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Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1970

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Act Repealed Latest version as at 13 November 1970 (as enacted) | 1970 No 43

Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1970

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Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1970

Public Act
  
1970 No 43
Date of assent
  
13 November 1970
 

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An Act to amend the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control

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 Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1970, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act 1941 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Annual report of Council

(1)

Section 33 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (1) the words “Minister a report as to its”, and substituting the words “National Water and Soil Conservation Authority constituted under the Water and Soil Conservation Act 1967, for incorporation in that Authority’s annual report to the Minister, a report as to the Council’s”.

(2)

The said section 33 is hereby further amended by repealing subsection (2).

3 Filling of extraordinary vacancies

Section 56 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:

“(5)

Notwithstanding anything in subsections (1) to (4) of this section, if any such extraordinary vacancy occurs within 6 months before the date fixed for the next triennial election of members of Catchment Boards, the Board, with the written consent of—

“(a)

The local authority of the constituent district whose representative has vacated office; or

“(b)

The local authorities of the constituent districts included in the combined district whose representative has vacated office—

as the case may require, may by resolution determine that the vacancy shall not be filled; and in any such case, the provisions of the said subsections shall not apply in respect of the vacancy.”

4 Unauthorised expenditure

Section 116 of the principal Act (as inserted by section 21(1) of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1959) is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “by the Board” where they first occur, the words “and of any subsidy on the administrative rate paid to the Board in that year under section 78 of the Statutes Amendment Act 1945,”.

This Act is administered in the Ministry of Works.
Act Repealed Latest version as at 13 November 1970 (as enacted)

Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1970

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