 (relating to superannuation rights of persons compulsorily retired from Government and other services)
  • [Repealed]

    Section 42 was repealed by section 91(1) Superannuation Act 1947.

43 Superannuation rights of General Manager of Railways
  • [Repealed]

    Section 43 was impliedly repealed by section 9(1) Superannuation Act 1947.

44 Savings of rights of contributors to superannuation funds under Local Authorities Superannuation Act 1908
  • [Repealed]

    Section 44 was repealed by section 8(1)(f) Finance Act 1956.

45 Authorizing grant to County Councils and certain Road Boards out of Main Highways Revenue Fund during current financial year
  • [Repealed]

    Section 45 was repealed by section 3(5) Finance Act (No 2) 1947.

46 Section 118 of Local Bodies Loans Act 1926 amended
  • [Repealed]

    Section 46 was repealed by section 135(1) Local Authorities Loans Act 1956.

47 Extension of time within which preparation of town planning schemes must be completed
  • [Repealed]

    Section 47 was repealed by section 53(1) Town and Country Planning Act 1953.

48 Extending power of local authorities to borrow under Part 2 of Hawke's Bay Earthquake Act 1931
  • [Spent]

49 Section 40 of Finance Act 1931 (No 2) amended
  • [Repealed]

    Section 49 was repealed by section 135(1) Local Authorities Loans Act 1956.

50 Authorising New Zealand Dairy-produce Export Control Board to expend money to assist herd-testing
  • [Repealed]

    Section 50 was repealed by section 2691) Dairy Board Act 1953.

51 Adjusting dates of elections of Licensing Committees
  • [Repealed]

    section 51 was repealed by section 33(2) Statutes Amendment Act 1938.

52 Provision with respect to contributions by local authorities to British Empire Cancer Campaign Society
  • [Spent]

53 Section 17 of Hawke's Bay Earthquake Act 1931 (prohibiting certain acts while proceedings pending in Adjustment Court), amended
  • [Spent]

54 Validating donation by Dunedin Savings-bank Trustees to the Dunedin City Mayor's Relief Fund
  • [Spent]

55 Governor-General in Council may grant temporary exemptions from section 50(4) of Friendly Societies Act 1909
  • [Repealed]

    Section 55 was repealed by section 40(2) Finance Act 1938.

56 Authorising Trustees of New Zealand Sheepowners' Acknowledgment of Debt to British Seaman Society to borrow £20,000
  • [Spent]