This Act may be cited as the Auckland War Memorial Museum Maintenance Amendment Act, 1945, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Auckland War Memorial Museum Maintenance Act, 1928 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Section three of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting therefrom the words “five thousand seven hundred pounds”, and substituting the words “ten thousand six hundred and sixty-eight pounds”.

The first payment of contributions at the increased rate shall be made on the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty-six.

Section four of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting therefrom the words “five thousand seven hundred pounds”, and substituting the words “ten thousand six hundred and sixty-eight pounds”.

Section seven of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the word “annually”, and substituting the word “triennially”.

If and so long as the Birkenhead Borough Council, the Devonport Borough Council, the Northcote Borough Council, and the Takapuna Borough Council shall contribute to the Institute and Museum the respective amounts payable by them in accordance with the provisions of the principal Act as hereby amended, the members of such four local bodies shall be entitled to elect to the executive council or body controlling the affairs of the Institute and Museum one representative from the members of such four local bodies.

Nominations for such representative shall be lodged with the secretary to the Institute and Museum not later than one calendar month after the date of every triennial election of Councillors of the said four local bodies, and each of the said four local bodies may nominate one representative.

Each member of the said four local bodies shall have one vote, and the election shall be under the control of the secretary to the Institute and Museum, who shall act as returning officer; and such election shall be held on a day to be appointed by the Institute and Museum, being not later than fourteen days after the last day for the lodging of nominations; and not less than four weeks’ notice of the day fixed for such election shall be forwarded by the secretary to the Institute and Museum to each of the said four local bodies.

The candidate who receives the greatest number of votes at such election shall be deemed to be the representative of the said four local bodies for the ensuing three years.

Section eight of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting therefrom the words “(exclusive of the Auckland City Council)”, and substituting the words “(exclusive of the Auckland City Council, the Birkenhead Borough Council, the Devonport Borough Council, the Northcote Borough Council, and the Takapuna Borough Council)”.

Section nine of the principal Act, as amended by section two of the Auckland War Memorial Museum Maintenance Amendment Act, 1931, is hereby further amended as follows:—

Section two of the Auckland War Memorial Museum Maintenance Amendment Act, 1931, is hereby consequentially repealed.

The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, on the petition of the Board and with the consent of the local body concerned, declare any local body not included in the Schedule to the principal Act to be a contributing body for the purposes of the principal Act, and thereafter the principal Act shall apply as if the name of such local body were included in the Schedule thereto.

A local body declared to be a contributing body pursuant to this section shall be liable for its first contribution on the thirtieth day of June next following the issue of such Order in Council.

No fresh election of representatives shall become necessary by reason only of the issue of an Order in Council under this section.

For the purposes of this section, “extraordinary vacancy” means a vacancy occurring in the office of representative otherwise than by expiry of term of office.

In the event of an extraordinary vacancy occurring in the first two years of the term of office of the representative whose seat has been vacated, the vacancy may be filled as follows:—

In the case of any election pursuant to this section, nominations shall be lodged with the secretary to the Institute and Museum not later than one calendar month after the fact of the vacancy comes to the knowledge of the secretary, and the election shall be held on a day to be appointed by the Institute and Museum, being not later than fourteen days after the last day for the lodging of nominations; and not less than two weeks’ notice of the last day for the lodging of nominations and four weeks’ notice of the day fixed for the election shall be forwarded by the secretary to the Institute and Museum to each of the electing local bodies.

In all other respects all the provisions of the principal Act as hereby amended shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to any such election.

In the event of an extraordinary vacancy occurring in the last year of the term of office of the representative whose seat has been vacated, the vacancy may be filled by the executive council or body controlling the affairs of the Institute and Museum.