Agricultural Pests Destruction Amendment Act 1968

Public Act		1968 No 65
Date of assent		13 December 1968

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Amendments consequent on transition from rabbit boards to Pest Destruction Boards
3	Special provisions in respect of rating on union of districts
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Agricultural Pests Destruction Act 1967

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 Agricultural Pests Destruction Amendment Act 1968, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Agricultural Pests Destruction Act 1967 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Amendments consequent on transition from rabbit boards to Pest Destruction Boards

(1)

Subsection (2) of section 4 of the principal Act is hereby amended—

(a)

By omitting from subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) the word “Rabbit”, and substituting the words “Pest Destruction”:

(b)

By omitting from subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) the word “Rabbit”, and substituting the words “Pest Destruction”.

(2)

Section 30 of the principal Act is hereby amended, as from its commencement, by inserting, after subsection (3), the following subsections:

“(3a)

Every reference to a rabbit board in any agreement, deed, instrument, notice, or document whatsoever shall hereafter be read as a reference to a Pest Destruction Board.

“(3b)

The presentation to any Registrar of Deeds or District Land Registrar or any other person of any instrument executed or purporting to be executed by a Pest Destruction Board and relating to any estate or interest in any real or personal property held, immediately before the commencement of this Act, by the rabbit board that became the Pest Destruction Board shall be accepted by all persons concerned as conclusive proof that the estate or interest is vested in the Pest Destruction Board.”

(3)

Section 95 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (1) the word “Rabbit” in both places where it occurs, and substituting in each case the words “Pest Destruction”.

3 Special provisions in respect of rating on union of districts

The principal Act is hereby further amended by inserting, after section 71, the following section:

“71a.

On the union of two or more districts, the Board of the united district may, by resolution made before any rate has been made in the new district, determine that any rates made and levied under section 71, section 72, or section 73 of this Act shall be made and levied separately in each of the former districts for such period, not exceeding five years, as is specified in the resolution.”

This Act is administered in the Department of Agriculture.

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