Borough of Rangiora Water-supply Act 1900

Borough of Rangiora Water-supply Act 1900

Local Act1900 No 29
Date of assent20 October 1900

An Act to empower the Borough of Rangiora to obtain a Water-supply.

  • Preamble

    [Repealed]

    The Preamble was repealed, as from 19 November 1907, by section 2 Statutes Repeal Act 1907 (1907 No 40).

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

1 Short Title

  • The Short Title of this Act is The Borough of Rangiora Water-supply Act 1900.

2 Corporation may obtain supply of water from River Ashley or Ngapari Creek without consent of Water-supply Board

  • For the purpose of obtaining a supply of water for the use of the inhabitants of the Borough of Rangiora from the River Ashley or from the Ngapari Creek (otherwise known as Wilder's Creek), in the Mandeville and Rangiora Road District, the Corporation of the said borough, or the Council thereof, may, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in The Water-supply Act 1891, or any Acts amending the same, or otherwise, exercise the powers with regard to waterworks and water-supply conferred upon them by The Municipal Corporations Act 1886, and any Acts amending the same, without first obtaining the consent of the Waimakariri-Ashley Water-supply Board, or any other Water-supply Board for the time being exercising jurisdiction in the Waimakariri-Ashley Water-supply District:

    Provided that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect the right of the Waimakariri-Ashley Water-supply Board to obtain its supply of water from the Ashley River at a point higher than the Gorge Bridge.