New Zealand Geographic Board Act 1946

repealed
New Zealand Geographic Board Act 1946: repealed, on 1 November 2008, by section 37 of the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008 (2008 No 30).

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Reprint as at 1 November 2008

New Zealand Geographic Board Act 1946

Public Act	1946 No 3
Date of assent	9 August 1946

New Zealand Geographic Board Act 1946: repealed, on 1 November 2008, by section 37 of the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008 (2008 No 30).

Note

Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this eprint.

A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this eprint, together with other explanatory material about this eprint.

Contents

2 Interpretation

New Zealand Geographic Board

3 New Zealand Geographic Board established

4 Chairman of Board

5 Meetings of Board

6 Allowances and travelling expenses of members

7 Secretary of Board

Functions and powers of Board

8 Functions of Board

9 Board may assign or alter certain place names

10 Board may alter name of district with consent of territorial authority

11 Two or more boroughs, etc, with similar names

12 Notice of intention to assign or alter name

13 Objection to proposed name or alteration

14 If no objection, Board's decision to be final

15 Publication of final decision as to name or alteration

16 Rights or obligations of local authority not affected

17 Previous decisions of Honorary Geographic Board not affected

18 Names in maps, scientific manuscripts, or tourist publications

20 Repeals and savings

An Act to make better provision for the naming of places in New Zealand, and to establish the New Zealand Geographic Board

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—