Public Accountants Registration (Amendment) Act 1948 (NSW)

PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS REGISTRATION

(AMENDMENT) ACT.

Act No. 32, 1948.

An Act to amend the Public Accountants Reg- George yi.

istration Act, 1945, in certain respects; to	~
validate certain matters; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 30th November, 1948.]

BE

33a Public Accountants Registration (Amendment) Act.

No. 32, 1948,	I3 E it enacted by tbe King’s Most Excellent Majesty, r > by and with the advice and consent of the Legis­ lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows ;—
and

Short title 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the “ Public

citation.	Accountants Eegistration (Amendment) Act, 1948.”
(2) The Public Accountants Eegistration Act, 1945, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Public Accountants Eegistration Act, 1945-1948.

Amendment	2 . (1) The Public Accountants Eegistration Act,
of Act No.

18,1945. 1945, is amended—■

Sec. 4.

(a) by omitting section four;

(First

Board.)

Sec. 6.

(b) by omitting from subsection one of section six

(Members of	the words “ On and from the first day of January,
Board.)	one thousand nine hundred and forty-six” ;

Sec. 11.	(c) by inserting at the end of subsection one of
(Deputies of

official section eleven the following new paragraph—

members.) (c) The Public Trustee may from time to time appoint an officer of the Public Trust Office to act as his deputy at any meeting of the Board at which he is unable to be present.

Sec. 19.	(d) by inserting next after subsection one of section
from

(Exemptioa	nineteen the following new subsection;—
prescribed

examina­ (1a) (a) The Board may exempt from any

tions.)	examination prescribed under subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (c) of subsection one of section eighteen of this Act any person who produces evidence satisfactory to the Board of having passed, before the twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, any equivalent examination of any approved institute of accountants.
(b) Any exemption granted to a person by the Board pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subsection shall have no force or effect unless such person, before the twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and fifty,

; passes

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passes such of the examinations prescribed under No. 33, i94s,

subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (c) of sub­

section one of section eigJiteen of this Act to

which such exemption docs not relate.

(e)	by inserting at tbe end of section twenty the scc.20.
following new subsection— (Appiiea-

^ ̂ tioofor

(4) Where a person who has made application registra-

to the Board to be registered under this Act is, for any reason, not so registered pursuant to such application, the Board may refund to that person or to his legal personal representative the whole of the fee lodged with the application or such part thereof as the Board deems fit.

(2) The amendments made by paragraphs (d) and

(e) of subsection one of this section shall be deemed to have commenced on the twenty-eighth day of May, one

thousand nine hundred and forty-five.