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Tauranga City Council And Maunganui Borough Council (Tauranga Harbour Bridge) Empowering Act 1972

Local Act	1972 No 4
Date of assent	14 September 1972

Contents

2 Interpretation

3A Empowering Harbour Board to unite with City Council and Borough Council in construction, etc, of bridge

4 Joint committee

5 Authority to construct, maintain, manage, and control bridge

6 Authority for Harbour Board to grant perpetual easements and licences

7 Harbour Board rights over land to be protected

8 Plans and specifications for proposed bridge to be prepared

9 Approval of plan

10 United Authorities to comply with requirements of the Harbours Act 1950

11 Alterations or variations of plans to be submitted for approval

12 Works not to be commenced until plans and specifications finally approved

13 Application of other Acts

14 United Authorities to comply with Harbour Board requirements

15 Harbour Board to forward complaints to Minister

16 Harbour Board may act in cases of emergency

17 Bridge to be property lighted

18 Cost of bridge

19 Tolls to be collected for use of bridge

20 Exemption from payment of tolls

22 Provisions of Local Government Act 1974 applicable to bylaws

22A Financial records, etc

23 Harbour Board entitled to recover additional costs of piloting vessels

24 Arbitration in the event of disputes

An Act to empower the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Tauranga, and the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the Borough of Mount Maunganui, to embark upon a joint scheme for the construction, maintenance, and control of a bridge across the Tauranga Harbour

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