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Reprint as at 17 May 2005

Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.

A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.

This Act is administered by the Ministry of Justice.

1   Short Title and commencement

Part 1 the sovereign, 2   head of state, 3   exercise of royal powers by the sovereign or the governor-general, 3a   advice and consent of executive council, 3b   exercise of powers and duties by administrator, 4   regency, 5   demise of the crown, part 2 the executive, 6   ministers of crown to be members of parliament, 7   power of member of executive council to exercise minister's powers, 8   appointment of parliamentary under-secretaries, 9   functions of parliamentary under-secretaries, 9a   solicitor-general may perform functions of attorney-general, 9b   appointment of person to act in place of solicitor-general, 9c   delegation of powers of attorney-general and solicitor-general, part 3 the legislature, the house of representatives, 10   house of representatives, 11   oath of allegiance to be taken by members of parliament, 12   election of speaker, 13   speaker to continue in office notwithstanding dissolution or expiration of parliament, 14   parliament, 15   power of parliament to make laws, 16   royal assent to bills, 17   term of parliament, 18   summoning, proroguing, and dissolution of parliament, 19   first meeting of parliament after general election, 20   lapse or reinstatement of parliamentary business, parliament and public finance.

21   Bills appropriating public money [Repealed]

22   Parliamentary control of public finance

Part 4 the judiciary, 23   protection of judges against removal from office, 24   salaries of judges not to be reduced, part 5 miscellaneous provisions, 25   general assembly library to be known as the parliamentary library, 26   united kingdom enactments ceasing to have effect as part of the law of new zealand, 27   consequential amendments to other enactments, 28   repeals, 29   transitional and consequential provisions relating to parliament.

Schedule 1 Consequential amendments

Schedule 2 Enactments repealed

An Act to reform the constitutional law of New Zealand, to bring together into one enactment certain provisions of constitutional significance, and to provide that the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 of the Parliament of the United Kingdom shall cease to have effect as part of the law of New Zealand

(1)   This Act may be cited as the Constitution Act 1986.

(2)   This Act shall come into force on 1 January 1987.

(1)   The Sovereign in right of New Zealand is the head of State of New Zealand, and shall be known by the royal style and titles proclaimed from time to time.

(2)   The Governor-General appointed by the Sovereign is the Sovereign's representative in New Zealand.

(1)   Every power conferred on the Governor-General by or under any Act is a royal power which is exercisable by the Governor-General on behalf of the Sovereign, and may accordingly be exercised either by the Sovereign in person or by the Governor-General.

(2)   Every reference in any Act to the Governor-General in Council or any other like expression includes a reference to the Sovereign acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council.

Compare: 1983 No 20 s 3

(1)   The Sovereign or the Governor-General may perform a function or duty, or exercise a power, on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council if that advice and consent are given at a meeting of the Executive Council at which neither the Sovereign nor the Governor-General is present if the Sovereign or the Governor-General is prevented from attending the meeting by some necessary or reasonable cause.

(2)   The performance of the function or duty, or the exercise of the power takes effect from the date of the meeting unless another time is specified for the performance of the function or duty, or for the exercise of the power, to take effect.

(3)   Neither the validity of the performance of the function or duty, nor the validity of the exercise of the power, can be challenged in any legal proceedings on the ground that the Sovereign or the Governor-General was not prevented from attending the meeting of the Executive Council by some necessary or reasonable cause.

Compare: 1924 No 11 s 23; 1983 No 22 s 3

Section 3A: inserted, on 1 November 1999, by section 2 of the Constitution Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 86).

(1)   The Administrator of the Government may perform a function or duty imposed on the Governor-General, or exercise a power conferred on the Governor-General, if—

(a)   the office of Governor-General is vacant; or

(b)   the Governor-General is unable to perform the function or duty or exercise the power.

(2)   The performance or exercise by the Administrator of the Government of a function or duty imposed, or a power conferred, on the Governor-General is conclusive evidence of the authority of the Administrator to perform the function or duty or exercise the power.

Compare: 1924 No 11 s 25E; 1986 No 115 s 9

Section 3B: inserted, on 1 November 1999, by section 2 of the Constitution Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 86).

(1)   Where, under the law of the United Kingdom, the royal functions are being performed in the name and on behalf of the Sovereign by a Regent, the royal functions of the Sovereign in right of New Zealand shall be performed in the name and on behalf of the Sovereign by that Regent.

(2)   Nothing in subsection (1) limits, in relation to any power of the Sovereign in right of New Zealand, the authority of the Governor-General to exercise that power.

Compare: 1983 No 20 s 4

(1)   The death of the Sovereign shall have the effect of transferring all the functions, duties, powers, authorities, rights, privileges, and dignities belonging to the Crown to the Sovereign's successor, as determined in accordance with the enactment of the Parliament of England intituled The Act of Settlement (12 & 13 Will 3, c 2) and any other law relating to the succession to the Throne, but shall otherwise have no effect in law for any purpose.

(2)   Every reference to the Sovereign in any document or instrument in force on or after the commencement of this Act shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be deemed to include a reference to the Sovereign's heirs and successors.

Compare: 1908 No 42

(1)   A person may be appointed and may hold office as a member of the Executive Council or as a Minister of the Crown only if that person is a member of Parliament.

(2)   Notwithstanding subsection (1),—

(a)   a person who is not a member of Parliament may be appointed and may hold office as a member of the Executive Council or as a Minister of the Crown if that person was a candidate for election at the general election of members of the House of Representatives held immediately preceding that person's appointment as a member of the Executive Council or as a Minister of the Crown but shall vacate office at the expiration of the period of 40 days beginning with the date of the appointment unless, within that period, that person becomes a member of Parliament; and

(b)   where a person who holds office both as a member of Parliament and as a member of the Executive Council or as a Minister of the Crown ceases to be a member of Parliament, that person may continue to hold office as a member of the Executive Council or as a Minister of the Crown until the expiration of the 28th day after the day on which that person ceases to be a member of Parliament.

Compare: 1979 No 33 s 9

Any function, duty, or power exercisable by or conferred on any Minister of the Crown (by whatever designation that Minister is known) may, unless the context otherwise requires, be exercised or performed by any member of the Executive Council.

Compare: 1924 No 11 s 25(e)

(1)   The Governor-General may from time to time, by warrant under the Governor-General's hand, appoint any member of Parliament to be a Parliamentary Under-Secretary in relation to such Ministerial office or offices as are specified in that behalf in the warrant of appointment.

(2)   A Parliamentary Under-Secretary shall hold office as such during the pleasure of the Governor-General, but shall in every case vacate that office within 28 days of ceasing to be a member of Parliament.

Compare: 1979 No 33 ss 11 , 12 ; 1985 No 48 s 5

(1)   A Parliamentary Under-Secretary holding office as such in respect of any Ministerial office shall have and may exercise or perform under the direction of the Minister concerned such of the functions, duties, and powers of the Minister of the Crown for the time being holding that office as may from time to time be assigned to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary by that Minister.

(2)   Nothing in subsection (1) limits the authority of any Minister of the Crown to exercise or perform personally any function, duty, or power.

(3)   The fact that any person holding office as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary in respect of any Ministerial office purports to exercise or perform any function, duty, or power of the Minister concerned shall be conclusive evidence of that person's authority to do so.

Compare: 1979 No 33 s 14

The Solicitor-General may perform a function or duty imposed, or exercise a power conferred, on the Attorney-General.

Compare: 1924 No 11 s 4; 1952 No 81 s 27

Section 9A: inserted, on 1 November 1999, by section 3 of the Constitution Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 86).

(1)   The Governor-General may appoint a barrister or solicitor of at least 7 years' practice to act—

(a)   in place of, or for, the Solicitor-General during the absence from office of the Solicitor-General or if the Solicitor-General is incapacitated in a way that affects the performance of his or her duties; or

(b)   during a vacancy in the office of Solicitor-General.

(2)   The performance of a function or duty or the exercise of a power by a person appointed under subsection (1) is, in the absence of proof to the contrary, sufficient evidence of the authority of that person to do so.

Compare: 1924 No 11 s 25B(1), (2); 1979 No 71 s 2

Section 9B: inserted, on 1 November 1999, by section 3 of the Constitution Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 86).

(1)   The Solicitor-General may, with the written consent of the Attorney-General, in writing delegate to a Deputy Solicitor-General, any of the functions or duties imposed, or powers conferred, on the Attorney-General.

(2)   The Solicitor-General may in writing delegate to a Deputy Solicitor-General any of the functions or duties imposed, or powers conferred, on the Solicitor-General, except for the power to delegate conferred by this subsection.

(3)   A delegation is revocable and does not prevent the Attorney-General or the Solicitor-General from performing the function or duty or exercising the power.

(4)   A delegation may be made on conditions specified in the instrument of delegation.

(5)   The fact that a Deputy Solicitor-General performs a function or duty or exercises a power is, in the absence of proof to the contrary, sufficient evidence of his or her authority to do so.

Section 9C: inserted, on 1 November 1999, by section 3 of the Constitution Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 86).

(1)   There shall continue to be a House of Representatives for New Zealand.

(2)   The House of Representatives is the same body as the House of Representatives referred to in section 32 of the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

(3)   The House of Representatives shall be regarded as always in existence, notwithstanding that Parliament has been dissolved or has expired.

(4)   The House of Representatives shall have as its members those persons who are elected from time to time in accordance with the provisions of the Electoral Act 1993 , and who shall be known as members of Parliament .

Compare: 1956 No 107 ss 11, 13; 1975 No 28 s 4

Section 10(4): amended, on 17 May 2005, by section 3 of the Constitution Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 48).

(1)   A member of Parliament shall not be permitted to sit or vote in the House of Representatives until that member has taken the Oath of Allegiance in the form prescribed in section 17 of the Oaths and Declarations Act 1957.

(2)   The oath to be taken under this section shall be administered by the Governor-General or a person authorised by the Governor-General to administer that oath.

Compare: 1950 No 3 s 2(4) ; New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 s 46 (UK)

Section 11(2): added, on 10 July 1987, by section 2 of the Constitution Amendment Act 1987 (1987 No 134).

The House of Representatives shall, at its first meeting after any general election of its members, and immediately on its first meeting after any vacancy occurs in the office of Speaker, choose one of its members as its Speaker, and every such choice shall be effective on being confirmed by the Governor-General.

Compare: 1956 No 107 s 14

A person who is in office as Speaker immediately before the dissolution or expiration of Parliament shall, notwithstanding that dissolution or expiration, continue in office until the close of polling day at the next general election unless that person sooner vacates office as Speaker.

(1)   There shall be a Parliament of New Zealand, which shall consist of the Sovereign in right of New Zealand and the House of Representatives.

(2)   The Parliament of New Zealand is the same body as that which before the commencement of this Act was called the General Assembly (as established by section 32 of the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 of the Parliament of the United Kingdom) and which consisted of the Governor-General and the House of Representatives.

Compare: 1950 No 3 s 2(2) ; New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 s 32 (UK)

(1)   The Parliament of New Zealand continues to have full power to make laws.

(2)   No Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed after the commencement of this Act shall extend to New Zealand as part of its law.

Compare: 1973 No 114 s 2; New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 s 53 (UK); Canada Act 1982 s 2 (UK); Australia Act 1986 s 1 (Commonwealth)

A Bill passed by the House of Representatives shall become law when the Sovereign or the Governor-General assents to it and signs it in token of such assent.

Compare: New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 s 56 (UK)

(1)   The term of Parliament shall, unless Parliament is sooner dissolved, be 3 years from the day fixed for the return of the writs issued for the last preceding general election of members of the House of Representatives, and no longer.

(2)   Section 268 of the Electoral Act 1993 shall apply in respect of subsection (1).

Compare: 1956 No 107 s 12

Section 17(2): substituted, on 1 July 1994, by section 271 of the Electoral Act 1993 (1993 No 87).

(1)   The Governor-General may by Proclamation summon Parliament to meet at such place and time as may be appointed therein, notwithstanding that when the Proclamation is signed or when it takes effect Parliament stands prorogued to a particular date.

(1A)   The Governor-General may, by Proclamation, change the place of meeting of Parliament set out in the Proclamation summoning Parliament if that place is unsafe or uninhabitable.

(2)   The Governor-General may by Proclamation prorogue or dissolve Parliament.

(3)   A Proclamation summoning, proroguing, or dissolving Parliament shall be effective—

(a)   on being gazetted; or

(b)   on being publicly read, by some person authorised to do so by the Governor-General, in the presence of the Clerk of the House of Representatives and 2 other persons,—

whichever occurs first.

(4)   Every Proclamation that takes effect pursuant to subsection (3)(b) shall be gazetted as soon as practicable after it is publicly read.

Compare: New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 ss 44, 82 (UK)

Section 18(1A): inserted, on 1 December 2002, by section 117 of the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002 (2002 No 33).

After any general election of members of the House of Representatives, Parliament shall meet not later than 6 weeks after the day fixed for the return of the writs for that election.

Compare: Bill of Rights art 13 (UK); Constitution of Australia (1900) s 5

(1)   Any Bill, petition, or other business before the House of Representatives or any of its committees during a session of a Parliament (any parliamentary business )—

(a)   does not lapse on the prorogation of that Parliament and may be resumed in the next session of Parliament (a session of that Parliament):

(b)   lapses on the dissolution or expiration of that Parliament, but may be reinstated in the next session of Parliament (a session of the next Parliament).

(2)   Parliamentary business is reinstated in that next session if, after that dissolution or expiration, the House of Representatives resolves that the parliamentary business be reinstated in that next session.

Compare: 1977 No 22 s 2(1)

Section 20: substituted, on 17 May 2005, by section 4 of the Constitution Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 48).

21   Bills appropriating public money

Section 21: repealed, on 17 May 2005, by section 5 of the Constitution Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 48).

It shall not be lawful for the Crown, except by or under an Act of Parliament,—

(a)   to levy a tax; or

(b)   to borrow money or to receive money borrowed from any person; or.

(c)   to spend any public money.

Compare: 1977 No 65 ss 53(1), 70; Bill of Rights art 4 (UK)

Section 22(b): substituted, on 25 January 2005, by section 37(1) of the Public Finance Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 113).

A Judge of the High Court shall not be removed from office except by the Sovereign or the Governor-General, acting upon an address of the House of Representatives, which address may be moved only on the grounds of that Judge's misbehaviour or of that Judge's incapacity to discharge the functions of that Judge's office.

Compare: 1908 No 89 ss 7 , 8 , 9

The salary of a Judge of the High Court shall not be reduced during the continuance of the Judge's commission.

Compare: 1908 No 89 s 10

(1)   The library heretofore known as the General Assembly Library shall, as from the commencement of this Act, be known as the Parliamentary Library.

(2)   The officer heretofore known as the Chief Librarian of the General Assembly Library shall be known, as from the commencement of this Act, as the Parliamentary Librarian.

(3)   Subject to section 27 , all references to the General Assembly Library or to the Chief Librarian of the General Assembly Library in any other enactment or in any document whatsoever shall hereafter, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as references to the Parliamentary Library and to the Parliamentary Librarian respectively.

(1)   As from the commencement of this Act the following enactments of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, namely,—

(a)   the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 (15 and 16 Vict, c 72); and

(b)   the Statute of Westminster 1931 (22 Geo V, c 4); and

(c)   the New Zealand Constitution (Amendment) Act 1947 (11 Geo VI, c 4),—

shall cease to have effect as part of the law of New Zealand.

(2)   The provisions of sections 20, 20A, and 21 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1924 shall apply with respect to the enactments specified in subsection (1) as if they were Acts of the Parliament of New Zealand that had been repealed by that subsection.

(3)   Without limiting the provisions of subsection (2), it is hereby declared that the effect of section 11 of the Statute of Westminster 1931 (22 Geo V, c 4) (which section declared that the expression Colony shall not, in any Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed after the commencement of the Statute of Westminster 1931, include a Dominion or any Province or State forming part of a Dominion) shall not be affected by virtue of the Statute of Westminster 1931 ceasing, by virtue of subsection (1), to have effect as part of the law of New Zealand.

The enactments specified in Schedule 1 are hereby amended in the manner indicated in that schedule.

(1)   The enactments specified in Schedule 2 are hereby repealed.

(2)   The Regulations Amendment Act 1962 is hereby consequentially repealed.

(3), (4)   Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s) .

(1)   The Parliament in being at the commencement of this Act (before the commencement of this Act called the General Assembly) shall continue in accordance with and subject to the provisions of this Act.

(2)   As from the commencement of this Act, every reference to the General Assembly or to the General Assembly of New Zealand in any enactment passed before the date of commencement of this Act and in any document executed before that date shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as a reference to the Parliament of New Zealand.

(3)   Subsection (2) shall not apply in respect of the Acts Interpretation Act 1924.

Agriculture (Emergency Powers) Act 1934 (1934 No 34) (RS Vol 1, p 87)

Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).

Civil Defence Act 1983 (1983 No 46)

Civil list act 1979 (1979 no 33), customs act 1966 (1966 no 19) (rs vol 2, p 57), economic stabilisation act 1948 (1948 no 38) (rs vol 6, p 227), foreign affairs and overseas service act 1983 (1983 no 128), government superannuation fund act 1956 (1956 no 47) (rs vol 13, p 97).

Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s) .

Judicature Act 1908 (1908 No 89) (1957 Reprint, Vol 6, p 699)

Oaths and declarations act 1957 (1957 no 88) (rs vol 4, p 1), official information act 1982 (1982 no 156), ombudsmen act 1975 (1975 no 9), parliamentary service act 1985 (1985 no 128), petroleum demand restraint act 1981 (1981 no 12), primary products marketing act 1953 (1953 no 10) (rs vol 4, p 201), public finance act 1977 (1977 no 65), public safety conservation act 1932 (1932 no 3) (rs vol 4, p 233), regulations act 1936 (1936 no 17) (rs vol 10, p 723), statutes amendment act 1936 (1936 no 58) (rs vol 1, p 31), treaty of waitangi act 1975 (1975 no 114) (rs vol 8, p 877), demise of the crown act 1908 (1908 no 42) (rs vol 2, p 323), legislature amendment act 1977 (1977 no 22) (rs vol 6, p 764), new zealand constitution amendment act 1970 (1970 no 94) (rs vol 10, p 463), new zealand constitution amendment act 1973 (1973 no 114) (rs vol 10, p 463), new zealand constitution amendment (request and consent) act 1947 (1947 no 44) (rs vol 10, p 461), royal powers act 1983 (1983 no 20), statute of westminster adoption act 1947 (1947 no 38) (rs vol 11, p 393).

2 Status of reprints

3 How reprints are prepared

4 Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989

5 List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)

1   General

This is a reprint of the Constitution Act 1986. The reprint incorporates all the amendments to the Act as at 17 May 2005, as specified in the list of amendments at the end of these notes.

2   Status of reprints

Under section 16D of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by the amendments to that enactment. This presumption applies even though editorial changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in the reprint.

This presumption may be rebutted by producing the official volumes of statutes or statutory regulations in which the principal enactment and its amendments are contained.

3   How reprints are prepared

4   changes made under section 17c of the acts and regulations publication act 1989.

Section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 authorises the making of editorial changes in a reprint as set out in sections 17D and 17E of that Act so that, to the extent permitted, the format and style of the reprinted enactment is consistent with current legislative drafting practice. Changes that would alter the effect of the legislation are not permitted.

A new format of legislation was introduced on 1 January 2000. Changes to legislative drafting style have also been made since 1997, and are ongoing. To the extent permitted by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, all legislation reprinted after 1 January 2000 is in the new format for legislation and reflects current drafting practice at the time of the reprint.

In outline, the editorial changes made in reprints under the authority of section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 are set out below, and they have been applied, where relevant, in the preparation of this reprint:

• omission of unnecessary referential words (such as “ of this section ” and “ of this Act ” )

• typeface and type size (Times Roman, generally in 11.5 point)

• layout of provisions, including:

• indentation

• position of section headings (eg, the number and heading now appear above the section)

• format of definitions (eg, the defined term now appears in bold type, without quotation marks)

• format of dates (eg, a date formerly expressed as “ the 1st day of January 1999 ” is now expressed as “ 1 January 1999 ” )

• position of the date of assent (it now appears on the front page of each Act)

• punctuation (eg, colons are not used after definitions)

• Parts numbered with roman numerals are replaced with arabic numerals, and all cross-references are changed accordingly

• case and appearance of letters and words, including:

• format of headings (eg, headings where each word formerly appeared with an initial capital letter followed by small capital letters are amended so that the heading appears in bold, with only the first word (and any proper nouns) appearing with an initial capital letter)

• small capital letters in section and subsection references are now capital letters

• schedules are renumbered (eg, Schedule 1 replaces First Schedule), and all cross-references are changed accordingly

• running heads (the information that appears at the top of each page)

• format of two-column schedules of consequential amendments, and schedules of repeals (eg, they are rearranged into alphabetical order, rather than chronological).

5   List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)

Constitution Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 48)

Public Finance Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 113): section 37(1)

Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002 (2002 No 33): section 117

Constitution Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 86)

Electoral Act 1993 (1993 No 87): section 271

Constitution Amendment Act 1987 (1987 No 134)

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1. NAME The name of the Association is the “Stewart 34 Owners Association”

2. OBJECTS The objects of the S34 Owners Association shall be to (a) promote, encourage and foster by all lawful means the development and growth of the Stewart 34 class yacht. (b) organise and conduct racing in this class both locally and internationally. (c) ensure that the Stewart 34 design be adhered to in full and regards to specifications, weights, lines and sail plans. (d) arrange and conduct suitable social functions as may be decided upon by the duly elected Working Committee.

3. POWERS The S34 Association shall have the power to do all such acts, deeds, matters and things as shall be incidental to or conductive to its objects or any of them including (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing words) the power to (a) make, amend or rescind rules or regulations not inconsistent with these rules pertaining to carrying out of all or any of the objects of the S34 Association (b) affiliate with any organisation whose objects are in the opinion of the S34 Association similar to or in sympathy with the objects of the S34 Association or whose functions may include the organisation or control of yachting whether on a provincial, local or international basis. (c) to make such donations or other payments as it may think fit.

4. CONSTITUTION The S34 Association shall consist of Ordinary Members, Honorary Members, Honorary Vice President, Life Members and Associate Members.

5. MEMBERSHIP A. Ordinary Members All Stewart 34 Owners shall be eligible for membership as ordinary members. Only registered boat owners are entitled to vote at meetings and where more than one owner only one vote is allowed. (a) Any application for Ordinary Membership shall be placed before the Executive Committee at its next meeting after receipt of application and the Executive Committee shall accept or reject such application. The Secretary shall notify the applicant of the result of the application. (b) A registered boat owner can be a member of the S34 Association when, to the satisfaction of the Committee, his boat is more than half completed. (c) Where boats have multiple owners each owner is to have a minimum of 20% financial stake in the boat to be accepted as an Ordinary memberB. Honorary Members and Vice Presidents (a) The Executive Committee may elect as an Honorary Member or Honorary Vice President of the S34 Association any person of distinction in public life or in relation to the sport of yachting or in relation to the Stewart 34 in particular. (b) Any Honorary member or Honorary Vice President so elected shall be exempt from payment of the annual subscription and shall not be entitled to vote at any meeting of the S34 Association but shall otherwise be entitled to all the privileges of Ordinary Membership.

C. Life Members (a) Any member of the S34 Association who has in the opinion of the Executive Committee rendered exceptional service to the S34 Association and in recognition of such service is recommended by the Executive Committee for election as a Life Member of the S34 Association may be elected a life member at any general meeting of the S34 Association. (b) A Life Member shall be exempt from any payment of the annual subscription but shall otherwise be entitled to all the privileges of ordinary members. D. Associate Membership Shall be invited to attend meetings but will be without voting rights

6. MEMBERS BOUND BY RULES Every member shall be deemed to consent to and be bound by the Rules and Bylaws of the S34 Association.

7. TERMINATION OF MEMBERSHIP (a) Any member may by notice in writing to the Secretary resign his membership of the S34 Association and shall thereupon cease to be a member of the S34 Association. (b) Any member whose subscription shall be unpaid after the last day of the financial year in which the same fell due may by resolution of the Executive Committee be declared to have ceased to be a member of the S34 Association. (c) The Executive Committee may upon the written complaint of one or more members of the S34 Association admonish, suspend or expel any member for conduct which in the opinion of the Executive Committee, is injurious to the welfare or character of the S34 Association or renders his membership no longer desirable, provided that no member shall be expelled unless two-thirds of the Executive Committee at the meeting shall vote in favour of that member’s expulsion after hearing that member if they should desire to be heard. A member has the right to appeal to a general meeting of the S34 Association if should they desire to be heard. (d) Every person who shall cease to be a member of the S34 Association shall forfeit any right to and interest in the property of the S34 Association, but shall continue to be liable for any unpaid annual subscriptions or other moneys owed by him to the S34 Association.

8. MANAGEMENT (a) The administration management and control of the affairs of the S34 Association shall be vested in an Executive Committee consisting of the following officers: 1. President 2. Vice President 3. Secretary/Treasurer 4. Minimum of 5 Committee members and no more than 8 (including office bearers) (b) The Officers shall be elected from the Registered members as an Annual General Meeting and shall hold office until the next Annual General Meeting when they shall retire but be eligible for re-election. (c) The Officers are to act for the Association members and tasked with managing the actions required to run the Association and are authorised to make decisions on their behalf for the betterment of the Stewart 34 Association. (d) The Executive Committee may from time to time appoint such Standing or Special Committee or sub-committee members it thinks fit and may delegate to such Committees any of the powers and duties of the Executive Committee. (e) The Executive Committee shall furnish to each Annual General Meeting of the S34 Association a report on the affairs of the S34 Association during the preceding financial year, together with an audited (if required) Statement of Income and Expenditure and Balance Sheet disclosing the financial position of the S34 Association. (f) In case any casual vacancy shall occur in any office the Executive Committee may appoint any member of the S34 Association to fill such vacancy, and the member so appointed shall hold office until the next Annual General Meeting.

9. FINANCIAL YEAR The Financial Year of the S34 Association shall commence on the 1st day of August in each year and end on the 31st July in the following year. (now 1st day July to 30th June)

10. SUBSCRIPTIONS Each member shall pay an annual subscription which is determined by the committee and fixed by the S34 Association at an Annual General Meeting

11. Signatures The signatories of the S34 Association shall be kept in the control of the Committee and managed by the Chairperson and another Committee Member.

12. TRUSTEES All S34 Association property shall be vested in the President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer for the time being who shall by virtue of their office be trustees thereof for the S34 Association.

13. APPLICATION OF INCOME The income and property of the organisation shall be applied solely towards the promotion of the Objects of The S34 Association. No Member of The S34 Association, or anyone associated with a Member, is allowed to take part in, or influence any decision made by the S34 Association in respect of payments to, or on behalf of, the Member or associated person of any income, benefit, or advantage. Except as provided in this Constitution: No portion of the income or property of the S34 Association shall be paid or transferred, directly or indirectly, by way of dividend, bonus, or otherwise to any Member or Committee Member; and No remuneration or other benefit in money or money’s worth shall be paid, or given, by the organisation to any Member or Committee Member except when payment is required for valid expenses or to cover promotional activities that have been agreed to. Any payments made to a Member of The S34 Association, or person associated with a Member, must be for goods or services that advance the charitable purpose of The S34 Association, and must be reasonable and relative to payments that would be made between unrelated parties. This provision and its effect must not be removed from the Constitution and must be included in any alteration of, addition to, or revision of, the Constitution.

12. MEETINGS (a) The Annual General Meeting of the S34 Association shall be held between 1st June and 31st August in each succeeding year, at a time and place fixed by the Executive Committee for the purpose of receiving and adopting the Annual Report and Accounts, electing of officers and transacting such other business as may be specified in the notice convening the meeting. Any member desiring to bring any special business or motion before the Annual General Meeting shall give notice to the Secretary in writing not later than twenty-one (21) days before the day fixed for the meeting. (b) The Secretary shall at the direction of the Executive Committee or upon the requisition in writing signed by at least six (6) members of the S34 Association convene a Special General Meeting to transact such business as shall be specified in the notice convening the meeting. Notice in writing of a Special General Meeting shall be given to each member no less than seven (7) days before the date fixed for the meeting. (c) At any General Meeting six (6) Ordinary Members personally present shall constitute a quorum. If no quorum shall be present thirty (30) minutes after the time for which the meeting has been convened the meeting shall be adjourned and re-convened at a later date. (d) At any General meeting the President or in his absence the Vice President or in his absence some member of the S34 Association elected from the meeting shall be Chairman. The Chairman shall in all cases have a deliberative vote and in cases of equality of voting shall have a casting vote. (e) At any General Meeting each Ordinary Member of the S34 Association have shall have one (1) vote which must be given personally. Every question shall in the first instance be determined on the voices, but if a poll is demanded it shall be decided on a show of hands. A ballot shall be held if demanded by not less than one-third of members qualified to vote and in such cases a suitable number of scrutineers shall be appointed by the meeting. The scrutineers shall conduct the ballot and certify the result to the Chairman. (f) Any resolution passed at a duly constituted General Meeting of the S34 Association shall be conclusive and binding upon all  members of the S34 Association.

13. RNZYS The RNZYS is to be notified in duplicate (one copy to the Race Committee) of any rule alteration or amendment.

14. ALTERATIONS OF RULE No addition to an alteration, amendment, recision or revision of the Constitution Rules or the Class Rules of the S34 Association shall be made except by a three-quarter majority of votes from those present and entitled to vote at an Annual General Meeting or a Special General Meeting called for the purpose, the notice of such meeting shall contain particulars of the addition, alterations, recision, amendment or revision to be proposed.

15. LIQUIDATION The S34 Association must be liquidated up if The S34 Association, at a General Meeting of its Members, passes a Special Resolution appointing a liquidator and requiring the S34 Association to be liquidated and this resolution is confirmed by further Special Resolution at a subsequent General Meeting called for that purpose and held not earlier than thirty (30) days after the date on which the resolution so to be confirmed is passed. If upon the winding-up or dissolution of the S34 Association there remains after the satisfaction of all its debts and liabilities any property whatsoever, the property shall not be paid to or distributed among the Members of the S34 Association but shall be given or transferred to some other association, organisation or body having objects similar to the objects of The S34 Association, or to some other charitable organisation or purpose within New Zealand

16. IDEMNITY S34 Association shall indemnify every member of the Committee, the Chairperson and other officers and employees of the S34 Association in respect of all liability arising from the proper performance of their functions connected with The S34 Association.

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Cash-strapped Trump is now selling $60 Bibles, U.S. Constitution included

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Then-President Donald Trump holds up a Bible outside St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., during a controversial 2020 photo-op. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Then-President Donald Trump holds up a Bible outside St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., during a controversial 2020 photo-op.

Former President Donald Trump is bringing together church and state in a gilded package for his latest venture, a $60 "God Bless The USA" Bible complete with copies of the nation's founding documents.

Trump announced the launch of the leather-bound, large-print, King James Bible in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday — a day after the social media company surged in its trading debut and two days after a New York appeals court extended his bond deadline to comply with a ruling in a civil fraud case and slashed the bond amount by 61%.

"Happy Holy Week! Let's Make America Pray Again," Trump wrote. "As we lead into Good Friday and Easter, I encourage you to get a copy of the God Bless The USA Bible."

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The Bible is inspired by "God Bless the USA," the patriotic Lee Greenwood anthem that has been a fixture at many a Trump rally (and has a long political history dating back to Ronald Reagan). It is the only Bible endorsed by Trump as well as Greenwood, according to its promotional website .

The Bible is only available online and sells for $59.99 (considerably more expensive than the traditional Bibles sold at major retailers, or those available for free at many churches and hotels). It includes Greenwood's handwritten chorus of its titular song as well as copies of historical documents including the U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Pledge of Allegiance.

"Many of you have never read them and don't know the liberties and rights you have as Americans, and how you are being threatened to lose those rights," Trump said in a three-minute video advertisement.

"Religion and Christianity are the biggest things missing from this country, and I truly believe that we need to bring them back and we have to bring them back fast."

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Trump critics on both sides of the aisle quickly criticized the product, characterizing it as self-serving and hypocritical.

Conservative political commentator Charlie Sykes slammed him for "commodifying the Bible during Holy Week," while Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota critiqued him for "literally taking a holy book and selling it, and putting it out there in order to make money for his campaign."

Trump says the money isn't going to his campaign, but more on that below.

Klobuchar added that Trump's public attacks on others are "not consistent with the teachings of the Bible," calling this "one more moment of hypocrisy." Tara Setmayer, a senior adviser for anti-Trump Republican PAC the Lincoln Project, called it "blasphemous ."

And former Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming, trolled Trump with a social media post alluding to his alleged extramarital affairs.

"Happy Holy Week, Donald," she wrote. "Instead of selling Bibles, you should probably buy one. And read it, including Exodus 20:14 ."

Christianity is an increasingly prominent part of his campaign

Trump has made a point of cultivating Christian supporters since his 2016 presidential campaign and remains popular with white evangelicals despite his multiple divorces, insults toward marginalized groups and allegations of extramarital affairs and sexual assault.

And his narrative of being persecuted — including in the courts — appears to resonate with his many Christian supporters.

Trump has increasingly embraced Christian nationalist ideas in public. He promised a convention of religious broadcasters last month that he would use a second term to defend Christian values from the "radical left," swearing that "no one will be touching the cross of Christ under the Trump administration."

He made similar comments in the Bible promotional video, in which he warned that "Christians are under siege" and the country is "going haywire" because it lost religion.

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"We must defend God in the public square and not allow the media or the left-wing groups to silence, censor or discriminate against us," he said. "We have to bring Christianity back into our lives and back into what will be again a great nation."

Trump himself is not known to be particularly religious or a regular churchgoer. He long identified as Presbyterian but announced in 2020 that he identified as nondenominational .

A Pew Research Center survey released earlier this month found that most people with positive views of Trump don't see him as especially religious, but think he stands up for people with religious beliefs like their own.

Trump said in the promotional video that he has many Bibles at home.

"It's my favorite book," he said, echoing a comment he's made in previous years. "It's a lot of people's favorite book."

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Trump's relationship to the Bible has been a point of discussion and sometimes controversy over the years.

In 2020, amid protests over George Floyd's murder, he posed with a Bible outside a Washington, D.C., church, for which he was widely criticized. U.S. Park Police and National Guard troops had tear-gassed peaceful protesters in the area beforehand, seemingly to make way for the photo-op, though a watchdog report the following year determined otherwise .

That same year, a clip of a 2015 Bloomberg interview, in which Trump declines to name his favorite — or any — Bible verse resurfaced on social media and went viral.

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An FAQ section on the Bible website says no profits will go to Trump's reelection campaign.

"GodBlessTheUSABible.com is not political and has nothing to do with any political campaign," it says.

However, the site adds that it uses Trump's name, likeness and image "under paid license from CIC Ventures LLC."

Trump is listed as the manager, president, secretary and treasurer of CIC Ventures LLC in a financial disclosure from last year.

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Trump's sales pitch focuses on bringing religion back to America.

"I want to have a lot of people have it," he said at one point in the video. "You have to have it for your heart and for your soul."

But many are wondering whether Trump has something else to gain from Bible sales while facing under mounting financial pressure.

There's his presidential reelection campaign, which has raised only about half of what Biden's has so far this cycle. Trump acknowledged Monday that he "might" spend his own money on his campaign, something he hasn't done since 2016.

There's also his mounting legal expenses, as he faces four criminal indictments and numerous civil cases. Trump posted bond to support a $83.3 million jury award granted to writer E. Jean Carroll in a defamation case earlier this month, and was due to put up another $454 million in a civil fraud case this past Monday.

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His lawyers had said last week that they had approached 30 companies for help making bond, but doing so was a "practical impossibility" — prompting New York's attorney general to confirm that if Trump did not pay, she would move to seize his assets . On Monday, the appeals court reduced the bond amount to $175 million and gave Trump another 10 days to post it.

Trump has evidently been trying to raise money in other ways.

The day after the civil fraud judgment was announced, he debuted a line of $399 golden, high-top sneakers , which sold out in hours . The company behind his social media app, Truth Social, started trading on the Nasdaq exchange on Tuesday, which could deliver him a windfall of more than $3 billion — though he can't sell his shares for another six months.

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Russell Coutts shows he’s not like most New Zealanders through SailGP dolphin fiasco - Paul Lewis

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I tried to see the SailGP schemozzle with the Hector’s dolphins from Sir Russell Coutts’ point of view, I really did.

Yes, New Zealand has too much red tape and, yes, SailGP has never been guilty of slicing up a dolphin of any description (that we know of); certainly not a species considered “nationally vulnerable”.

That precise wording means he was technically, semantically right about Hector’s dolphins not being endangered, though he did go a bit OTT saying someone had “lied” about that.

Hector’s dolphins aren’t a single species - their sub-species Māui’s dolphins are critically endangered, estimated to number only 54.

It was Hector’s dolphins guilty of stopping the show at Lyttelton Harbour last weekend - and they are said to number 15,000 by the Department of Conservation.

A whole 15,000, eh? What was anyone worrying about? There’s plenty of the little fellas and we all know how good humans are at ensuring vulnerable species recover and don’t go extinct.

Why, in the last 50 years, only 800 species of mammals, fish, reptiles, birds and amphibians have become extinct, according to the World Wildlife Fund. Plenty left.

And, yes, there is an awkward contradiction in the fact Lyttelton Harbour doesn’t preclude power boats, with their whizzing propellers which could, in theory, produce dolphin sashimi. There are rules, however, they must adhere to. Just as SailGP had to.

I am also certain SailGP has never, as Sir Russell said, had to take such “extremely restrictive” measures on any other course in the world.

That’s because Lyttelton Harbour is a marine mammal sanctuary. How many other sanctuaries has SailGP raced on? I’m betting on zero.

That’s like me starting up a global chainsaw event, inviting chainsaw experts from all over the world to compete in an open field, slicing up logs and what have you.

But, this time, I want to hold one in the grounds of a day care centre in Auckland - because I have never, ever, hurt a pre-school child with a chainsaw in previous events.

And you can’t turn around and savage people after SailGP agreed to marine sanctuary rules which were applied when the very thing they were designed for happened - a dolphin or dolphins on the course.

Sir Russell gave us a grandstand view of a seriously wealthy 62-year-old man expressing his frustration and entitlement at bureaucrats and pesky dolphins compromising the $5.5 million he says he pumps into the local economy. His bitter tirade about the cancelled racing often seemed to reach a pitch only dogs could hear, or maybe he was just echo-locating dolphins.

He harrumphed about taking the event somewhere else - with that veiled threat taking me back to the days after Coutts ditched Team NZ for Alinghi, taking much of the cream of New Zealand sailing with him. There were comments, made a few times after his defection, that it would be better for the America’s Cup if it were sailed somewhere else.

It was, until Emirates Team NZ won it back again.

That’s the weird thing - if it hadn’t been for New Zealand public funding, bureaucracy and sponsorship, Coutts may never have been an America’s Cup sailor in the first place. The New Zealand he now rails against may have changed vastly - but did we really deserve the childish “I’m taking my ball and going home” treatment?

I did get a laugh when, among all the comments, someone pointed out no one was talking about how the orca eat dolphins or mishaps in nets. I checked with DoC - they said there’s no evidence orca eat Hector’s dolphins (sharks do, apparently) and it turns out there are strict rules around nets too.

Even if orca do eat Hector’s dolphins, what the blue blazes has that got to do with anything?

Should we get a signed waiver from the orca to stop eating dolphins? Or are we better off to take, you know, measures which may ensure there are enough dolphins left for nature to take its course?

Peter Burling, the New Zealand SailGP skipper who won the Lyttelton event, earlier established the Live Ocean Foundation with Blair Tuke.

Their website says: “To have a healthy future, we must have a healthy ocean. We need to foster an ocean with clear, clean water, abundant fish populations and thriving marine ecosystems. Where we prioritise the importance of the ocean in a healthy future and invest in knowledge that supports this ambition. Where we understand that by restoring and protecting our ocean, we all benefit.”

In one website story, Burling says: “Right now, only a tiny percentage of the world’s ocean is protected. This is no truer than at home where less than one percent of New Zealand’s ocean space is protected. We might think we’re too small to matter, but New Zealand is guardian to one of the largest ocean spaces on the planet. We’re ocean people and it’s time to get ambitious about ocean action.”

The Lyttelton incident polarised people. Here’s my view: most New Zealanders want the racing and the dolphins. Simple. But through all of this, Sir Russell Coutts didn’t much sound like most New Zealanders - and he didn’t sound like he liked New Zealand very much.

Paul Lewis has been a journalist since the last ice age. Sport has been a lifetime pleasure and part of a professional career during which he has written four books, and covered Rugby World Cups, America’s Cups, Olympic & Commonwealth Games and more.

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