This Act may be cited as the Victoria University College Amendment Act, 1947, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Victoria University College Act, 1933 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Section five of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (h) of subsection two, and substituting the following new paragraph:—

The member of the Council appointed by the Professorial Board and holding office on the passing of this Act shall continue in office until his retirement pursuant to subsection two of section six of the principal Act.

The first additional member of the Council to be appointed by the Professorial Board by virtue of this section shall be appointed not later than the third Monday in June in the year nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and shall hold office until the expiry of the term of office of the other member appointed by the Professorial Board and holding office on the passing of this Act.

Section five of the principal Act is hereby further consequentially amended as follows:—

Subsection two of section five of the principal Act is hereby further amended by inserting, after paragraph (h), as set out in subsection one of section two of this Act, the following new paragraph:—

For the purposes of this section and of the principal Act the expression “the teaching staff” means the professors of the College, together with such of the full-time lecturers of the College as are for the time being entitled, pursuant to section forty-seven of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1944, to vote, as lecturers, at elections of members of the Academic Board of the University of New Zealand.

The election of the first member of the Council to be elected by members of the teaching staff shall be held not later than the first Monday in June in the year nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and the member so elected shall retire from office in the year nineteen hundred and forty-nine.

Subsection two of section six of the principal Act, as amended by subsection two of section sixty of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1938, is hereby further amended by omitting the expression “(h), and (j)”, and substituting the expression “(h), (hh), and (j)”.

Subsection one of section seven of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the words “or the representative of the teaching staff”.

Subsection one of section nine of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after paragraph (g), the following new paragraph:—

Subsection two of section sixty of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1938, is hereby repealed.

Section twenty-two of the principal Act, as amended by subsection four of section seventy-nine of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1946, is hereby further amended by inserting, after the words “for the time being” where those words first occur, the words “and of the representative of the teaching staff on the Council for the time being”.