This Act may be cited as the Dog Control and Hydatids Amendment Act 1988, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Dog Control and Hydatids Act 1982 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Section 19(2) of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing paragraphs (d) and (e), 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 Council pursuant to paragraph (d) or paragraph (e) of section 19(2) of the principal Act shall, unless that person sooner dies or vacates office under section 24 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 Council pursuant to section 19(2)(e) of the principal Act) was continuing in office pursuant to section 21(3) of the principal Act, that person shall, unless that person sooner dies or vacates office under section 24 of the principal Act, continue in office until any person appointed as a successor to that person pursuant to section 19(2)(d) of the principal Act (as substituted by section 2 of this Act) comes into office.

For the purposes of section 23(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 Council on the nomination of the New Zealand Local Government Association Incorporated.