The Short Title of this Act is “The Otago Harbour Board Further Empowering Act, 1882.”

It shall be lawful for the Otago Harbour Board, and it is hereby authorized, to raise and borrow from time to time, in addition to any money already borrowed, a sum or sums of money not exceeding in the whole two hundred thousand pounds.

Out of the sum or sums of money raised under the authority of this Act not less than one-half of such sum or sums shall be expended on harbour works undertaken for the improvement of the bar at Otago Heads, so that vessels drawing twenty-three feet of water can safely enter the harbour, and for the general improvement of the lower harbour.

The Otago Harbour Board may from time to time make by-laws providing that harbour improvement rates, not exceeding in any case three shillings per ton, as shall be expressed in such by-laws, reckoned either by weight or measurement, as the said Board may determine, shall be levied upon all goods and merchandise discharged at, or shipped from, the Port of Dunedin.

The Board may from time to time alter, vary, or revoke such by-laws: Provided, however, that the maximum rate to be imposed shall not exceed the sum of three shillings per ton as above provided.

Nothing in this Act contained shall be deemed to repeal the provisions of clause twelve of “The Otago Harbour Board Empowering Act, 1875.”

This Act shall be deemed a special Act within the meaning of section one hundred and eighty-eight of “The Harbours Act, 1878.”