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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." 



REGULATIONS. 



The following are the regulations of the New Zealand Institute under 

 the Act of 1903 :— * 



The word "Institute" used in the followmg 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 

 provisions of " The New Zealand Institute Act, 1903," unless such 

 society shall consist of not less than twenty-five members, subscribing in 

 the aggregate a sum of not less than £25 sterling annually for the pro- 

 motion of art, science, or such other branch of knowledge for which it 

 is associated, to be from time to time certified to the satisfaction of the 

 Board of Governors of the Institute by the President for the time being 

 of the society. 



2. Any society incorporated as aforesaid shall cease to be incorporated 

 with the Institute in case the number of the members of the said society 

 shall at any time become less than twenty-five, or the amount of money 

 annually subscribed by such members shall at any time be less than £25. 



3. The by-laws of every society to be incorporated as aforesaid shall 

 provide for the expenditure of not less than one - third of the annual 

 revenue in or towards the formation or support of some local public 



* New Zealand Gazette, 14th July, 1904. 



