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Tokelau Amendment Act 1976 (NZ)

TOKELAU

TOKELAU AMENDMENT ACT 1976

Title

1. Short Title
2. Alteration of Short Titles of principal Act and amending Acts
3. References to Tokelau Islands in principal Act and other Acts to be read as references to Tokelau

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An Act to amend the Tokelau Islands Act 1948

1. Short Title - This Act may be cited as the Tokelau Amendment Act 1976, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Act heretofore known as the Tokelau Islands Act 1948 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2. Alteration of Short Titles of principal Act and amending Acts - (1) The principal Act may hereafter be cited as the Tokelau Act 1948.

(2) The Short Title of the principal Act, and the Short Titles of -

(a) The Tokelau Islands Amendment Act 1963; and

(b) The Tokelau Islands Amendment Act 1967; and

(c) The Tokelau Islands Amendment Act 1969; and

(d) Repealed.

(e) The Tokelau Islands Amendment Act 1971; and

(f) The Tokelau Islands Amendment Act 1974 -

are hereby consequentially amended, in each case, by omitting the word "Islands".

(3) Every reference in any enactment to the Short Title of any of the said Acts is hereby consequentially amended by omitting the word "Islands".

3. References to Tokelau Islands in principal Ac and other Acts to be read as references to Tokelau - (1) The principal Act is hereby further amended by omitting from -

(a) The Title; and

(b) Section 2(1) and the definitions of the terms "Administrator" and "Tokelauan" in section 2(3) (as added by the Act heretofore known as the Tokelau Islands Amendment Act 1971); and

(c) Sections 3, 4, 4A (as inserted by section 3 of the Act heretofore known as the Tokelau Islands Amendment Act 1969), 5, 5A (as inserted by section 4 of the last-mentioned Act), 6, 7, 7A (as insert d by section 15 of the Act heretofore known as the Tokelau Islands Amendment Act 1970), and section 8 -

the words "the Tokelau Islands" wherever they occur, and substituting in each case the word "Tokelau".

(2) The Act heretofore known as the Tokelau Islands Amendment Act 1967 is hereby amended by -

(a) Omitting the word "Islands" from –

(i) The heading to Part I; and

(ii) The definitions of the terms "employee" and "Tokelau Islands Public Service" in section 3 (except in paragraph (b) of that last-mentioned definition); and

(iii) Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (except where it last occurs in subsection (3)), 9, 10, 12, 13, subsections (2), (3), and (4) of section 14, the definition of the term "public purposes" in section 18(1), and 24(4).

(3) Section 14 (1) of the last-mentioned Act is hereby amended -

(a) By omitting the words "the Tokelau Islands Public Service" wherever they occur, and substituting in each case the words "the Tokelau Public Service":

(b) By omitting from the proviso the words "service in the Tokelau Islands", and substituting the words "service in Tokelau":

(c) By omitting from the proviso the words "residence in the Tokelau Islands", and substituting the words "residence in Tokelau".

(4) The said Tokelau Islands Amendment Act 1967 is hereby further amended by omitting the words "the Tokelau Islands" from -

(a) Paragraph (b) of the definition of the term "Tokelau Islands Public Service" in section 3; and

(b) Sections 8(3), 14(5)(a), 18 (except in the definition of the term "public purposes" in subsection (1)), 19, 20, 21, 22, 24 (except in subsection (4)), 25, and 26(1), -

and substituting in each case the word "Tokelau".

(5) The Act heretofore known as the Tokelau Islands Amendment Act 1970 is hereby amended by omitting the words "the Tokelau Islands" from sections 4, 5, 6 7, 8, 9 (except where they first occur in subsection (5)), 10(4), and 12(1), and substituting in each case the word "Tokelau''.

(6) Section 9 (5) of the said Tokelau Islands Amendment Act 1970 is hereby further amended by omitting the word "Islands" where it first occurs.

(7) Section 2 (3) of the Act heretofore known as the Tokelau Islands Amendment Act 1974 is hereby amended by omitting the words "the Tokelau Islands" in both places where they occur, and substituting in each case the word "Tokelau".

(8) Every reference to the Tokelau Islands in every enactment not referred to in the foregoing provisions of this section in force at the passing of this Act or in any rule, regulation, order, or other document of any kind whatsoever in force at the passing of this Act shall after the passing of this Act be read as a reference to Tokelau.

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