The Short Title of this Act is “The Kowai Domain Board Empowering Act, 1884.”

The Kowai Domain Board may, by resolution from time to time to be passed, which resolution shall be advertised in some newspaper circulating in the Kowai Road Board District twice a week at least for two successive weeks prior to the days hereinafter referred to, determine that, as to not more than six days in any year, which days shall be specified in such resolution, but shall not be one or other of the days mentioned in the Schedule hereto, any person desiring to obtain admission to the Kowai Domain Recreation Reserve, number two thousand and sixty-six on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the Canterbury District, in the Ashley or Kowai Road District, shall not be entitled to obtain such admission upon any one of such days unless upon payment to the said Board, or to some person, body, or society (incorporate or not) named by the said Board in such resolution, of a fee or charge to be fixed by such resolution, and which shall not exceed one shilling for each person, with an extra shilling for every horse or vehicle which he may desire to take with him, unless such person desires to obtain admission to the stand hereinafter mentioned, in which case an additional fee or charge not exceeding ten shillings, to be fixed as aforesaid, may be imposed prior to his obtaining admission to such stand: Provided that not more than ten shillings shall be charged for admission to such stand during any one day.

The Board may, by resolution, at any time authorize any person, body, or society (incorporate or not) to erect upon some portion of the said reserve a stand or pavilion, upon such terms to as plans, size, situation, mode and price of admission thereto, custody, and otherwise, in all respects as the Board shall, by such resolution, determine.

Any person who shall enter the said reserve or stand upon any such day so fixed without having paid such fee or charge according to the said resolution shall be liable to a penalty of not more than twenty shillings.

This Act shall continue in operation until the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, and no longer.