Notice of intention to assign or alter name

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New Zealand Geographic Board Amendment Act 1988

Public Act		1988 No 202
Date of assent		16 December 1988

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Notice of intention to assign or alter name
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the New Zealand Geographic Board Act 1946

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the New Zealand Geographic Board Amendment Act 1988, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the New Zealand Geographic Board Act 1946 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Notice of intention to assign or alter name

(1)

The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 12, and substituting the following section:

“12

Before it assigns or alters any name, the Board shall—

“(a)

Cause to be published in the Gazette notice of its intention to do so, specifying the intended name or alteration; and

“(b)

As soon as is practicable afterwards, cause a copy of the notice to be published in daily newspapers circulating in the cities of Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin; and—

“(i)

If 2 or more newspapers (not being newspapers in which copies have been published under the foregoing provisions of this paragraph) circulate in the area where the place concerned is situated, in both or any 2 of them; and

“(ii)

If only one such newspaper circulates in the area, in that newspaper.

(2)

Section 13(1) of the principal Act is hereby consequentially amended by omitting the words “at any time within the period of 3 months referred to in section 12 of this Act”, and substituting the words “, at any time within 3 months of the publication in the Gazette of notice of the Board’s intention to assign or alter the name concerned,”.

(3)

Section 15 of the principal Act is hereby consequentially amended by repealing subsection (1), and substituting the following subsection:

“(1)

The Board shall—

“(a)

Cause to be published in the Gazette notice of—

“(i)

The decision of the Minister on a proposed name or alteration; or

“(ii)

If there has been no objection under section 13(1) of this Act, the decision of the Board on it; and

“(b)

As soon as is practicable afterwards, cause a copy of the notice to be published in daily newspapers circulating in the cities of Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin; and—

“(i)

“(ii)

If only one such newspaper circulates in the area, in that newspaper.”

This Act is administered in the Department of Survey and Land Information.

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