New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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| Local Act | 1970 No 9 |
| Date of assent | 1 October 1970 |
3 Council may provide community centres within the County of Bruce and may contribute toward the establishment and maintenance of community centres outside County area
An Act to empower the Bruce County Council to establish and maintain community centres within the County of Bruce, to raise and expend loans for such purpose, and to strike a rate or levy to cover the costs incidental to such establishment and maintenance and to strike a rate or levy to contribute towards the cost of establishing and maintaining community centres outside the County of Bruce from which residents of the County of Bruce are deriving benefit or are likely to derive benefit
WHEREAS, to meet the desires and requirements of rate-payers and residents of the County of Bruce, it is, or will be, necessary to provide adequate social, cultural, recreational, and educational facilities for the residents of the County: And whereas it is expedient that the Bruce County Council should be empowered to take steps towards the provision and maintenance, particularly within the residential areas of the County, of such facilities as the Council may think necessary to that end: And whereas some residents of the County of Bruce are likely to derive benefit from community centres established by adjoining local authorities at present and in the future: And whereas it is expedient that the Bruce County Council should be empowered to contribute towards the cost of establishing and maintaining such community centres: And whereas, under existing legislation, it is not possible for the Council to provide and maintain such facilities as aforesaid within the County of Bruce without disproportionate financial obligation being imposed on certain ratepayers, or to contribute towards the cost of establishing and maintaining such facilities established by adjoining local authorities from which residents of the County of Bruce are deriving or are likely to derive benefit, without disproportionate financial obligation being imposed on certain ratepayers:
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
