CHANGE IN LAW NOT NOTIFIED
PROTEST BY LINCOLN COLLEGE BOARD
The failure of authorities in Wellington to notify amendments to the law to bodies concerned was criticised at I yesterday’s meeting of the board of | governors of Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln. The chairman (Mr W. H. Gillespie, M.P.) said he had not noticed himself an alteration to the law affecting the membership of college councils in the Criminal Justices Amendment Act. It had been “discovered” by the Registrar (Mr H. G. Hunt). No legislation affecting the college should be passed without the board being advised. A protest should be made to the Education Department. Mr Hunt said that the College Act provided for the disqualification from membership of the board of any person convicted of a crime without the option of a fine. The offender would have to be imprisoned to be ineligible for membership. The amendment qualified ineligibilty as for “any offence punishable by imprisonment.” The board decided to express its views on the lack of information to the department, and ask that it be • I notified in future.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27917, 14 March 1956, Page 4
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