What the official record says
This Act is the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act , and may also be cited as— the New Zealand Geographic Board Act ; or Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa Act . This Act comes into force on . This Act comes into force on a date to be appointed by the Governor-General by Order in Council; and 1 or more Orders in Council may be made appointing different dates for different provisions and different purposes. The purposes of this Act are to— provide for— the continuation of the New Zealand Geographic Board as the same body as that established under the New Zealand Geographic Board Act 1946, with the primary responsibility for naming geographic features and Crown protected areas; and the membership of the Board, so as to ensure adequate representation on the Board of communi