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(ii) Persons belonging to that party or group of related political parties were, on the 5th working day after the date of commencement of the Broadcasting Amendment Act 1996, deemed, by section 70D of this Act, to be constituency candidates at that general election for at least 5 seats in the House of Representatives.

The Broadcasting Amendment Act 1996 commenced on 1 July 1996.

Section 70D of the Act provides that where a political party states in its notice to the Commission pursuant to section 70C (d) of the Act that a person has declared his or her intention of becoming a constituency candidate at an election, that person shall, until noon on nomination day for that election, be deemed, for the purposes of section 75 (1) (a) (ii) of the Act, to be a candidate at that election, whether that person is nominated or not.

Any political party which wishes to give notice to the Commission should provide 10 copies, addressed to Dr Paul Harris, Chief Executive, Electoral Commission, P.O. Box 3050, Wellington. The Commission is located at Level 6, Greenock House, 39 The Terrace, Wellington. Telephone: (04) 474 0670. Facsimile: (04) 474 0674.

¹ As amended by the Broadcasting Amendment Act 1996.

² The ‘election period’ begins with writ day, and ends with the close of the day preceding polling day (section 69 of the Act).

³ See also section 75 (1) below, concerning provisions in force for the 1996 general election.

Explanatory Note

This note is not part of the notice but is intended to indicate its purpose.

The Broadcasting Standards Authority published a notice in the Gazette on 21 March 1996 pursuant to legislation in effect at that time. That notice invited political parties to give notice to the Authority that they considered they qualified (under different criteria) for allocations of time and money for election programmes.

The Broadcasting Amendment Act 1996 provides in section 23B that any notice given by the Broadcasting Standards Authority after the 1st day of March 1996 and before the date of commencement of that Act, being a notice published in the Gazette under section 70A of the principal Act, shall on the date of commencement of the Broadcasting Amendment Act 1996 cease to be of any legal effect.

The responsibility for the administration of the allocation of time and money to political parties for the broadcasting of election programmes has now passed to the Electoral Commission.

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Electoral Act 1993

Registration of Political Parties

Pursuant to Part IV of the Electoral Act 1993, the Electoral Commission resolved on 27 June 1996 to register the following political party and to enter the details shown below in the Register of Political Parties held at the office of the Electoral Commission, Level Six, Greenock House, 39 The Terrace, Wellington:

Name of Party: Ethnic Minority Party of New Zealand.

Party abbreviation: Ethnic Minority Party

Component parties: none

Dated at Wellington this 27th day of June 1996.

Dr P. HARRIS, Chief Executive, Electoral Commission.

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Registration of Political Party Logos

Pursuant to Part IV of the Electoral Act 1993, the Electoral Commission has registered the logo of the United New Zealand Party, and has recorded the registration of this party’s logo in the Register of Political Parties held at the office of the Electoral Commission, Level Six, Greenock House, 39 The Terrace, Wellington.

Dated at Wellington this 1st day of July 1996.

Dr P. HARRIS, Chief Executive, Electoral Commission.

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Land Transport Safety Authority

Transit New Zealand Act 1989

Bylaw Fixing the Maximum Speed of Vehicles on Parts of State Highway No. 6 in Athol in Southland at 80 km/h

Pursuant to section 61 (3) of the Transit New Zealand Act 1989, Transit New Zealand makes the following bylaw:

Bylaw

1. This bylaw may be cited as Transit New Zealand Bylaw 1996/12.

2. This bylaw shall come into force immediately.

3. In this bylaw “motor vehicle” has the meaning assigned to it in section 2 (1) of the Transport Act 1962.

4. No person shall drive a motor vehicle at a speed exceeding 80 kilometres an hour on that section of State Highway No. 6 at Athol, from a point measured 30 metres east of its junction with Albion Street (at RP 1061/2.97) to a point measured 370 metres west of its junction with Clyde Street (at RP 1061/3.79), a distance of approximately 820 metres.

This bylaw is made by delegated authority from the Transit New Zealand Authority.

Dated at Wellington this 9th day of May 1996.

J. H. VAN BARNEVELD, National State Highway Manager, Transit New Zealand.

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Traffic Regulations 1976

The Traffic (Southland District) Notice 1996

Pursuant to regulation 21 of the Traffic Regulations 1976 and to a delegation from the Minister of Transport dated 31 August 1990, I, Grant Stewart Ellis Milne, Secretary for Transport, give the following notice:

Notice

(1) This notice may be cited as the Traffic (Southland District) Notice 1996.

(2) The notice Limited Speed Zone Declared situated within Southland County at Athol dated the 25th day of October 1966*, is revoked.

Signed at Wellington this 26th day of June 1996.

G. S. E. MILNE, Secretary for Transport.

*New Zealand Gazette, 3 November 1966, No. 67, page 1729.

(RT01/6/Southland District)

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