Incorporated Societies Amendment Act 1953
Incorporated Societies Amendment Act 1953
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Incorporated Societies Amendment Act 1953
Version as at 5 April 2026
Incorporated Societies Amendment Act 1953
Public Act |
1953 No 80 |
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Date of assent |
26 November 1953 |
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Incorporated Societies Amendment Act 1953: repealed, on 5 April 2026, pursuant to section 268 of the Incorporated Societies Act 2022 (2022 No 12).
Note
Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 have been made in this consolidation. See the notes at the end of this consolidation for further details.
This Act is administered by the Ministry of Justice.
Contents
An Act to amend the Incorporated Societies Act 1908
1 Short Title and commencement
(1)
This Act may be cited as the Incorporated Societies Amendment Act 1953, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Incorporated Societies Act 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
(2)
Except as provided in section 4, this Act shall come into force on the 1st day of April 1954.
2 Fees to be prescribed by regulations
(1)
This subsection substituted a new subsection (3) of s 33 of the principal Act.
(2)
(a)
This paragraph repealed Schedule 2 to the principal Act.
(b)
This paragraph amended s 7(b) of the principal Act.
(3)
Section 5 of the Incorporated Societies Amendment Act 1922 and the Schedule to that Act are hereby consequentially repealed.
3 Penalty for improper use of word “Incorporated”
If any society, not being a society incorporated under the principal Act, operates under any name or title of which the word “Incorporated”
, or any contraction or imitation of that word, is the last word, every member of the society shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2 for every day upon which that name or title has been used.
Section 3: amended, on 1 July 2013, by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).
Section 3 was amended, as from 10 July 1967, by section 7 Decimal Currency Act 1964 (1964 No 27) by substituting the expression “$2”
for the words “one pound”
.
4 Society may make regulations or bylaws
(1)
In addition to the matters specified in section 6 of the principal Act, the rules of any society may make provision for the making, amendment, or rescission of regulations or bylaws, not inconsistent with the principal Act or with the rules of the society, for such purposes as may be specified in that behalf in the rules.
(2)
The making, amendment, or rescission of any regulations or bylaws pursuant to any rules in accordance with this section shall not be deemed to be an alteration of the rules within the meaning of section 21 of the principal Act.
(3)
This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the date of the commencement of the principal Act.
Subsection (1) was amended, as from 27 October 1965, by section 3 Incorporated Societies Amendment Act 1965 (1965 No 88) by substituting the words “for the making, amendment, or rescission of”
for the words “empowering the society from time to time, by resolution in general meeting, to make, amend, or rescind”
.
Consolidation notes
1 General
This is a consolidation of the Incorporated Societies Amendment Act 1953 that incorporates all the amendments to that Act as at the date of the last amendment to it.
2 About this consolidation
This consolidation is not an official version of the legislation under section 78 of the Legislation Act 2019.
3 Amendments incorporated in this consolidation
Incorporated Societies Act 2022 (2022 No 12): section 268
Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81): section 413
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