This Act may be cited as the Milk Amendment Act 1953, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Milk Act 1944 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

The Central Milk Council, as reconstituted by section four of the Milk Amendment Act 1951, shall hereafter be known as the New Zealand Milk Board.

All references to the Central Milk Council in any Act, regulation, rule, by-law, order, or other enactment, or in any contract, agreement, deed, instrument, application, licence, notice, or other document whatsoever shall hereafter be read as references to the New Zealand Milk Board, which is hereby declared for all purposes to be the same body corporate as the Central Milk Council.

Subsection one of section two of the principal Act is hereby consequentially amended by repealing the definition of the expressions “Council” and “Central Milk Council”.

Section four of the Milk Amendment Act 1951 is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (e) of subsection one, and substituting the following paragraphs:

The said section four is hereby further amended by omitting from subsection one the words “seven members”, and substituting the words “eight members”.

Section five of the said Act is hereby consequentially amended by omitting from subsection one the words “except in the case of the member deemed to be representing the interests of women and children, who shall be appointed on the recommendation of the Minister for the Welfare of Women and Children”.

Section nine of the Milk Amendment Act 1951 is hereby amended by repealing subsection four, and substituting the following subsections:

The Milk Amendment Act 1951 is hereby amended by inserting, after section ten, the following section:

The Milk Amendment Act 1951 is hereby further amended by repealing section eleven, and substituting the following section:

The Milk Amendment Act 1951 is hereby further amended by inserting, after section fourteen, the following section:

Section fourteen of the Milk Amendment Act 1951 is hereby amended by adding to subsection one the following paragraphs:

The said section fourteen is hereby further amended by adding the following subsection:

Section fifteen of the said Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the word “functions”, in both places where that word occurs, the words “and powers”.

Section sixteen of the Milk Amendment Act 1951 is hereby repealed.

The Milk Amendment Act 1951 is hereby further amended by repealing section seventeen, and substituting the following section:

Section twenty-two of the Milk Amendment Act 1951 is hereby consequentially amended by omitting from subsection three the words “subsections four, six, and seven”, and substituting the words “subsections four to six”.

Section eighteen of the Milk Amendment Act 1951 is hereby amended as follows:

The said section eighteen is hereby further amended by adding to subsection one the following proviso:

The said section eighteen is hereby further amended by inserting, after subsection two, the following subsection:

Section twenty-three of the Milk Amendment Act 1951 is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection four, the following subsection:

The said section twenty-three is hereby further amended as follows:

The said section twenty-three is hereby further amended by adding to subsection six the following proviso:

This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of September, nineteen hundred and fifty-three.

The Milk Amendment Act 1951 is hereby further amended by repealing section twenty-five, and substituting the following section:

The Central Milk Council Account established at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand under the Milk Amendment Act 1951 is hereby abolished.

All moneys standing to the credit of the Central Milk Council Account at the passing of this Act shall be transferred to and form part of the Milk Industry Account.

All moneys which, if this section had not been passed, would have been payable into or out of the Central Milk Council Account shall be paid into or out of the Milk Industry Account.

The Milk Amendment Act 1951 is hereby further amended by repealing section twenty-six, and substituting the following section:

The Milk Amendment Act 1951 is hereby further amended by inserting, after section twenty-six (as substituted by the last preceding section), the following section:

The Milk Amendment Act 1951 is hereby further amended by repealing section twenty-seven (as substituted by subsection one of section ten of the Fees and Travelling Allowances Act 1951), and substituting the following section:

The Second Schedule to the Fees and Travelling Allowances Act 1951 is hereby consequentially amended by repealing so much thereof as relates to the Milk Amendment Act 1951.

Section one hundred and eight of the principal Act, as amended by section ten of the Marketing Amendment Act 1948 and section two of the Marketing Amendment Act 1953, is hereby further amended by omitting from subsection one the words “any member thereof and any officer of the Department of Agriculture”, and substituting the words “any member or officer thereof”.

The Schedule to the Marketing Amendment Act 1948 is hereby consequentially amended by repealing so much thereof as relates to section one hundred and eight of the principal Act.

Section one hundred and ten of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection one, and also from subsection two, the word “Director”, and substituting in each case the words “Chairman or another member or any officer”.

Section one hundred and twelve of the principal Act (as substituted by section thirty-three of the Milk Amendment Act 1951) is hereby amended as follows:

The first report, statement of accounts, and balance sheet to be prepared by the New Zealand Milk Board after the passing of this Act shall be for the period that commenced on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, and ends on the thirty-first day of August, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and that period shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act and of the principal Act to be the financial year of the Board ending on the last-mentioned date.

Section ten of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (b) the word “Director”, and substituting the words “New Zealand Milk Board”.

Section fifty-four of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the word “Director”, and substituting the words “New Zealand Milk Board”.

Section sixty-five a of the principal Act (as inserted by section forty-five of the Milk Amendment Act 1951) is hereby amended by omitting from subsection eight the words “and may increase the specified gallonage in respect of that milk round by an amount equivalent to the amount in respect of which such consideration is payable”, and substituting the following words: “In imposing the condition the Milk Authority shall state whether the consideration to be paid by the licensee is charged by way of purchase price for the goodwill of the excess gallonage to which the consideration relates or is charged by way of rental therefor. Where the consideration is charged by way of purchase price, the Milk Authority shall increase the specified gallonage in respect of that milk round by an amount equivalent to the excess gallonage to which the consideration relates”.

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section one hundred and thirteen, the following section:

Section one hundred and twenty of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:

The said section one hundred and twenty is hereby amended by omitting from subsection one the words “the next succeeding subsection”, and substituting the words “this section”.

All documents made and all things whatsoever done by or on behalf of the Central Milk Council before the passing of this Act which could have been made or done by or on behalf of the New Zealand Milk Board if this Act had then been in force are hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made and done.