Queen Elizabeth the Second Postgraduate Fellowship of New Zealand Act 1963

Reprint
as at 1 July 2009

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Queen Elizabeth the Second Postgraduate Fellowship of New Zealand Act 1963

Public Act1963 No 2
Date of assent12 February 1963
Commencement12 February 1963
Note

Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.

A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.

This Act is administered by the Ministry of Education.

An Act to establish the Queen Elizabeth the Second Postgraduate Fellowship of New Zealand and to make provision with respect to the Fellowship

  • Whereas Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, has graciously agreed to accept a gift from the Maori people of New Zealand to be devoted, in accordance with the wishes of Her Majesty, to the advancement of the Maori people so that all the people of New Zealand may benefit:

    And whereas the gift is to take the form of a Fellowship to be known, in accordance with the gracious approval of Her Majesty heretofore duly given, as the Queen Elizabeth the Second Postgraduate Fellowship of New Zealand:

    And whereas the principal terms relating to the Fellowship are contained in a Memorial, a copy of which is set out in the Schedule, presented to Her Majesty at Waitangi on 6 February 1963:

    And whereas it is necessary to make provision with respect to the Fellowship.

1 Short Title

  • This Act may be cited as the Queen Elizabeth the Second Postgraduate Fellowship of New Zealand Act 1963.

2 Fellowship established

  • There is hereby established a Fellowship to be known as the Queen Elizabeth the Second Postgraduate Fellowship of New Zealand (in this Act referred to as the Fellowship).

3 Māori Trustee to make annual payments in respect of Fellowship

  • (1) The Māori Trustee shall in the financial year commencing on 1 April 1963, and in each financial year thereafter, pay out of the General Purposes Fund established under the Maori Trustee Act 1953 to the Maori Education Trust the sum of $3,000.

    (2) The annual payment referred to in subsection (1) shall be in addition to any payment by the Māori Trustee to the Maori Education Trust under subsection (1A) of section 32 of the Maori Trustee Act 1953 (as inserted by section 17 of the Maori Purposes Act 1961).

    (3) The annual payment referred to in subsection (1) shall be used by the Maori Education Trust for the purposes of maintaining the Fellowship.

    Section 3 heading: amended, on 1 July 2009, by section 30(1) of the Māori Trustee Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 12).

    Section 3(1): amended, on 1 July 2009, by section 30(1) of the Māori Trustee Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 12).

    Section 3(1): amended, on 1 October 1993, pursuant to section 5(4) of the Maori Education Foundation (Abolition) Act 1993 (1993 No 53).

    Section 3(1): amended, on 16 October 1978, by section 8(a) of the Maori Purposes Act 1978 (1978 No 70).

    Section 3(2): amended, on 1 July 2009, by section 30(1) of the Māori Trustee Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 12).

    Section 3(2): amended, on 1 October 1993, pursuant to section 5(4) of the Maori Education Foundation (Abolition) Act 1993 (1993 No 53).

    Section 3(3): amended, on 1 October 1993, pursuant to section 5(4) of the Maori Education Foundation (Abolition) Act 1993 (1993 No 53).

4 Provisions with respect to Fellowship

  • (1) The Fellowship shall, as far as appears practicable to the Board of Trustees of the Maori Education Trust, be awarded equally between graduates who are Maoris and graduates who are not Maoris.

    (2) The Fellowship shall be awarded at a rate equivalent to 1 award in each year.

    (3) The value of each award of the Fellowship shall be at a rate not exceeding $3,000 a year.

    (4) Where an award of the Fellowship is made to the same person for a period in excess of 1 year, the number of times which the Fellowship has been awarded to that person shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be the number of complete years during which the Fellowship is tenable by him.

    (5) The Fellowship shall be awarded for the purpose of enabling postgraduate research or study of benefit to the Maori people and shall be awarded to those graduates who, in the opinion of the Board of Trustees of the Maori Education Trust, are best qualified to conduct that research or to pursue that study.

    (6) Each award of a Fellowship may be subject to such terms and conditions not inconsistent with this Act as may seem appropriate to the Board of Trustees.

    Section 4(1): amended, on 1 October 1993, pursuant to section 5(4) of the Maori Education Foundation (Abolition) Act 1993 (1993 No 53).

    Section 4(3): amended, on 16 October 1978, by section 8(b) of the Maori Purposes Act 1978 (1978 No 70).

    Section 4(5): amended, on 1 October 1993, pursuant to section 5(4) of the Maori Education Foundation (Abolition) Act 1993 (1993 No 53).

Schedule
The Queen Elizabeth the Second Postgraduate Fellowship of New Zealand

To Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith,

With humble duty,

Greetings

Whereas the sixth day of February is the anniversary of both Your Majesty's succession to the Throne in the year nineteen hundred and fifty-two, and the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in the year eighteen hundred and forty:

And whereas Your Majesty's loyal subjects, the Maori people of New Zealand, desire to commemorate the honour of Your visit on that anniversary with a gift:

And whereas Your Majesty has graciously agreed to accept a gift which can be utilised to the benefit and in the interest of the Maori and other people of New Zealand:

Now therefore the Maori people of New Zealand do hereby institute and present to Your Majesty a fellowship to be known, in accordance with the gracious approval of Your Majesty heretofore duly given, as the Queen Elizabeth the Second Postgraduate Fellowship of New Zealand, to be devoted, in accordance with the wishes of Your Majesty, to the advancement of the Maori people so that all the people of New Zealand may benefit; the fellowship to be awarded equally between graduates who are Maoris and those who are not Maoris at a rate equivalent to one award in each year, to be of a value not exceeding one thousand pounds, and to be administered by the Maori Education Foundation.

In witness whereof this Memorial has been signed at Waitangi, this sixth day of February, 1963.

For and on behalf of the Maori people,

A T Carroll,

Chairman of the New Zealand Maori Council.

Contents

  • 1General

  • 2Status of reprints

  • 3How reprints are prepared

  • 4Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989

  • 5List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)

Notes
1 General

  • This is a reprint of the Queen Elizabeth the Second Postgraduate Fellowship of New Zealand Act 1963. The reprint incorporates all the amendments to the Act as at 1 July 2009, as specified in the list of amendments at the end of these notes.

    Relevant provisions of any amending enactments that contain transitional, savings, or application provisions that cannot be compiled in the reprint are also included, after the principal enactment, in chronological order. For more information, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/reprints/ .

2 Status of reprints

  • Under section 16D of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by the amendments to that enactment. This presumption applies even though editorial changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in the reprint.

    This presumption may be rebutted by producing the official volumes of statutes or statutory regulations in which the principal enactment and its amendments are contained.

3 How reprints are prepared

  • A number of editorial conventions are followed in the preparation of reprints. For example, the enacting words are not included in Acts, and provisions that are repealed or revoked are omitted. For a detailed list of the editorial conventions, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/ or Part 8 of the Tables of New Zealand Acts and Ordinances and Statutory Regulations and Deemed Regulations in Force.

4 Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989

  • Section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 authorises the making of editorial changes in a reprint as set out in sections 17D and 17E of that Act so that, to the extent permitted, the format and style of the reprinted enactment is consistent with current legislative drafting practice. Changes that would alter the effect of the legislation are not permitted.

    A new format of legislation was introduced on 1 January 2000. Changes to legislative drafting style have also been made since 1997, and are ongoing. To the extent permitted by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, all legislation reprinted after 1 January 2000 is in the new format for legislation and reflects current drafting practice at the time of the reprint.

    In outline, the editorial changes made in reprints under the authority of section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 are set out below, and they have been applied, where relevant, in the preparation of this reprint:

    • •omission of unnecessary referential words (such as “of this section” and “of this Act”)

    • •typeface and type size (Times Roman, generally in 11.5 point)

    • •layout of provisions, including:

      • •indentation

      • •position of section headings (eg, the number and heading now appear above the section)

    • •format of definitions (eg, the defined term now appears in bold type, without quotation marks)

    • •format of dates (eg, a date formerly expressed as “the 1st day of January 1999” is now expressed as “1 January 1999”)

    • •position of the date of assent (it now appears on the front page of each Act)

    • •punctuation (eg, colons are not used after definitions)

    • •Parts numbered with roman numerals are replaced with arabic numerals, and all cross-references are changed accordingly

    • •case and appearance of letters and words, including:

      • •format of headings (eg, headings where each word formerly appeared with an initial capital letter followed by small capital letters are amended so that the heading appears in bold, with only the first word (and any proper nouns) appearing with an initial capital letter)

      • •small capital letters in section and subsection references are now capital letters

    • •schedules are renumbered (eg, Schedule 1 replaces First Schedule), and all cross-references are changed accordingly

    • •running heads (the information that appears at the top of each page)

    • •format of two-column schedules of consequential amendments, and schedules of repeals (eg, they are rearranged into alphabetical order, rather than chronological).

5 List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)

  • Māori Trustee Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 12): section 30(1)

    Maori Education Foundation (Abolition) Act 1993 (1993 No 53): section 5(4)

    Maori Purposes Act 1978 (1978 No 70): section 8