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Ashley River Improvement Act 1925

Public Act	1925 No 41
Date of assent	1 October 1925

Contents

1 Short Title and commencement

2 Ashley River Trust District constituted

3 Ashley 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 Trust may make and levy an administrative rate

9 Classification and rating by the Trust in the case of certain lands

10 Powers of Trust

11 Trust to approve proposed works

12 Obstruction of flow of flood-waters

13 Penalty for damage to Trust property

15 Works to be carried out by Trust

16 Additional duties of Trust

17 Existing water-races protected

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

19 Certain land vested in Trust as endowment

20 Saving of certain proprietary rights of Crown

21 Sefton-Ashley Drainage District abolished

22 Railway lands safeguarded

Schedule 1
The Ashley River Trust District.

[Repealed]

Schedule 2
Subdivisions of the Ashley River Trust District.

[Repealed]

Schedule 5
Ashley Domain.

An Act to make Better Provision for the Improvement of the Waterway of the Ashley 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:—