Voting powers in respect of election of members

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Dairy Board Amendment Act 1958

Public Act		1958 No 62
Date of assent		2 October 1958

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Voting powers in respect of election of members

An Act to amend the Dairy Board Act 1953

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

This Act may be cited as the Dairy Board Amendment Act 1958, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Dairy Board Act 1953 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Voting powers in respect of election of members

Section nine of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsections six and seven, and substituting the following subsections:

“(6)

The Returning Officer shall compute the value of all votes received by him within the appointed time as follows:

“(a)

In respect of each company entitled to vote he shall ascertain—

“(i)

The quantity of butter, cheese, and other products of milk or cream manufactured by the company at any dairy factory or factories within the ward during the last preceding financial year of the company;

“(ii)

The quantity of butterfat received by the company at any dairy factory or factories engaged in the manufacture of casein or skim milk powder (not being also engaged in the manufacture of butter) within the ward during the last preceding financial year of the company.

“For the purposes of this paragraph a certificate under the hand of the Government Statistician as to the quantity of butterfat received, or the quantity of butter, cheese, or other such products manufactured, as the case may be, at any dairy factory during the said period shall be accepted by the Returning Officer as conclusive evidence of the facts certified to:

“(b)

The Returning Officer shall then proceed to ascertain, in accordance with the following provisions of this section, the value, expressed in terms of tonnage votes, of the votes recorded by the several companies.

“(7)

For the purposes of paragraph (b) of subsection six of this section the vote recorded by any company shall be expressed in terms of tonnage votes as follows:

“(a)

For every ton of butter manufactured by the company at any dairy factory or factories within the ward in the period referred to in subsection six of this section, the company shall be entitled to one tonnage vote:

“Provided that where any butter has been manufactured by the company in that period from butterfat received from any company engaged in the manufacture of casein or skim milk powder, there shall be deducted from the number of tonnage votes to which the first-mentioned company is entitled under the provisions of this paragraph the number of tonnage votes to which the second-mentioned company is entitled, pursuant to paragraph (b) of this subsection, in respect of that butterfat:

“(b)

For every two thousand pounds of butterfat received by the company in the period referred to in subsection six of this section at any dairy factory or factories engaged within the ward in the manufacture of casein or skim milk powder (not being also engaged in the manufacture of butter) the company shall be entitled to one tonnage vote:

“(c)

For every two tons of cheese manufactured by the company at any dairy factory or factories within the ward in the period referred to in subsection six of this section, the company shall be entitled to one tonnage vote:

“(d)

For every two thousand pounds of butterfat comprised in any other product of milk or cream manufactured by the company at any dairy factory or factories within the ward in the period referred to in subsection six of this section, the company shall be entitled to one tonnage vote.”

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