| Private Act | 1937 No 5 |
| Date of assent | 11 December 1937 |
An Act to exempt certain Lands and Buildings for the time being vested in and used by the Cawthron Institute Trust Board from Liability for Payment of Rates, and to authorize certain Local Authorities to remit certain Rates heretofore charged or levied against the Board in respect of the Lands and Buildings now vested in the Board.
WHEREAS the Cawthron Institute Trust Board (hereinafter called the Board), a body corporate constituted under The Thomas Cawthron Trust Act 1924, is authorized, for the purpose of any trust under its control, to hold land of any tenure, and is the owner of certain lands and buildings in the City of Nelson, the Tahunanui Town District, and the County of Waimea: And whereas the lands and buildings of the Board are rateable property within the meaning of The Rating Act 1925: And whereas it is desirable to exempt the Board from payment of rates to any local authority in respect of certain of its lands and buildings and to authorize the Nelson City Council, the Tahunanui Town Board, the Waimea County Council, and the Nelson Harbour Board to remit certain rates already due and payable by the Board in respect of such lands and buildings now vested in it:
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—