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Maori Trust Boards Amendment Act 1983

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Act Repealed Latest version as at 01 October 1983 (as enacted) | 1983 No 19

Maori Trust Boards Amendment Act 1983

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Maori Trust Boards Amendment Act 1983

Public Act
  
1983 No 19
Date of assent
  
1 October 1983
 

Contents

Title
1 Short Title
2 Qualification of members
Administrative information

An Act to amend the Maori Trust Boards Act 1955 so as to ensure that only beneficiaries are eligible for election or appointment to a Board

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 Maori Trust Boards Amendment Act 1983, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Maori Trust Boards Act 1955 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Qualification of members

(1)

Section 14 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following subsections:

“(4)

No person shall be capable of being elected or appointed to be, or of being, a member of a Board unless he is, in relation to that Board, a beneficiary.

“(5)

Where the members of a Board are to be elected or appointed to represent different sections or divisions of the beneficiaries, no beneficiary shall be capable of being elected or appointed to be, or of being, a member representing a particular section or division unless he himself belongs to that section or division.

“(6)

Where a person is qualified to belong to more than one section or division of the beneficiaries, he shall not be capable of being elected or appointed to be, or of being, a member representing a section or division other than the one in which he elects to be enrolled in accordance with section 42(6) of this Act.”

(2)

Section 47(4) of the principal Act is hereby repealed.

(3)

Subclauses (2) and (3) of regulation 2 of the Maori Trust Board Regulations 1960 (S.R. 1960/103) are hereby revoked.

This Act is administered in the Department of Maori Affairs.

Act Repealed Latest version as at 01 October 1983 (as enacted)

Maori Trust Boards Amendment Act 1983

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