This Act may be cited as the River Boards Amendment Act, 1934, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the River Boards Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Except as provided in the next succeeding subsection, a general election of members of River Boards shall be held on the second Wednesday in May, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, and on the same day in every third year thereafter.

Where a general election of the members of any Board has been held within twelve months before the date fixed pursuant to the last preceding subsection for the holding of a general election, it shall not be necessary to hold an election of members of that Board on the date so fixed, and the members of the Board in office on that date shall remain in office in all respects as if they were elected at a general election held on the said date.

Sections twenty-five and twenty-seven of the principal Act are hereby repealed.

Section forty-seven of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “Tuesday in January”, and substituting the words “Wednesday in May”.

Section nine of the River Boards Amendment Act, 1913, is hereby amended, as from the passing of that Act, by adding the following subsection:—