• Preamble

  WHEREAS there was incorporated in Great Britain by Royal Charter dated the fourteenth day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, a body corporate known as the Girl Guides Association: And whereas the Girl Guides Association was the outcome of a movement initiated in Great Britain for the special training and instruction of girls in the principles of discipline, loyalty, and good citizenship: And whereas the aforesaid movement has spread throughout the British Commonwealth of Nations and elsewhere, and there has for many years past existed in the Dominion of New Zealand an unincorporated organization working as a branch of and in close co-operation with the Girl Guides Association and calling itself the Girl Guides Association (Dominion of New Zealand Branch) (hereinafter referred to as the said Association): And whereas the said Association is governed by a body called the General Council of the New Zealand Branch, the affairs of the said Association being conducted and managed by the General Council in accordance with the constitution adopted under common seal of the Association on the fourteenth day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, which constitution has been approved by the Girl Guides Association in Great Britain under the common seal thereof: And whereas in the course of its existence the New Zealand Branch of the said Association has acquired real and personal property in New Zealand, and gifts, grants, and contributions have been received by it or have been vested in trustees for the benefit of or for the use of the said Association generally or for the benefit of some particular company, pack, or other local unit within the organization: And whereas it is desirable that the General Council should be incorporated so that the organization in New Zealand can function on similar lines to the Girl Guides Association in Great Britain:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—