Counties Amendment Act 1966
Counties Amendment Act 1966
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Counties Amendment Act 1966
Counties Amendment Act 1966
Public Act |
1966 No 56 |
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Date of assent |
19 October 1966 |
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An Act to amend the Counties Act 1956
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 Counties Amendment Act 1966, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Counties Act 1956 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Annual allowance to Chairman
(1)
The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 69 (as substituted by section 4(1) of the Counties Amendment Act 1964), and substituting the following section:
“69
“(1)
The Chairman may be paid such annual allowance out of the County Fund as the Council from time to time fixes, not exceeding—
“(a)
In the case of a county having a population of not more than five thousand, five hundred pounds:
“(b)
In the case of a county having a population of more than five thousand but not more than ten thousand, seven hundred and fifty pounds:
“(c)
In the case of a county having a population of more than ten thousand but not more than twenty thousand, one thousand pounds:
“(d)
In the case of a county having a population of more than twenty thousand but not more than fifty thousand, one thousand two hundred and fifty pounds:
“(e)
In the case of a county having a population of more than fifty thousand, one thousand five hundred pounds;—
but no alteration in the amount of that allowance shall take effect during the term of office of any Chairman.
“(2)
For the purposes of this section—
“(a)
The certificate of the Government Statistician as to the population of any county at any date shall be conclusive evidence thereof:
“(b)
A person re-elected as Chairman shall be deemed to be a new Chairman.”
(2)
Notwithstanding anything in section 69 of the principal Act (as substituted by subsection (1) of this section), the allowance of the Chairman of any county who is in office at the date of the passing of this Act may, by resolution of the Council passed within six months after that date, be increased once during his term of office.
(3)
Section 4 of the Counties Amendment Act 1964 is hereby consequentially repealed.
This Act is administered in the Department of Internal Affairs.
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