New Zealand Legislation: Acts

5A War Pensions Advisory Board

• (1) There is hereby established a board to be called the War Pensions Advisory Board.

  (2) The Advisory Board shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal, and may hold real and personal property, and sue and be sued, and do and suffer all such acts and things as bodies corporate may lawfully do and suffer.

  (3) The Advisory Board shall consist of—

  • (a) the Secretary for War Pensions:

  • (b) the National President for the time being of the New Zealand Returned Services’ Association (Incorporated):

  • (c) a medical member (who shall be a medical practitioner) appointed by the Minister.

  Section 5A: inserted, on 1 April 1989, by section 4 of the War Pensions Amendment Act 1988 (1988 No 148).

  Section 5A(3)(b): amended, on 1 July 1999, by section 8 of the Veterans’ Affairs Act 1999 (1999 No 76).

  Section 5A(3)(c): amended, on 18 September 2004, by section 175(1) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (2003 No 48).