Appointment of Domain Boards and administering bodies of public halls

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Reserves and Domains Amendment Act 1970

Public Act		1970 No 101
Date of assent		27 November 1970

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Appointment of Domain Boards and administering bodies of public halls
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Reserves and Domains Act 1953

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 Reserves and Domains Amendment Act 1970, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Reserves and Domains Act 1953 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Appointment of Domain Boards and administering bodies of public halls

(1)

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 6, the following section:

“6a

“(1)

The Commissioner may from time to time, by instrument in writing under his hand publicly notified, appoint such persons as he thinks fit, not exceeding 9 in number, to be a Domain Board or the administering body of a reserve for a site for a public hall, and every such instrument shall take effect according to the tenor thereof. Any person so appointed may be appointed by virtue of any office.

“(2)

The provisions of subsections (2) to (5) of section 6 of this Act, as far as they are applicable and with the necessary modifications, shall apply with respect to every Domain Board and every such administering body, as if—

“(a)

Every reference therein to the Minister were a reference to the Commissioner; and

“(b)

Every reference therein to a notice were a reference to an instrument in writing under the hand of the Commissioner; and

“(c)

For the words ‘notice in the Gazette’ in subsection (3) there were substituted the words ‘instrument in writing under his hand publicly notified’.

“(3)

The powers conferred on the Commissioner by subsection (2) of this section may be exercised in respect of any Domain Board or administering body appointed by the Minister under section 6 of this Act before the commencement of this section as if it had been appointed by the Commissioner.”

(2)

The principal Act is hereby further amended—

(a)

By omitting from subsection (1) of section 6 the words “Domain Board”:

(b)

By inserting in that subsection, after the words “Special Board”, the words “(not being a Domain Board or the administering body of a reserve for a site for a public hall)”:

(c)

By inserting in paragraph (d) of section 8, after the words “originally made”, the words “and as if, in the case of a member of a Domain Board or of the administering body of a reserve for a site for a public hall appointed by the Minister before the commencement of section 6a of this Act, he had been appointed by the Commissioner”:

(d)

By inserting in subsection (5) of section 9, after the words “this Act”, the words “or, as the case may be, by the Commissioner under section 6a of this Act”:

(e)

By omitting from subsection (1) of section 47 the words “Instead of appointing under section 6 of this Act any persons to be a Domain Board, the Minister may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette”, and substituting the words “Instead of appointing under section 6a of this Act any persons to be a Domain Board, the Commissioner may from time to time, by instrument in writing publicly notified”:

(f)

By omitting from section 48 the words “the Minister”, and substituting the words “the Commissioner”.

(3)

Section 47 of the principal Act is hereby further amended by repealing subsection (3), and substituting the following subsection:

“(3)

Any appointment of a local authority under this section (whether made by the Minister before the commencement of this subsection or made by the Commissioner after the commencement of this subsection) may at any time be amended or revoked by the Commissioner by instrument under his hand publicly notified.”

This Act is administered in the Department of Lands and Survey.

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