This Act may be cited as the Dannevirke Hospital District Act, 1924, and shall commence on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, save that all elections, appointments, Orders in Council, notices, or regulations required for the purpose of bringing this Act into operation on that date may be held, made, or issued at any time after the passing of this Act.

There is hereby constituted a hospital district under the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, to be called the Dannevirke Hospital District, which shall comprise the counties of Dannevirke, Woodville, and Weber.

The boundaries of the Waipawa Hospital District are hereby altered by excluding therefrom the Dannevirke, Weber, and Woodville Counties.

Subject to the provisions of section nine of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, the Board of the Dannevirke Hospital District shall consist of such number of representatives of the contributory districts within the hospital district as the Governor-General, by Order in Council, from time to time determines.

The first election of members of the said Board shall be held on such day as the Governor-General, by Order in Council, appoints; and by the same or any subsequent Order in Council the Governor-General may make all such provisions as are deemed necessary for the purposes of that election.

The Governor-General shall, by Order in Council, determine what part (if any) of the property, contracts, debts, and liabilities of the Waipawa Hospital Board, as at the commencement of this Act, shall become the property, contracts, debts, and liabilities of the Dannevirke Hospital Board, and the said Order in Council shall have effect according to the tenor thereof.