Noxious Plants Amendment Act, 1988

Noxious Plants Amendment Act 1988 204 Commenced: 16 Dec 1988 An Act to amend the Noxious Plants Act 1978 BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows: 1. Short Title---This Act may be cited as the Noxious Plants Amendment Act 1988, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Noxious Plants Act 1978 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act). 2. Establishment of Council---Section 5 (2) of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing paragraphs (b) and (c), and substituting the following paragraph: ``(b) Three members appointed by the Minister on the recommendation of the New Zealand Local Government Association Incorporated:''. 3. Transitional provisions---(1) Notwithstanding any- thing 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 (b) or paragraph (c) of section 5 (2) of the principal Act shall, unless that person sooner dies or vacates office under section 7 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. (2) 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 paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) of section 5 (2) of the principal Act) was continuing in office pursuant to section 6 (3) of the principal Act, that person shall, unless that person sooner dies or vacates office under section 7 of the principal Act, continue in office until any person appointed as a successor to that person pursuant to section 5 (2) (b) of the principal Act (as substituted by section 2 of this Act) comes into office. (3) For the purposes of section 8 (4) 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 recommendation of the New Zealand Local Government Association Incorporated. (4) Any person who, immediately before the commencement of this section, held office pursuant to section 8 (4) of the principal Act as the deputy of any person to whom subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section applies shall continue to hold that office as if section 2 of this Act had not been passed.