This Act may be cited as the Tokelau Amendment Act 1976, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Act heretofore known as the Tokelau Islands Act 1948 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(1) The principal Act may hereafter be cited as the Tokelau Act 1948.

(2) The Short Title of the principal Act, and the Short Titles of—

• (a) The Tokelau Islands Amendment Act 1963; and

• (b) The Tokelau Islands Amendment Act 1967; and

• (c) The Tokelau Islands Amendment Act 1969; and

• (d) [Repealed]

• (e) The Tokelau Islands Amendment Act 1971; and

• (f) The Tokelau Islands Amendment Act 1974—

are hereby consequentially amended, in each case, by omitting the word “Islands”.

(3) Every reference in any enactment to the Short Title of any of the said Acts is hereby consequentially amended by omitting the word “Islands”.

(1) 

(2) The Act heretofore known as the Tokelau Islands Amendment Act 1967 is hereby amended by—

• (a) Omitting the word “Islands” from—

  • (a) Omitting the word “Islands” from—

    • (i) [Repealed]

    • (ii) [Repealed]

    • (iii) The definition of the term public purposes in section 18(1), and section 24(4).

(3) [Repealed]

(4) The said Tokelau Islands Amendment Act 1967 is hereby further amended by omitting the words “the Tokelau Islands” from—

• (a) [Repealed]

• (b) Sections 18 (except in the definition of the term public purposes in subsection (1)), 19, 20, 21, 22, 24 (except in subsection (4)), 25 and 26(1),—

and substituting in each case the word “Tokelau”.

(5) The Act heretofore known as the Tokelau Islands Amendment Act 1970 is hereby amended by omitting the words “the Tokelau Islands” from sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (except where they first occur in subsection (5)), 10(4), and 12(1), and substituting in each case the word “Tokelau”.

(6) Section 9(5) of the said Tokelau Islands Amendment Act 1970 is hereby further amended by omitting the word “Islands” where it first occurs.

(7) Section 2(3) of the Act heretofore known as the Tokelau Islands Amendment Act 1974 is hereby amended by omitting the words “the Tokelau Islands” in both places where they occur, and substituting in each case the word “Tokelau”.

(8) Every reference to the Tokelau Islands in every enactment not referred to in the foregoing provisions of this section in force at the passing of this Act or in any rule, regulation, order, or other document of any kind whatsoever in force at the passing of this Act shall after the passing of this Act be read as a reference to Tokelau.