Fire Services Amendment Act 1963
Fire Services Amendment Act 1963
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Fire Services Amendment Act 1963
Public Act |
1963 No 11 |
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Date of assent |
2 October 1963 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Fire Services Act 1949
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 Fire Services Amendment Act 1963, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Fire Services Act 1949 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Constitution of districts
(1)
Subsection (4) of section 18 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “Governor-General may, by Order in Council,”
, and substituting the words “Minister may, by notice in the Gazette”
.
(2)
Section 19 of the principal Act is hereby consequentially amended—
(a)
By inserting, after the word “Governor-General”
, the words “or the Minister”
:
(b)
By inserting, after the words “Order in Council”
in each place where they appear, the words “or notice”
.
(3)
Section 20 of the principal Act is hereby consequentially amended by inserting in subsection (4), after the words “Order in Council”
, the words “or notice”
.
3 Abolition of districts
The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 21, and substituting the following section:
“21
(1)
The Governor-General, by Order in Council, on the application of the Fire Board in the case of a united urban fire district, or on the application of the Council in the case of any such district where in the opinion of the Council no efficient fire brigade exists, or in pursuance of a final scheme promulgated by the Local Government Commission in the case of any district, may declare that, as from a date to be specified in that behalf in the Order in Council, that district shall cease to exist.
“(2)
The Minister, by notice in the Gazette, on the application of any contributory local authority in the case of any urban fire district or secondary urban fire district, or on the application of the Council in the case of any such district where in the opinion of the Council no efficient fire brigade exists, may declare that, as from a date to be specified in that behalf in the notice, that district shall cease to exist.
“(3)
As from the date on which it has been declared as aforesaid that any district shall cease to exist, the Fire Board, Fire Committee, or Fire. Brigade Committee of that district shall be dissolved, and to the extent that the local authority is the Urban Fire Authority of that district it shall cease to be the Urban Fire Authority of that district.”
4 Date of appointments and elections
(1)
Section 24 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (2) the words “February, nineteen hundred and fifty-one,”
, and substituting the words “November, nineteen hundred and sixty-five,”
.
(2)
Section 24 of the principal Act is hereby further amended by inserting, after subsection (2), the following subsection:
“(2a)
Every member of any Fire Board, Fire Committee, or Fire Brigade Committee shall come into office on the first day of January following the month specified in subsection (2) of this section for his appointment or election or upon his appointment or election, whichever is the later.”
(3)
Section 27 of the principal Act (as amended by section 2 of the Fire Services Amendment Act 1961) is hereby further amended by omitting from subsection (2) the words “four months”
, and substituting the words “two months”
.
(4)
Section 2 of the Fire Services Amendment Act 1961 is hereby consequentially repealed.
5 Protection of Urban Fire Authority in performance ofcertain services
Section 46 of the principal Act is hereby amended—
(a)
By inserting in subsection (1), after the words “has authority”
, the words “or in the performance in good faith for the protection of human life which is otherwise endangered of any service pursuant to section 46a of this Act (which section was inserted by section 4 of the Fire Services Amendment Act 1959)”
:
(b)
By inserting in subsection (2), after the words “to fire”
, the words “or to the performance in good faith for the protection of human life which is otherwise endangered of any service pursuant to the said section 46a of this Act”
:
(c)
By adding to subsection (2) the words “or in performance of the said service for the protection of human life which is otherwise endangered”
.
6 Loan accounts
Section 56 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (2) the words “for each loan”
, and substituting the words “or, with the consent of the Audit Office, into two or more separate accounts at the bank”
.
7 Power to erect fire alarms
The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 71, the following section:
“71a
It shall be lawful, and shall be deemed always to have been lawful, for any Urban Fire Authority, with the consent of the authority having control of any public highway or place to which the public have access, to erect and maintain fire alarms on that highway or place.”
This Act is administered in the Department of Internal Affairs.
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