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New Zealand Legislation: Acts

Acts are laws made by Parliament

Wellington City Empowering Act 1897

Local Act	1897 No 14
Date of assent	22 December 1897

Contents

2 Interpretation

Part 1
Overdrafts

3 Council may borrow to extinguish overdrafts

Part 2
Urgent works

4 Council may carry out scheduled works, and raise loan for same

Part 3
Town Hall

5 Council may sell or lease present municipal site, and borrow to erect new Town Hall [Repealed]

Part 4
Water-supply

6 Council may provide supply for higher levels

Part 5
Widening and extending streets

7 Power to improve streets and acquire lands, and borrow moneys, and sell or lease surplus lands [Repealed]

8 Rents and sale-moneys to be applied to loans [Repealed]

9 How and when this Part of Act to come into force [Repealed]

Part 6
Basin Reserve

10 Part of Basin Reserve thrown into adjoining street

Part 7
General provisions

11 Special rates may be struck for loans

12 Majority on polls

13 Miscellaneous

Schedule 1
Corporation overdrawn accounts

Schedule 3
Basin Reserve

An Act to confer Further Powers on the Corporation of the City of Wellington.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—