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24 of any such rules as aforesaid shall be given to every member of the Council fourteen clear days before the day fixed for such meeting.

(3) Every resolution making, amending, or revoking any such rules as aforesaid shall be published in the Gazette and shall have force and effect as from the date of gazetting thereof or some later date to be specified in such resolution.

(4) Prima facie evidence that any rule under this section has been duly made and remains in force may be given in all legal proceedings by the production of a copy of the Gazette purporting to contain such rule or by the production of a copy of such rule purporting to be printed by the Government Printer.

12. The Minister of Finance shall, out of moneys appropriated by Parliament for the purpose, pay to the Council the sum of five hundred pounds in each financial year commencing with the year beginning on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, to be applied in or towards payment of the general expenses of the Society.

13. On the passing of this Act all real and personal property of every description vested in the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute shall vest in the Society without conveyance or assignment for the estate and interest of the said Board therein, subject to all liabilities, charges, obligations, or trusts affecting that property, and all the contracts, debts, and liabilities of the said Board shall become the contracts, debts, and liabilities of the Society.

14. Forthwith upon the gazetting of any resolution making, amending, or revoking any rules under this Act or the publication of any transactions the Council shall transmit a copy thereof to the Minister for the time being in charge of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, who shall lay the same before Parliament if then sitting, or if not, then within twenty-one days after the commencement of the next ensuing session.

15. (1) The New Zealand Institute Act, 1908, the New Zealand Institute Amendment Act, 1930, section seven of the Finance Act, 1925, and section seven of the Finance Act, 1931 (No. 2), are hereby repealed.