New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) There shall be the following classes of membership of the Trust:
(a) ordinary subscribing members, being persons who subscribe annually to the Trust Fund the subscription for ordinary subscribing members:
(b) junior members, being persons under an age for the time being specified by the board (not being more than 18 years), who subscribe annually to the Trust Fund the subscription for junior members:
(ba) family members, being 2 or more persons whom the board regards as living at the same address as a family, and who subscribe annually to the Trust Fund the subscription for family membership:
(c) corporate members, being bodies corporate or being other associations or bodies for the time being approved for the purpose by the board, who subscribe annually to the Trust Fund the corporate subscription:
(d) life members, being persons who have subscribed to the Trust Fund the life subscription:
(e) benefactors, being persons who have given to the Trust money or property of such amount or value as the board by resolution determines to be sufficient to entitle those persons to be distinguished as benefactors:
(ea) honorary life members, being persons who have given to the Trust such service as the board by resolution determines to be sufficient to entitle those persons to be distinguished as honorary life members:
(eb) covenant life members, being owners, lessees, or lessors of land who have executed in favour of the Trust an open space covenant under section 22, and whom the board determines by resolution to be entitled to be distinguished as covenant life members:
(f) such other classes of membership as may be established under subsection (2).
(2) The Minister may from time to time, on the recommendation of the board, by notice in the Gazette, establish other classes of membership of the Trust on such conditions as may be specified in the notice.
(3) The board may from time to time, by notice published in the Gazette, determine the amount of any subscription payable by members of any class (other than benefactors, honorary life members, and covenant life members).
(4) A notice under subsection (3) may, in the case of the subscriptions payable by corporate members, specify different subscriptions for different categories of corporate members.
(5) A person who—
(a) pays to the Trust the appropriate subscription for any class of membership, and otherwise meets the requirements of the board in relation to that class; or
(b) meets the requirements of the board in relation to benefactors, honorary life members, or covenant life members—
shall on doing so become a member of the appropriate class of the Trust.
Section 5(1)(ba): inserted, on 30 March 1987, by section 2(1) of the Queen Elizabeth the Second National Trust Amendment Act 1987 (1987 No 51).
Section 5(1)(ea): inserted, on 30 March 1987, by section 2(2) of the Queen Elizabeth the Second National Trust Amendment Act 1987 (1987 No 51).
Section 5(1)(eb): inserted, on 30 March 1987, by section 2(2) of the Queen Elizabeth the Second National Trust Amendment Act 1987 (1987 No 51).
Section 5(2): substituted, on 30 March 1987, by section 2(3) of the Queen Elizabeth the Second National Trust Amendment Act 1987 (1987 No 51).
Section 5(3): amended, on 30 March 1987, by section 2(4) of the Queen Elizabeth the Second National Trust Amendment Act 1987 (1987 No 51).
Section 5(5)(b): amended, on 30 March 1987, by section 2(5) of the Queen Elizabeth the Second National Trust Amendment Act 1987 (1987 No 51).
