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Waimakariri River Improvement Act 1922

Local Act	1922 No 22
Date of assent	31 October 1922

Contents

1 Short Title and commencement

2 Waimakariri River Trust District constituted

3 Waimakariri River Trust constituted

4 Trust incorporated

5 Election of Commissioners

6 First election

7 Application of certain provisions of River Boards Act and Land Drainage Act

8 Powers of Trust

9 Trust to approve proposed works

10 Obstruction of flow of flood-waters

11 Penalty for damage to Trust property

13 Works to be carried out by the Trust

14 Additional duties of Trust

15 Existing water-races protected

16 In lieu of paying compensation Trust may purchase land injuriously affected by its operations

17 Certain land vested in Trust as endowment

18 South Waimakariri River District abolished

19 Railway lands safeguarded

20 Waimakariri Harbour Board to exercise its powers subject to this Act

Schedule 1
The Waimakariri River Trust District

Schedule 2
Subdivisions of the Waimakariri River Trust District

Schedule 3
Sections in the River Boards Act 1908, and its amendments, and the Land Drainage Act 1908, and its amendments, which are incorporated in this Act

An Act to make Better Provision for the Improvement of the Waterway of the Waimakariri River and the Protection of certain Land in Canterbury.

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