Legislature Amendment Act 1920
Legislature Amendment Act 1920
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Legislature Amendment Act 1920
Public Act |
1920 No 82 |
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Date of assent |
11 November 1920 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Legislature Act, 1908.
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 Legislature Amendment Act, 1920, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Legislature Act, 1908.
2 Section 25 of Legislature Amendment Act, 1914, amended.
(1.)
Section twenty-five of the Legislature Amendment Act, 1914, is hereby amended, as from the commencement of that Act, by repealing subsection two thereof, and substituting the following subsection:—
“(2.)
This section shall come into operation on a date to be appointed by the Governor-General by Proclamation.”
Repeal.
(2.)
The Maori Representation Act, 1919, is hereby repealed.
3 Definition of “contractor”
amended.
The definition of “contractor”
in sections two and twenty-four of the Legislature Act, 1908, is hereby amended by omitting paragraph (a) thereof, and substituting the following:—
(b.)
Any contract in writing for the acquisition by the Crown of any estate or interest in land:
“Provided that a copy of every such contract shall be laid upon the table of both Houses of Parliament within thirty days after the making thereof if Parliament is then in session, or, if Parliament is not then in session, then within thirty days after the commencement of the next ensuing session.”
4 Sections 18 and 19 of principal Act amended.
Sections eighteen and nineteen of the principal Act are hereby amended by omitting the words “five hundred and fifty”
wherever they occur, and substituting the words “one thousand two hundred and fifty.”
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