Wanganui River Bridge No 2 Act 1911

Local Act		1911 No 40
Date of assent		28 October 1911

	Title
	Preamble.
1	Short Title.
2	Interpretation.
3	Apportionment of cost of construction and maintenance.
4	Power to borrow.
5	Bridge to be vested in and under control of Wanganui Borough.
6	Power to construct tramway over bridge.
7	Incorporation of certain Acts.

An Act to authorize the vesting of the Wanganui River Bridge No. 2, connecting the Boroughs of Wanganui and Wanganui East in the Wanganui Borough, and directing the same to be within the District of the Wanganui Borough, and to authorize the Construction of a Tramway across the said Bridge.

Preamble.

WHEREAS the Corporation of the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Wanganui and the Corporation of the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Wanganui East recently determined to construct and maintain a bridge across the Wanganui River with the object of bringing the two boroughs more conveniently into communication with each other: And whereas an Order in Council authorizing the construction of the said bridge was duly issued on the fifteenth day of March, nineteen hundred and eleven, and gazetted in the New Zealand Gazette of date the sixteenth day of March, nineteen hundred and eleven, No. 21: And whereas the aforementioned Corporations propose to construct a tramway within the meaning of the Tramways Act, 1908, and the amendments thereof, across the said bridge: And whereas it is desirable that the said bridge should be declared to be within the district of the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Wanganui, and that the control of the said bridge during the course of the erection thereof and after the erection thereof should be vested in the Corporation of the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Wanganui or the Council thereof: And whereas it is desirable to give effect to such desire:

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 Wanganui River Bridge No. 2 Act, 1911.

2 Interpretation.

In the interpretation of this Act the following expressions shall, unless the context shall require otherwise, have the meanings annexed thereto:—

“The Wanganui Borough” shall mean the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Wanganui as constituted by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908:

“The Wanganui East Borough” shall mean the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Wanganui East as constituted by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908.

3 Apportionment of cost of construction and maintenance.

The cost of the construction of the said bridge shall be borne by the Wanganui Borough and the Wanganui East Borough in equal shares, and the cost of maintaining the said bridge shall be apportioned from time to time by the Governor under the powers conferred by section one hundred and twenty of the Public Works Act, 1908.

4 Power to borrow.

It shall be lawful for the Wanganui Borough, and it is hereby authorized, to raise and borrow from time to time for the purposes of the said bridge, and of matters connected with the construction and maintenance thereof, such sum or sums as shall be by it deemed to be necessary therefor, not exceeding in the whole the sum of eleven thousand five hundred pounds. It shall also be lawful for the Wanganui East Borough for the purposes aforesaid, and it is hereby authorized, to raise and borrow from time to time for the purposes of the said bridge, and of matters connected with the construction and maintenance thereof, such sum or sums as shall be by it deemed to be necessary therefor, not exceeding in the whole the sum of eleven thousand five hundred pounds:

Provided that no greater rate of interest shall be paid than five pounds per centum per annum upon any sum or sums so borrowed.

5 Bridge to be vested in and under control of Wanganui Borough.

The said bridge and every part thereof shall from time to time as the same is constructed become part of the Wanganui Borough, and be within the district of the Wanganui Borough, and shall be vested in and be under the control of the Wanganui Borough.

6 Power to construct tramway over bridge.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Tramways Act, 1908, the Wanganui Borough, subject to such extension being duly authorized under the said Act, may construct or contract for the construction of, and may work or contract respecting the working of, a tramway to and upon the said bridge, and may make agreements with any other local body for the continuation thereof, and may use thereon or permit the use thereon of such motive power as may be authorized in such authorizing order.

7 Incorporation of certain Acts.

The provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, and the Public Works Act, 1908, relating to bridges are incorporated herewith.

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