Ohai Railway Board Amendment Act 1947
Ohai Railway Board Amendment Act 1947
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Ohai Railway Board Amendment Act 1947
Ohai Railway Board Amendment Act 1947
Local Act |
1947 No 11 |
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Date of assent |
18 November 1947 |
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Contents
An Act to make Provision for altering the Constitution of the Ohai Railway Board.
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Short Title.
This Act may be cited as the Ohai Railway Board Amendment Act, 1947, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Ohai Railway Board Act, 1932 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Provision for appointment of two members of the Board by the Minister of Mines.
(1)
The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section four, and substituting the following section:—
“4
“(1)
Of the members of the Board two shall be appointed by the Minister of Mines and one shall be elected by the coal-owners.
“(2)
The members of the Board, other than any member appointed under this section, shall be elected in the manner prescribed by the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1925, all the provisions of which Act shall, so far as they are not inconsistent with the principal Act or this Act, apply accordingly.
“(3)
Each member of the Board appointed under this section shall hold office during the pleasure of the Minister of Mines, and, if for any reason the office of any such member becomes vacant, the Minister of Mines may appoint a member in the place of such before-mentioned member.”
(2)
Notwithstanding anything contained in this section, the members of the Board holding office on the passing of this Act shall, unless in the case of any such member his office sooner becomes vacant, continue in office until the day of the general election of members of the Board next following the passing of this Act; and every member of the Board appointed or elected under section four of the principal Act as enacted by subsection one of this section shall come into office on that day.
3 Section 6 of principal Act amended.
Section six of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the word “person”
in paragraph (b), the words “(other than the Crown)”
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Ohai Railway Board Amendment Act 1947
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