• Preamble

  WHEREAS the works undertaken for the purpose of controlling the level of the waters of Lake Taupo, and referred to in section 34 of the Finance Act (No 3) 1944, were designed and constructed for the purpose of controlling those waters within a range of levels none of which exceeds the maximum working level of 357.387 metres above mean sea level Moturiki datum (1956 survey), or the equivalent level determined for any subsequent survey made by the Surveyor-General in substitution therefor or amendment thereof: And whereas it is not at present proposed to control those waters at any higher working level.

  The words in square brackets were substituted for the words “one thousand one hundred and seventy-seven feet above sea-level” by section 2(1) of the Lake Taupo Compensation Claims Amendment Act 1976.

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