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PART 11. Separate Institutions. ■51. übscribers to institutions may petition forincorporation. 62. Incorporation effected by Order in Council. 53. Board of Trustees to be eleoted. 54. First meeting of contributors. 55. Annual election of one-third of Trustees. 56. Majority of votes to decide any question. Who may vote. Disqualification of voters. 57. Adjourned elections. 58. Chairman. 59. Vaoanoies. 60. Life contributors. 61. Conduct of elections. 62. Moneys constituting the Institution Fund. 63. Annual subsidies to separate institutions. 64. Trustees may borrow money. 65. Payment of expenses of separate institutions and of Trustees. 66. Annual balance-sheet. 67. Certain provisions of Part I to apply to separate institutions and Trustees. 68. Revocation of incorporation under certain circumstances. PART 111. General Provisions. By-laws. 69. Board and Trustees may make by-laws. Bylaws to be posted in conspicuous place in institution. Evidence of by-law. When by-laws void.

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Maintenance of Inmates. 70. Contracts for maintenance, &o. 71. Persons receiving relief liable for same. 72. Near relation liable to contribute. 73. Public Trustee to contribute in certain cases. 74. As to relief afforded to persons coming from beyond district. 75. Maintenance of destitute children. Inspection of Institutions. 76. Inspectors. 77. Inspection of institutions. 78. Annual reports by Inspectors. 79. Annual report by Inspector-General. 80. Powers of Health Officers saved. Departmental Inquiries. 81. Inquiries as to organization or working of any institution. Miscellaneous. 82. Receipts of Board exempt from stamp duty. 83. Power to sell institution and acquire new site. 84. Regulations. 85. Repeal. Schedules.

Title.

Short Title.

Interpretation.

A BILL INTITULED An Act to consolidate and amend the Law relating to the Management of Public Hospitals and Charitable Institutions, and to the Distribution of Charitable Aid. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— 1. (1.) The Short Title of this Act is " The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1906 "; and it shall come into operation on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seven. (2.) Nothing in this Act shall apply to institutions established under any Act for the reception and treatment of persons of unsound mind, nor, except as to section hereof, shall it apply to any school or other institution under "The Industrial Schools Act, 1882." 2. In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context, — "Board" means.-'a Hospital and Charitable Aid Board constituted under this Act: " Contributor " means a person who in any district subscribes not less than one pound per annum or twenty pounds in one donation towards the funds of an institution, or for the purposes of charitable aid within such district : " Contributing local authority" means the Council of a borough or county, or the Board of any road or town district where "The Counties Act, 1886," is suspended or is not in operation, liable to pay a proportion of the expenditure required for the purposes of any institution, or for charitable aid: