Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act 1932
Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act 1932
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Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act 1932
Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act 1932
Public Act |
1932 No 5 |
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Date of assent |
30 April 1932 |
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Contents
An Act for the Temporary Modification of certain Statutory Provisions disqualifying Defaulting Ratepayers from voting at Elections and Polls and from nominating or being nominated as Candidates for Election as Members of certain Local Authorities, and to continue in Office the Members of the Matakaoa County Council.
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 Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act, 1932.
2 Temporarily modifying provisions of Counties Act, 1920, and Electric-power Boards Act, 1925, &c., disqualifying ratepayers from voting, &c., on account of non-payment of rates.
(1)
While this section remains in force there shall not be entered on any fist prepared for the purposes of any election or poll, pursuant to section fifty-seven of the Counties Act, 1920, or section one hundred and seven of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1925, or any like provision of any other Act, the name of any person in respect of the non-payment of any rates becoming due at any time after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty, unless rates owing by such person at any time during the financial year ending on that date have been remitted or compounded.
Commencement and duration.
(2)
This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, shall remain in force until the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-three and shall then be deemed to be repealed.
3 Extending term of office of members of Matakaoa County Council.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section sixty-five of the Counties Act, 1920, a general election of members of the Matakaoa County Council shall not be held on the second Wednesday in May in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-two, and the members of that Council in office on the passing of this Act shall continue to hold office after that day in all respects as if they had been elected at a general election held on that day pursuant to the said section sixty-five.
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Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act 1932
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