This Act may be cited as the New Zealand Society of Accountants Amendment Act, 1909, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the New Zealand Society of Accountants Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Notwithstanding anything in the principal Act, every person who has, not later than the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and nine, applied in writing to the Board to be registered as a member of the Society, and whose application has not been granted, may, at any time not later than the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, apply to the Council to be so registered; and in every such case the Council, in respect of such application, shall perform the duties and may exercise the powers imposed on and exercisable by the Board under the principal Act.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the principal Act, any person may, not later than the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, apply to the Council to be registered in respect of a qualification possessed by him prior to the passing of the principal Act; and in every such case the Council shall perform the duties and may exercise the powers imposed on and exercisable by the Board under the principal Act.

Every application under section two of this Act shall be in writing, and the statements made therein shall be verified by a statutory declaration made by the applicant.

No such application shall be granted unless it is received at the office of the secretary to the Society on or before the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, unless the Council is satisfied that there is some sufficient justification or excuse for the delay, in which case the application shall be treated as if made in time.

Every such application shall be accompanied by a fee of twenty-one shillings, which shall be returned to the applicant if such application is refused, but shall otherwise be deemed the fee payable to the Society on the admission of the applicant as a member of the Society under subsection one of section thirty of the principal Act.

Any applicant who is dissatisfied with the determination of the Council in respect of any such application may appeal from that determination to the Supreme Court. Notice of appeal shall be lodged in the Supreme Court within fourteen days from the date of the determination appealed from.

No person who has, pursuant to subsection two of section ten of the principal Act, lodged in the Supreme Court notice of appeal against the determination of the Board shall be affected by or entitled to any benefit under this Act if his appeal shall have been heard and determined before the passing of this Act, or if he does not within fourteen days after the passing of this Act apply to the Council in manner hereby provided. Every such person who shall apply to the Council under the provisions of this Act shall be deemed to have abandoned his appeal.