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1965, No. 38 (2) Any such rules may from time to time be amended or revoked in like manner.

(3) Notice of every resolution proposed to be submitted to any such general meeting for the making, amending, or revocation of any such rules shall be forwarded to every Fellow and to every member body at least thirty clear days before the meeting.

(4) Every resolution making, amending, or revoking any such rules shall be published in the Gazette, and shall have effect as from the date of its publication in the Gazette or some later date to be specified in the resolution:

Provided that no rule providing for the manner in which money belonging to or vested in the Society may be invested shall have effect until it has been approved by the Governor-General in Council.

(5) For all legal proceedings, the production of a copy of the Gazette purporting to contain any such rule, or the production of a copy of any such rule purporting to be printed by the Government Printer, shall, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be sufficient evidence that the rule has been duly made and remains in force.

(6) All rules of the Society made by the Council under any of the enactments repealed by this Act, so far as they were subsisting or in force at the time of the repeal and could have been made under this Act, shall continue and have effect as if they had been made under this Act and as if this Act had been in force when they were made.

Cf. 1933, No. 17, s. 11

18. Endowment of Society—For the purpose of providing funds for the exercise of the functions of the Society in the promotion of science, the Minister shall, in, the financial year commencing on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and sixty-six, and in every financial year thereafter, pay to the Society such sum or sums as may be appropriated by Parliament for the purpose.

Cf. 1933, No. 17, s. 12

19. Exemption from taxes—The Society is hereby declared to be exempt from the payment of land tax and income tax.

Cf. 1950, No. 20, s. 20

20. Accounts—(1) The Council of the Society shall keep full and correct accounts of all money received and expended