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Maori Affairs Amendment Act (No. 2) 1985

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Short Title and commencement

Salaries and allowances of Judges

Repeal and saving

Maori Affairs Amendment Act (No. 2) 1985

Public Act		1985 No 139
Date of assent		29 October 1985

	Title
1	Short Title and commencement
2	Salaries and allowances of Judges
3	Repeal and saving
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Maori Affairs 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 and commencement

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Maori Affairs Amendment Act (No. 2) 1985, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Maori Affairs Act 1953 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(2)

This Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of April 1985.

2 Salaries and allowances of Judges

The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 21 (as substituted by section 2(1) of the Maori Purposes Act 1978), and substituting the following section:

“21

“(1)

There shall be paid to the Chief Judge and to the other Judges of the Maori Land Court, out of the Consolidated Account, without further appropriation than this section,—

“(a)

Salaries at such rates as the Higher Salaries Commission from time to time determines; and

“(b)

Such allowances as are from time to time determined by the Higher Salaries Commission; and

“(c)

Such additional allowances, being travelling allowances or other incidental or minor allowances, as may be determined from time to time by the Governor-General.

“(2)

The salary of a Judge shall not be diminished during the continuance of the Judge’s appointment.

“(3)

Subject to the Higher Salaries Commission Act 1977, any determination made under subsection (1) of this section, and any provision of any such determination, may be made so as to come into force on a date to be specified in that behalf in the determination, being the date of the making of the determination or any other date, whether before or after the date of the making of the determination or the date of the commencement of this section.

“(4)

Every such determination, and every provision of any such determination, in respect of which no date is specified as aforesaid shall come into force on the date of the making of the determination.”

3 Repeal and saving

(1)

Section 2 of the Maori Purposes Act 1978 is hereby repealed.

(2)

Notwithstanding anything in this Act, salaries and allowances in respect of which the Higher Salaries Commission may make determinations shall, until amended or superseded by determination of the Commission, continue to be payable at the rates applicable at the commencement of this Act.

This Act is administered in the Department of Maori Affairs.

Maori Affairs Amendment Act (No. 2) 1985