Section twenty of the Canterbury University College Act 1933, is hereby amended by repealing the proviso thereto.

Any District Court Judge may at any time, on the application of any person, made ex parte or otherwise, revoke or vary any order of guardianship made under section eighteen of the Destitute Persons Act 1910.

This section and the next four succeeding sections shall be read together with and deemed part of the Electric-power Boards Act 1925 (hereinafter in those sections referred to as the principal Act).

Section fifty-one of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection three the words “within the electric-power district”, and substituting the words “within or beyond the electric-power district”.

Section seventy-six of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection two the words “of the local authority of any constituent district”, and substituting the words “of any local authority”.

(1) Any authority given to a Board under section seventy-six of the principal Act to purchase any electric works the property of a local authority may include authority to purchase any securities belonging to the Depreciation Fund established by the local authority in relation to those electric works, and upon such authority being given the local authority, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, shall have power to sell any such securities to the Board and to receive the purchase price therefor, subject to such conditions (if any) as may be imposed by the Governor-General in Council.

(2) All securities purchased by any Board under this section shall be transferred by the Depreciation Fund Commissioners of the local authority to the Depreciation Fund Commissioners appointed by the Board under section twenty-one of the Electric-power Boards Amendment Act 1927, and shall thereafter form part of the Depreciation Fund administered by them.

(3) Any sale and purchase of securities made before the passing of this Act that by virtue of this section would have been valid and lawful if the purchase had been made after the passing of this Act and had been authorized by the Governor-General in Council shall be deemed to have been validly made, and any securities so purchased shall be deemed to have been purchased under this section.

(4) For the purposes of this section the term “securities” includes moneys and investments of money.

Any Electric-power Board may from time to time borrow moneys by way of special loan under the Local Bodies' Loans Act 1926, by special order, and without taking the steps prescribed by sections nine to thirteen of that Act, for all or any of the following purposes:—

• (a) Making advances to the owners of any premises for the purpose of enabling them to do all things necessary to connect their premises with the Board's electric works, or for the purpose of assisting them to purchase motors, fittings, machinery, and other equipment for the use of electric energy in their premises:

• (b) Installing motors, electric wires, electric lamps, and other fittings and equipment in exercise of the powers conferred on the Board by section one hundred and eighteen of the principal Act:

• (c) Purchasing motors, fittings, machinery, and other equipment for sale or lease in exercise of the powers conferred on the Board by section one hundred and twenty of the principal Act:

• (d) Acquiring land and erecting dwellings in exercise of the powers conferred on the Board by paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection one of section one hundred and twenty-two of the principal Act.

(1) This section shall be read together with and deemed part of the Electric-power Boards and Supply Authorities Association Act 1930 (hereinafter in this section referred to as the principal Act).

(2) The President of the Electric-power Boards and Supply Authorities Association of New Zealand established under the principal Act (hereinafter in this section referred to as the Association) may be paid out of the funds of the Association such annual allowance, not exceeding four hundred dollars, as may from time to time be fixed by the Association, but no alteration in the amount of the allowance shall take effect during the term of office of any President. The receipt of an allowance under this section shall not constitute a disqualification from election or a cause of forfeiture of office as a member of any Board or Supply Authority.

(3) For the purposes of this section a person re-elected as President shall be deemed to be a new President.

(4) This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of June, nineteen hundred and thirty-six.

(1) Section forty-four of the Licensing Act 1908, is hereby amended by omitting from subsection one the words “on the second Tuesday in March, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and on the same day in every third year thereafter”, and substituting the words “on the second Tuesday in March next following every licensing poll”.

(2) The Licensing Poll Postponement Act 1931, section fifty-one of the Finance Act 1931 (No 4), and subsection two of section two of the Electoral Amendment Act 1934, are hereby repealed.

(1) Section eight of the Life Insurance Act 1908 (hereinafter in this section referred to as the principal Act), is hereby amended as follows:—

• (a) By omitting from subsection one all the words after the words “by the company”, and substituting the words “and for the time being in force”:

• (b) By repealing subsection two.

(2) Section nine of the principal Act is hereby consequentially repealed.

(3) Section eleven of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (b) of subsection one the words “policies on the register”, and substituting the words “policies and other contracts issued, granted, or entered into in New Zealand by the company and still in force”.

(4) Section twelve of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (c) of subsection one the words “policies on the register”, and substituting the words “policies and other contracts issued, granted, or entered into in New Zealand by the company and still in force”.

(1) This section shall be read together with and deemed part of the Mining Act 1926 (hereinafter in this section referred to as the principal Act).

(2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section one hundred and six of the principal Act, the Warden may grant mineral licenses under that section in respect of any land outside a mining district that is not private land or Maori land or land exempt from the provisions of the principal Act:

Provided that no mineral license shall be granted over any land that is not Crown land unless the consent in writing of the lessee and the occupier of the land has been obtained and is deposited with the Warden.

(3) Section one hundred and six of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (f), and substituting the following paragraph:—

(1) This section shall be read together with and deemed part of the New Zealand Institute of Architects Act 1913 (hereinafter in this section referred to as the principal Act).

(2) Any person who has, whether before or after the passing of this Act, ceased to be a member of the Institute may apply to be re-registered as a member of the Institute, and all the provisions of the principal Act as to registration shall so far as they are applicable apply to re-registration under this section:

Provided that any qualification which was a sufficient qualification for registration when the applicant was originally registered shall be a sufficient qualification for re-registration in accordance with this section.

(3) Subject to the provisions of section eleven of the principal Act as to appeals, the Council may refuse any application for re-registration under this section or may grant it either unconditionally or upon or subject to such conditions as the Council thinks fit.

Section three of the Opticians Act 1928, is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (b) of subsection two, and substituting the following paragraph:—

Section three of the Physical Welfare and Recreation Act 1937, is hereby amended, as from the passing of that Act, by omitting from paragraph (f) of subsection two the word “ten”, and substituting the word “twelve”.

(1) This section shall be read together with and deemed part of the Police Offences Act 1927.

(2) If any person makes, or causes to be made, or uses for any purpose whatsoever, or utters, any document purporting to be, or in any way resembling, or so nearly resembling as to be calculated to deceive, any bank-note, or any part thereof, he shall be guilty of an offence against this section and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding ten dollars, and it shall be lawful for the Court dealing with the case to order the document in respect of which the offence was committed, and any copies of that document, or any plates, blocks, dies, or other instruments used for, or capable of being used for, printing or reproducing any such document which are in the possession of the offender to be destroyed.

(3) If any person whose name appears on any document the making of which is an offence under this section refuses, without lawful excuse, to disclose to a constable on being so required the name and address of the person by whom it was printed or otherwise made, he shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty dollars.

(4) The fact that the name of any person appears on any document in respect of which any person is charged with an offence under subsection two of this section, or on any other document used or distributed in connection with that document, shall, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be sufficient evidence that the first-mentioned person caused the document to be made.

(5) For the purposes of this section the term bank-note has the same meaning as in section two hundred and eighty-eight of the Crimes Act 1908.

(1) Any local authority which has (whether before or after the passing of this Act) added to unpaid rates the additional charge of ten per centum referred to in section seventy-six of the Rating Act 1925, may, with respect to any particular ratepayers or ratepayers, other remit the charge, or any part thereof, or postpone the time for payment of the charge, or any part thereof, for such period as it thinks fit.

(2) The powers conferred by this section may be exercised in respect of all rates or any particular rate or rates.

(3) The local authority shall not exercise any power conferred by this section unless it is satisfied that undue hardship would otherwise be caused to the ratepayer.

(4) The powers conferred by this section may be exercised by the Minister of Lands in respect of rates made and levied by him under the authority of any of the following enactments—namely, the Rangitaiki Land Drainage Act 1910, the Hauraki Plains Act 1926, and the Swamp Drainage Amendment Act 1928.

This section and the next two succeeding sections shall be read together with and deemed part of the Victoria University College Act 1933 (hereinafter in those sections referred to as the principal Act).

(1) Section five of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding to subsection two the following paragraph:—

(2) Section six of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection two the expression “and (h)”, and substituting the expression “(h), and (j)”.

(3) The first member of the Council to be appointed by the Executive of the Victoria University College Students' Association (Incorporated) shall be appointed not later than the third Monday in June, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and shall retire from office in the year nineteen hundred and forty-one.

Section twenty of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing the proviso thereto.