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Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act 1960

Public Act		1960 No 70
Date of assent		25 October 1960

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Date of general elections

An Act to amend the Local Elections and Polls 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 Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act 1960, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Local Elections and Polls Act 1953¹ (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Date of general elections

(1)

Section 4 of the principal Act (as amended by paragraphs (c) and (d) of subsection (1) of section 2 of the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act 1957) is hereby further amended by repealing subsections (4) and (5), and substituting the following subsections:

“(4)

On the seventh day of October, nineteen hundred and sixty-one, and on the first Saturday in October in every third year thereafter, all members of the Christchurch Transport Board shall go out of office and a general election of members of the Board shall be held.

“(5)

In each of the several subdistricts of the Christchurch Drainage District the electors shall for their subdistrict, on the seventh day of October, nineteen hundred and sixty-one, and on the first Saturday in October in every third year thereafter, elect one person (being an elector) to be a member of the Christchurch Drainage Board.”

(2)

The Christchurch Tramway District Act 1920 (as amended by subsection (2) of section 2 of the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act 1957) is hereby further amended—

(a)

By omitting from subsection (1) of section 9 the word “March”, and substituting the word “July”:

(b)

By omitting from subsection (4) of section 13 the word “April”, and substituting the word “August”:

(c)

By omitting from the third proviso to section 26 the words “third Saturday in May”, and substituting the words “first Saturday in October”.

(3)

Section 19 of the Christchurch District Drainage Act 1951 (as amended by subsection (3) of section 2 of the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act 1957) is hereby further amended by omitting the words “in the month of June”, and substituting the words “after the first Saturday in October”.

(4)

Section 2 of the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act 1957 is hereby amended by repealing paragraphs (c) and (d)of subsection (1) and subsections (2) and (3).

¹*1957 Reprint, Vol. 8, p. 541

Amendment: 1958, No. 48

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