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Political Disabilities Removal Amendment Act 1950

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Passing of resolutions under principal Act.

Political Disabilities Removal Amendment Act 1950

Public Act		1950 No 35
Date of assent		26 October 1950

	Title
1	Short Title.
2	Passing of resolutions under principal Act.

An Act to Amend the Political Disabilities Removal Act, 1936.

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

1 Short Title.

1936, No. 23

This Act may be cited as the Political Disabilities Removal Amendment Act, 1950, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Political Disabilities Removal Act, 1936 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Passing of resolutions under principal Act.

1948, No. 77

(1)

Section four of the principal Act, as amended by section forty of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1948, is hereby further amended as follows:—

(a)

By inserting in subsection one, after the words “political objects if”, the words “a majority of”:

(b)

By repealing subsection one a.

(2)

Section four of the principal Act is hereby further amended by adding to subsection one the following proviso:—

“Provided that, in the case of a society in respect of which at the time of the taking of the ballot there is no provision in operation under any Act, regulation, award, industrial agreement, or other instrument whereby a person is obliged to become a member of the society as a condition of his lawful employment in any position or employment (not being merely a provision for preference for members of the society), any such resolution shall be deemed to have been duly passed if a majority of the total valid votes recorded at the ballot is in favour thereof.”

Repeal.

(3)

Section forty of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1948, is hereby repealed.

Political Disabilities Removal Amendment Act 1950