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management of the same, and for the encouragement of research by the 

 members of the Institute ; and in all matters, specified or unspecified, 

 shall have power to act for and on behalf of the Institute. 



7. (1.) Any casual vacancy in the Board, howsoever caused, shall be 

 filled within three months by the society or authority that appointed 

 the member whose place has become vacant, and if not filled within that 

 time the vacancy shall be filled by the Board. 



(2.) Any person appointed to fill a casual vacancy shall only hold 

 office for such period as his predecessor would have held office under 

 this Act. 



8. (1.) Annual meetings of the Board shall be held in the month of 

 January in each year, the date and place of such annual meeting to be 

 fixed at the previous annual meeting. 



(2.) The Board may meet during the year at such other times and 

 places as it deems necessary. 



(3.) At each annual meeting the President shall present to the 

 meeting a report of the work of the Institute for the year preceding, and 

 a balance-sheet, duly audited, of all sums received and paid on behalf 

 of the Institute. 



9. The Board may from time to time, as it sees fit, make arrange- 

 ments for the holding of general meetings of members of the Institute, 

 at times and places to be arranged, for the reading of scientific papers, 

 the delivery of lectures, and for the general promotion of science in New 

 Zealand by any means that may appear desirable. 



10. The Minister of Finance shall from time to time, without further 

 appropriation than this Act, pay to the Board the sum of five hundred 

 pounds in each financial year, to be applied in or towards payment of the 

 general current expenses of the Institute. 



11. Forthwith upon the making of any regulations or the publica- 

 tion of any Transactions, the Board shall transmit a copy thereof to the 

 Minister of Internal Affairs, who shall lay the same before Parliament if 

 sitting, or if not, then within twenty days after the commencement of the 

 next ensuing session thereof. 



Schedule. 



Enactments consolidated. 



1903, No. 48.— The New Zealand Institute Act, 1903. 



EEGULATIONS. 



The following are the regulations of the New Zealand Institute under 

 the Act of 1903 :— * 



The word "Institute" used in the following regulations means the 

 New Zealand Institute as constituted by the New Zealand Institute 

 Act, 1903. 



Incorporation of Societies. 



1. No society shall be incorporated with the Institute under the pro- 

 visions of the New Zealand Institute Act, 1903, unless such society shall 

 consist of not less than twenty-five members, subscribing in the aggregate 



* New Zealand Gazette, 14th July, 1901. 



