This Act may be cited as the Children’s Health Camps Amendment Act 1988, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Children’s Health Camps Act 1972 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Section 4(1) of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing paragraphs (c) and (d), and substituting the following paragraph:

Notwithstanding anything in section 2 of this Act, any person who, immediately before the commencement of this section, held office as a member of the Board pursuant to section 4(1)(c) of the principal Act shall, unless that person sooner dies or vacates office under section 6 of the principal Act, continue to hold that office until the expiry of the term for which that person was appointed, and shall be eligible for reappointment.

Notwithstanding anything in section 2 of this Act, where, immediately before the commencement of this section, any person (being a person who was appointed to be a member of the Board pursuant to section 4(1)(d) of the principal Act) was continuing in office pursuant to section 5(2) of the principal Act, that person shall, unless that person sooner dies or vacates office under section 6 of the principal Act, continue in office until any person appointed as a successor to that person pursuant to section 4(1)(c) of the principal Act (as substituted by section 2 of this Act) comes into office.

For the purposes of section 8(2) of the principal Act, any person to whom subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section applies shall, after the commencement of this section, be deemed to have been appointed to the Board by the New Zealand Local Government Association Incorporated.

Any person who, immediately before the commencement of this section, was authorised, pursuant to section 8(2) of the principal Act, to act in the place of any person to whom subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section applies at any meeting of the Board may continue to so act until that person’s authority so to act expires or is sooner revoked by the New Zealand Local Government Association Incorporated.