(1) There is hereby established a Commission to be called the Hillary Commission for Sport, Fitness, and Leisure.
(2) The Commission shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall be capable of acquiring, holding, and disposing of real and personal property, and of suing and being sued, and of doing and suffering all other things that bodies corporate may lawfully do and suffer.
(3) The Commission shall be a Crown agency for the purposes of the Public Finance Act 1989, and, notwithstanding anything in section 1(3A) of that Act, Part 5 of that Act shall apply to the Commission as if that Part of the Act had come into force on the commencement of this subsection.
This Act was repealed as from 1 January 2003, by section 63 Sport and Recreation New Zealand Act 2002 (2002 No 38). See clause 2 Sport and Recreation New Zealand Act Commencement Order 2002 (SR 2002/376).
Subsection (1) was amended, as from 1 July 1992, by section 4(1) Sport, Fitness, and Leisure Amendment Act 1992 (1992 No 18) by substituting the words “Sport, Fitness, and Leisure”
for the words “Recreation and Sport”
.
Subsection (3) was inserted, as from 1 July 1992, by section 4(2) Sport, Fitness, and Leisure Amendment Act 1992 (1992 No 18). See section 4(3) of that Act.