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Place Names (Amendment) Act 1993

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Place Names (Amendment) Act 1993

No. 13 of 1993.
Certified on: 4.5.93

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1. Repeal and Replacement of Section 3.

"3. PLACE NAMES COMMITTEE."

2. Deputies (Amendment of Section 4).
3. Procedures, etc., of the Committee (Amendment of Section 6).

AN ACT

entitled

Place Names (Amendment) Act 1993,

Being an Act to amend the Place Names Act (Chapter 318),

MADE by the National Parliament.

1. REPEAL AND REPLACEMENT OF SECTION 3.

Section 3 of the Principal Act is repealed and replaced with the following:-

"3. PLACE NAMES COMMITTEE.
(1) A Place Names Committee is hereby established.
(2) The Committee shall consist of -

• (a) the Surveyor General, who shall be the Chairman; and
• (b) an anthropologist from the National Museum and Art Gallery; and
• (c) an officer of the Department of the Prime Minister and National Executive Council; and
• (d) a member of the staff of the Cultural Division of the Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research; and
• (e) an officer of the Department responsible for Provincial Affairs; and
• (f) a member of the staff of the Summer Institute of Linguistics; and
• (g) an officer of the National Statistical Office; and
• (h) a surveyor from the Department of Works; and
• (i) the Director of the National Mapping Bureau.

(3) The members of the Committee referred to in Subsection (2) (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h) and (i) shall be appointed by the Minister by notice in the National Gazette.".

2. DEPUTIES (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 4).

Section 4(3) of the Principal Act is repealed and replaced with the following:-

"(3) The deputy of a member referred to in Section 3(2) (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h) or (i) shall be a person from the same establishment as the member of the committee for whom he is the deputy.".

3. PROCEDURES, ETC., OF THE COMMITTEE (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 6).

Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended in Subsection 2(a) by repealing the word "five" and replacing it with the word:-

"three".

I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of the Place Names (Amendment) Act 1993 which has been made by the National Parliament.

Clerk of the National Parliament.

I hereby certify that the Place Names (Amendment) Act 1993 was made by the National Parliament on 4 May 1993.

Speaker of the National Parliament.