Public Bodies Contracts Amendment Act 1975

Public Act		1975 No 100
Date of assent		9 October 1975

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Mode of contracting by public bodies
3	Delegation of power to enter into contracts
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Public Bodies Contracts Act 1959

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 Public Bodies Contracts Amendment Act 1975, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Public Bodies Contracts Act 1959 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Mode of contracting by public bodies

Section 3(3) of the principal Act (as amended by section 7(1) of the Decimal Currency Act 1964) is hereby amended by omitting the words “four hundred dollars”, and substituting the expression “$1,000”.

3 Delegation of power to enter into contracts

(1)

Section 4(3) of the principal Act (as amended by the Public Bodies Contracts Amendment Act 1965 and section 7(1) of the Decimal Currency Act 1964) is hereby amended by omitting the words “for any sum exceeding four hundred dollars”, and substituting the words “, to which this subsection applies,”.

(2)

The said section 4 is hereby further amended by inserting, after subsection (3), the following subsection:

“(3a)

Subsection (3) of this section applies to all contracts entered into by a committee, officer, or officers except those contracts which the public body has, by resolution conforming with this subsection, determined, either generally or in any particular case, need not be reported back to it by the committee, officer, or officers. The public body may so resolve in respect of any contract for not more than such fraction as it thinks fit (but not exceeding one half) of the amount specified under subsection (1) of this section as the limit of the delegated power of a committee, officer, or officers.”

(3)

The Public Bodies Contracts Amendment Act 1965 is hereby consequentially repealed.

This Act is administered in the Department of Internal Affairs.

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