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Trade and Industry Amendment Act 1985

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Short Title

Minister of Overseas Trade and Marketing

Controlling imports

Trade and Industry Amendment Act 1985

Public Act		1985 No 41
Date of assent		8 March 1985

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Minister of Overseas Trade and Marketing
3	Controlling imports
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Trade and Industry Act 1956

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 Trade and Industry Amendment Act 1985, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Trade and Industry Act 1956 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Minister of Overseas Trade and Marketing

(1)

Section 2a of the principal Act (as inserted by section 2 of the Trade and Industry Amendment Act 1977) is hereby amended by omitting the words “Minister of Overseas Trade” wherever they occur, and substituting in each case the words “Minister of Overseas Trade and Marketing”.

(2)

Every reference to the Minister of Overseas Trade in any other enactment or document shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as a reference to the Minister of Overseas Trade and Marketing.

3 Controlling imports

(1)

Section 16b of the principal Act (as inserted by section 2 of the Trade and Industry Amendment Act 1973) is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection (3), the following subsection:

“(3a)

For the purposes of this section—

“(a)

The Secretary may from time to time prescribe any forms he deems necessary:

“(b)

The production of any document under the hand of the Secretary purporting to be a prescribed form or an extract from a prescribed form or a copy of any such form or extract shall in all Courts and in all proceedings be sufficient evidence of the fact that the form was prescribed; and all Courts shall in all proceedings take judicial notice of the signature of the Secretary either to the prescribed form or to any such extract or copy.”

(2)

Section 16a of the principal Act (as so inserted) is hereby consequentially amended—

(a)

By adding to subsection (1)(a) the words “and, in relation to forms, includes prescribed by the Secretary”:

(b)

By omitting from subsection (1)(b) the word “declaration”:

(c)

By inserting in subsection (2), after the expression “Part XIV”, the words “(excluding section 303)”.

This Act is administered in the Department of Trade and Industry.

Trade and Industry Amendment Act 1985