This Act may be cited as the Masterton Licensing Trust Amendment Act 1971, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Masterton Licensing Trust Act 1947 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Section 9 of the principal Act (as substituted by section 2(1) of the Masterton Licensing Trust Amendment Act 1969) is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (1) the expression “$900”, and substituting the expression “$1,100”.

Notwithstanding anything in subsection (2) of the said section 9, the remuneration of the Chairman who is in office at the date of the passing of this Act may, by resolution of the Trust passed within 6 months after that date, be increased once during his term of office.

Section 9a of the principal Act (as inserted by section 12 of the Licensing Trusts Amendment Act 1962 and amended by section 7(1) of the Decimal Currency Act 1964) is hereby further amended—

Subsection (3) of this section shall be deemed to have come into force on the 27th day of November 1970.

The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 38b (as enacted by section 16 of the Licensing Trusts Amendment Act 1961), and substituting the following section:

Section 16 of the Licensing Trusts Amendment Act 1961 is hereby consequentially repealed.