This Act may be cited as the Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre (Wairarapa) Amendment Act 1996, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre (Wairarapa) Act 1969 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(1) This subsection amended s 3(2) of the principal Act.

(2) This subsection inserted s 3(2A) and (2B) of the principal Act.

(1) This subsection amended s 9(2)(a) of the principal Act.

(2) Section 3(1) of the Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre (Wairarapa) Amendment Act 1975 is hereby consequentially repealed.

This section amended s 14(3) of the principal Act.

This section amended s 17 of the principal Act.

The actions of the Trust Board in preparing its accounts, and furnishing reports to the Minister pursuant to section 17 of the principal Act, and the actions of the Audit Office in auditing those accounts,—

• (a) For the period commencing on the 1st day of July 1992 and ending with the 31st day of December 1992 as if that period was a financial year of the Trust Board; and

• (b) For the periods of 12 months ending with the 31st day of December 1993, the 31st day of December 1994, and the 31st day of December 1995 as if those periods were financial years of the Trust Board—

are hereby validated and declared to have been lawful.