This section shall be read together with and deemed part of the New Zealand Debt Conversion Act 1932–33 (hereinafter referred to in this section as “the principal Act”).

The Minister is hereby authorised, and shall be deemed to have been authorised as from the passing of the principal Act, to agree to the conversion of any existing securities bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 4% per annum, and also any existing securities in respect of which the places fixed as at 31 March 1933 for the payment of interest and for the repayment of principal are both beyond New Zealand.

Notwithstanding anything contained in the principal Act the Minister may agree, and shall be deemed to have been authorised as from the passing of the principal Act to agree, to the conversion from 31 March 1933 of any existing securities on such terms as to interest, date or dates of maturity, premium, or otherwise as may be mutually agreed upon between the Minister and the holder:

All New Zealand Government stock available for payment of death duties heretofore issued in conversion of existing securities is hereby declared to have been lawfully issued notwithstanding that the existing securities were not issued with the condition of availability for payment of death duties attached thereto.

The provisions of the Electoral Act 1927, or any other Act as to disqualification of members of Parliament, shall not apply to any payment which, under the authority of any appropriation now or hereafter made by Parliament, has been or may hereafter be received by any member of Parliament by way of remuneration for services rendered by him as a member of and in connection with a Committee appointed on 18 April 1933 to inquire into matters relating to the rating of Native lands.

For the purposes of section 18 of the Civil List Act 1920, the exemption from deduction for absence during the present session of Parliament for 14 sitting days shall in the case of the Honourable William Downie Stewart, and of WaIter Nash, Esquire, members of Parliament, be reckoned from 1 November 1933 and allowed accordingly, and the said members shall be deemed to have been unavoidably absent during the months of September and October while they were participating in international and inter-Empire conferences overseas.

Whereas by an Order in Council (hereinafter referred to as the said order), dated 18 September 1933 and published in the Gazette of 21 September 1933, the regulations then in force under the Native Trustee Act 1930 were varied in the manner set forth in the Schedule of the said order, as from 1 April 1932:

And whereas doubts have been expressed as to the validity of the said order:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The said order is hereby validated and declared to have taken effect according to its tenor as from the said 1 April 1932.

The payments out of the Consolidated Fund during the financial year ended 31 March 1933 to the Hairini Rabbit Board of the sum of 94 pounds 18 shillings and 11 pence, and to the Mangapiko Rabbit Board of the sum of 93 pounds 16 shillings, in each case by way of subsidy on general rates under section 70 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act 1928, are hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

All payments to members of Licensing Authorities under the Transport Licensing Act 1931, which would have been lawful if the Transport Licensing (Passenger-service) Regulations 1933, made under that Act and published in the Gazette of 13 April 1933, had been in force at the time or times such payments were made, are hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made.

On a date to be fixed in that behalf by the Governor-General by Order in Council (hereinafter referred to as the said date), the Kauri-gum Control Act 1925 (hereinafter referred to as the said Act), shall be deemed to be repealed, and on the said date all property of the Kauri-gum Control Board (hereinafter called the Board), constituted by the said Act, shall be vested in, and all rights, liabilities, and engagements of the Board shall become rights, liabilities, and engagements of, His Majesty.

For the purpose of enforcing any such right, or discharging any such liabilities and engagements, the Minister of Lands may exercise and perform any of the powers, duties, and obligations of the said Board in all respects as if the said Act had not been repealed.

All funds standing to the credit of any account of the Board at the said date, and all moneys received by the Minister of Lands under the last preceding subsection, shall be paid into a deposit account within the Consolidated Fund, and all moneys which after the said date would, but for the passing of this section, be payable to or by the Board shall be payable into or out of the said deposit account without further appropriation than this section.

Where, pursuant to the provisions of section 18 of the Government Railways Amendment Act 1931 work in connection with the construction of any Government railway or part thereof has been stopped, and no Proclamation taking the land affected has been issued, any person having any estate or interest in the land damaged or injuriously affected by such construction shall be entitled to claim compensation in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Act 1928 for such damage or injurious affection, notwithstanding that a claim has not been lodged within the time prescribed by the provisions of section 45 of the Public Works Act 1928:

Upon receipt of a notice from the Minister of Public Works that any claim for compensation in respect of the land specified therein (being land to which the last preceding subsection relates) has been settled, whether before or after the passing of this Act, the District Land Registrar shall (without fee) endorse on the title to the land affected a memorial accordingly, and it shall not be necessary to record the like memorial on the duplicate instrument of title.

Whereas the land hereinafter described forms portion of an area vested in His Majesty for housing purposes subject to the provisions of the Housing Act 1919 and known as the Northcote Settlement:

And whereas it is desirable to set aside the said land as a site for a public hall, and to vest the same in the Corporation of the County of Waimairi in trust for such purpose:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The setting apart of the land hereinafter described for the purposes of Part 1 of the Housing Act 1919 is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby permanently reserved as a site for a public hall, and declared to be vested in the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Waimairi in trust for that purpose.

The land to which this section relates is particularly described as follows:

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement twenty-four and seven-tenths perches, more or less, being Lot 7 of the Northcote Settlement, situated in Block VII, Christchurch Survey District, Canterbury Land District: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L and S 21/255, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington.

The Governor-General may by Order in Council fix a date on which the first general regrading of officers employed in the Public Service, the Post and Telegraph Department, or the Department constituted under the Government Railways Act 1926 shall be made after the passing of this Act, and may by the same or a subsequent Order in Council fix the date on which the several regradings shall take effect. Such last-mentioned date may be the date fixed for the making of the several regradings, or may be a date earlier or later than that date.

Every Order in Council under this section shall take effect according to its tenor, anything to the contrary in any other Act notwithstanding.

Part 2 of the National Expenditure Adjustment Act 1932 shall be deemed to have come into force on 1 April 1932.

The Public Trustee as administrator of the estate of James Thomson, late of Waihi, engine driver, who died intestate on 10 September 1929, is hereby authorised and directed to distribute the residue of the estate, after payment of all debts and death duties, as to one-third thereof to Catherine Thomson, and as to two-thirds thereof equally between James Silaci Thomson, of Waihi, electrician, Alexander Thomson, of Ellerslie, engineer, Archibald Thomson, of Dunedin, electrician, and Roy Maxwell Thomson, of Waihi, iron turner.

Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).

The trustees of the New Plymouth Savings-bank may in the current financial year out of the profits of the bank for that year make a donation of 100 pounds to the funds of the body in New Plymouth known as the Mayor’s Relief Council.

The trustees of the Auckland Savings-bank are hereby authorised, and shall be deemed to have been authorised at all relevant times heretofore, to pay out of the profits of the bank to the Waitangi Renovation and Improvement Fund Account of the Waitangi National Trust Board a sum or sums not exceeding 250 pounds.

Notwithstanding anything contained in the Savings-banks Act 1908, the Auckland Savings-bank may, with the consent of the Minister of Finance, pay to the Waikato Land Settlement Society, Incorporated, out of the profits of the bank, a sum or sums not exceeding in all the sum of 10,000 pounds, to be applied by such society for the objects thereof as set out in its rules as at the date of incorporation, and any such sums heretofore so paid with such consent shall be deemed to have been lawfully so paid.

Where any savings bank established under the Savings-banks Act 1908 has since 1 April 1932, but prior to the passing of this Act, made any duly authorised donations out of the profits of such bank for the year ended 31 March 1932 or out of moneys specifically set aside for the purpose out of its profits for the year ended 31 March 1933, the amount of such donation shall be allowed as an expense in arriving at the assessable income of the bank for the year ended on such last-mentioned date.