SINKING FUNDS BILL
Unconstitutional Aspects
PUBLIC TRUSTEE’S CASE
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Gisborne, Oct. 29.
At a meeting of the Poverty Bay Power .Board tlie chairman referred to what was termed the unconstitutional aspects of the Sinking Funds Bill. The Government, the chairman said, had admitted that the Public Trustee, the defendant hi an action brought by the board, had been permitted to draft the Bill, which was thus a piece of legislation drafted by a defendant litigant. Otherwise he was bound to pay over moneys to tlie board, and supposedly he was guaranteed by the State, which was bringing forward the legislation. The Government, the chairman continued, refused to insert the usual clause protecting pending litigation, and so placed the Trustee in the position of resolving in his own favour questions at issue. Constitutionally, if such legislation was passed the board could petition tlie King and the British Government'could disallow the measure.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 31, 31 October 1932, Page 10
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152SINKING FUNDS BILL Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 31, 31 October 1932, Page 10
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