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Post Office Amendment Act 1963

Public Act		1963 No 107
Date of assent		23 October 1963

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Opening of postal articles
3	Staff regulations
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Post Office Act 1959

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 Post Office Amendment Act 1963, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Rehabilitation Act 1941 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Opening of postal articles

Subsection (1) of section 31 of the principal Act (as amended by section 3 of the Post Office Amendment Act 1962) is hereby further amended by omitting the words “who, before the opening of the articles, shall make the declaration set forth in the First Schedule to this Act”.

3 Staff regulations

(1)

Subsection (2) of section 223 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after paragraph (h), the following paragraph:

“(hh)

Providing for the recovery from an officer, after inquiry and with the concurrence of the Controller and Auditor-General, of an amount not exceeding the amount of any ascertained or assessable damage to Crown property or loss to the Crown due to any omission or default by the officer:”.

(2)

Subsection (2) of section 223 of the principal Act is hereby further amended by adding the following paragraph:

“(m)

Empowering the Director-General to prescribe allowances and make grants, and to prescribe the terms, conditions, and rates or amounts of allowances and grants, that may be paid to officers in addition to, or instead of, salary or wages.”

(3)

Subsection (1) of section 196 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:

“(k)

Any surcharge or other penalty exceeding two pounds imposed on the appellant under paragraph (hh) of subsection (2) of section 223 of this Act.”

(4)

Subsection (2) of section 196 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the words “or under any regulations made pursuant to paragraph (m) of subsection (2) of section 223 of this Act in relation to allowances or grants”.

(5)

Subsection (4) of section 219 of the principal Act is hereby repealed.

This Act is administered in the Post Office.

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