Finance Act 1978

1: Short Title
This Act may be cited as the Finance Act 1978.
1: Substantive provisions
2: Local authorities may promote Bills
1: Any local authority may expend money in and about preparing and passing through Parliament, or assisting or opposing in its passage through Parliament, any Bill in cases where the interests of that local authority or the inhabitants of its district are concerned.
2: For the purposes of subsection (1), local authority Local Government Act 2002
3: Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s) Section 2(2) substituted 1 July 2003 section 262 Local Government Act 2002
3: Emily Johnston Scholarship
1: Notwithstanding anything in the will of the late Emily Lilias Johnston of Wellington, the following provisions shall apply to the award of the scholarship, established under that will and known as The Emily Johnston Scholarship for Research in the Science and Art of Medicine, by the Senate of the University of Otago, to the tenure of that scholarship, and to payments made out of the income of the trust out of which the scholarship is established:
a: the holding or acceptance of a position of emolument shall not disqualify any person from being awarded or continuing to hold the scholarship if the Senate, after consultation with the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Otago, is satisfied that the acceptance or holding of that position will not prevent the active and satisfactory prosecution of the research in respect of which the scholarship has been or is proposed to be awarded:
b: the Senate may, in its discretion, award the scholarship to a candidate otherwise qualified who has not held a position as house surgeon or physician in a hospital in New Zealand of not less than 100 beds, or who has not held such a position for the time prescribed by the conditions of the will, if he has had such other practical experience as the Senate, on the advice of the said Dean or other competent medical authority, considers to be equivalent to the practical experience so prescribed:
c: the Senate may, in its discretion, award the scholarship to a person otherwise qualified who is or has been married:
d: if, in the opinion of the Senate, it is desirable that any holder of the scholarship proceed beyond New Zealand for any purpose of the research in respect of which it has been awarded, the Senate may expend such portion of the income of the trust out of which the scholarship is established as it thinks fit to enable him to do so:
e: if in any case the Senate thinks it appropriate to do so, it may award the scholarship under the name of The Emily Johnston Research Fellowship in the Science and Art of Clinical Medicine.
2: Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s)
2: Validations, dissolution, and repeals
Part 2 repealed 26 October 1979 Finance Act 1979
4: Validating payments of coroners' fees
Section 4 repealed 26 October 1979 Finance Act 1979
5: Validating payments of tertiary bursaries
Section 5 repealed 26 October 1979 Finance Act 1979
6: Validating payment of compassionate grant by Petone Technical Institute
Section 6 repealed 26 October 1979 Finance Act 1979
7: Monetary and Economic Council dissolved
Section 7 repealed 26 October 1979 Finance Act 1979
8: Repeals
Section 8 repealed 26 October 1979 Finance Act 1979