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“ Obligations (3) ⁠Part 3 contains provisions on obligations (for example, MSD’s obligations, and each beneficiary’s obligations—see the guide in section 104) .
Factors affecting benefits (4) ⁠Part 4 contains provisions on factors affecting benefits (for example, insurance, entitlement to overseas pensions, failure to assist child support, shared care of a dependent child, hospitalisation, being in custody in prison or on remand, and absence from New Zealand—see the guide in section 183) . ”

“ It shall have power to make regulations under which societies may become incorporated to the Institute, and to declare that any incorporated society shall cease to be incorporated if such regulations are not complied with, and such regulations on being published in the Gazette shall have the force of law. ”

“ Neither the President nor the Councillors are personally liable for any act or default done or made by the Society, the Council, or any officer or employee of the Society, in good faith in the course of the operations of the Society. ”

“ Every person who, immediately before the commencement of the Royal Society of New Zealand Amendment Act 2012, is an appointed Councillor under section 23 is deemed to have been appointed for a term of 3 years.
“ (3) The code of professional standards and ethics issued under section 34 that is in force immediately before the commencement of the Royal Society of New Zealand Amendment Act 2012 continues in force and applies to members of the Society as if references to science and technology were a reference to science, technology, and the humanities.” ”

“ One additional member may from time to time be appointed by the Board for a term not exceeding two years, save that any such member may, on the expiration of his term of office, be reappointed as a member of the Board. ”

“ The Board of Governors shall have power to appoint a fit person, to be known as the "President," to superintend and carry out all necessary work in connection with the affairs of the Institute, and to provide him with such further assistance as may be required. ”

“ The Society shall consist of the persons who and the bodies which, in accordance with its rules, are for the time being its Fellows, its honorary members, its member bodies, and the members of its member bodies. ”

“ Every President and Vice-President shall come into office at the close of the annual meeting at which he was appointed and shall hold office until his successor comes into office.
" (3a) The President shall be eligible for reappointment to office for a further term of two years.
" (3b) Each Vice-President shall be eligible for reappointment to office for a further term of one year." ”

“ If there is an equality of votes between candidates under subsection (2) and the addition of 1 vote would entitle any of those candidates to be elected, the Chief Executive Officer of the Society appointed under clause 1 of the Schedule must determine by lot which candidate is to be appointed. ”

“ A person (P) has restricted work capacity if P is permanently and severely restricted in P’s capacity for work because of a health condition, or because of injury or disability arising (in either case) from an accident or existing from birth. ”

“ Equal employment opportunities—For the purposes of clause 3, an equal employment opportunities programme must be implemented by the Chief Executive Officer and must be aimed at the identification and elimination of all aspects of policies, procedures, and other institutional barriers that cause or perpetuate, or tend to cause or perpetuate, inequality in respect of the employment of any persons or groups of persons. ”

“ Unauthorised expenditure—The Council may in every financial year, out of money not appropriated or held in trust for any special purpose, expend for purposes not authorised by any Act or law for the time being in force any sum or sums not amounting in the whole to more than one hundred pounds. ”

“ The purpose of this section is to encourage specified recipients of a supported living payment to undertake open employment in order to establish whether they can sustain that employment and cease receiving that benefit. ”

“ One member to be appointed by each of the other incorporated societies during the month of December in each alternate year.
Two members appointed by the Governor in Council to retire annually.5. (1.) Of the members appointed by the Governor in Council two shall retire annually on the appointment of their successors; the first two members to retire shall be decided by lot, and thereafter the two members longest in office without reappointment shall retire. ”

“ The Member Bodies Committee may initiate discussions and investigations and make recommendations to the Council on all aspects of the advancement of science in New Zealand, and in particular shall advise the Council on all matters concerning the duties, obligations, and privileges of the member bodies. ”

“ Endowment of Society—For the purpose of providing funds for the exercise of the functions of the Society in the promotion of science, the Minister shall, in, the financial year commencing on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and sixty-six, and in every financial year thereafter, pay to the Society such sum or sums as may be appropriated by Parliament for the purpose. ”

“ The Council may resolve that any special report on scientific matters shall be transmitted to the Minister, who may lay the same before Parliament within twenty-eight days after the date on which he receives the same if Parliament is then in session, and, if not, may lay the same before Parliament within twenty-eight days after the date of the commencement of the next ensuing session. ”

“ For all legal proceedings, the production of a copy of the Gazette purporting to contain any such rule, or the production of a copy of any such rule purporting to be printed by the Government Printer, shall, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be sufficient evidence that the rule has been duly made and remains in force. ”

“ Obligation to initiate investigations—The Society shall, whenever called upon by the Minister of Science or any other Minister of the Crown, initiate investigations and procure reports upon any scientific subject. ”