Cawthron Institute Trust Board Rating Exemption Act 1937

Cawthron Institute Trust Board Rating Exemption Act 1937

Private Act1937 No 5
Date of assent11 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.

  • Preamble

    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:—

1 Short Title

  • This Act may be cited as the Cawthron Institute Trust Board Rating Exemption Act 1937.

2 Cawthron Institute Trust Board's property exempt from liability for rates

  • Notwithstanding anything contained in The Rating Act 1925, or any other Act, any lands and buildings situated within the City of Nelson, the Tahunanui Town District, or the County of Waimea, and which are for the time being vested in the Board and which are used solely for the purposes of scientific research, or which are in the opinion of the local authority in whose district they are situate used principally for such purposes, shall be deemed not to be rateable property for the purposes of The Rating Act 1925, and in respect thereof the Board shall be exempt from liability for the payment of rates to any local authority whatsoever.

3 Remission of rates heretofore levied on Board's property

  • The Nelson City Council, the Tahunanui Town Board, the Waimea County Council, and the Nelson Harbour Board are hereby respectively authorized to remit or write off any rates heretofore charged or levied against the Board in respect of any such lands and buildings within their respective districts.

4 Act a private Act

  • This Act is hereby declared to be a private Act.