Stock Diseases (Amendment) Act 1972 (NSW)

STOCK DISEASES (AMENDMENT) ACT.

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ELIZABETHiE II REGINA

Act No. 58, 1972.

An Act to make further provisions with respect to the appointment of, and vacation of office by, members of the Board of Tick Control appointed under the Stock Diseases Act, 1923; for these purposes to amend that Act; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 31st October, 1972.]

BE

Stock Diseases {Amendment).

No. 58, 1972 T )E it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by

-D and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parhament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the “Stock Diseases

(Amendment) Act, 1972”.

Commence- 2. This Act shall commence on such day as may be

ment.

appointed by the Governor in respect thereof and as may be

notified by proclamation published in the Gazette.

Amendment	3.	The Stock Diseases Act, 1923, is amended-
of Act No. 34, 1923.

Sec. 5.	(a) by inserting next after section 5 (3) the following
ment of

(Appoint­	new subsection :—
Board of

Tick (3a) a person shall not be appointed as a

Control.)

member of the board if he is of or above the age of

seventy years.

(b)	by inserting in section 5 (4) after the words “but shall” the words “, subject to this section,” ;
(c)	by omitting section 5 (5) and by inserting instead the following subsection :—

(5) A member shall be deemed to have vacated

his office if he—

(a) dies;

(b)	commits an act of bankruptcy, presents a debtor’s petition for bankruptcy or makes an assignment of any future property for the benefit of his creditors;
(c)	becomes a mentally ill person, a protected person or an incapable person within the meaning of the Mental Health Act, 1958;

(d )

Stock Diseases {Amendment).

(d)

is convicted in New South Wales of a crime No. 58,1972 ment for twelve months or upwards, or if he is convicted elsewhere than in New South Wales of a crime or offence which if committed in New South Wales would be a crime or offence so punishable;

(e) resigns his office by writing under his hand addressed to the Governor and the Governor accepts his resignation;

(f) is removed from office by the Governor;

(g) attains the age of seventy years;

(h) is absent from four consecutive meetings of the board of which reasonable notice has been given to him either personally or in the ordinary course of post or unless he is absent on leave granted by the board or unless he is, before the expiration of four weeks after the last of those meetings, excused by the board for his absence from those meetings; or

(i)   ceases to hold the qualifications by virtue of which he was appointed.

by omitting section 23 (2) and by inserting instead Sec. 23.

the following subsection :—	(Power to
make regu-
(2) Section 41 of the Interpretation Act, 1897, applies in respect of a regulation as if this Act had been passed after the commencement of the Interpretation (Amendment) Act, 1969.

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