This Act may be cited as the Taumarunui Hospital District Act, 1914, and shall commence on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and fifteen, save that all elections, appointments, Orders in Council, notices, or regulations required for the purpose of bringing this Act into operation on that date may be held, made, or issued at any time after the passing of this Act.

There is hereby constituted a hospital district under the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, to be called the Taumarunui Hospital District, which shall comprise the Counties of Kaitieke and Ohura and all that area in the Taupo West County described in the Schedule hereto.

The boundaries of the Waikato Hospital District are hereby altered by excluding therefrom the Kaitieke and Ohura Counties and all that area in the Taupo West County described in the Schedule hereto.

The Board of the Taumarunui Hospital District shall consist of such number of representatives of the contributory districts within the hospital district as the Governor, by Order in Council, from time to time determines.

The first election of members of the said Board shall be held on such day as the Governor, by Order in Council, appoints; and by the same or any subsequent Order in Council the Governor may make all such provisions as are deemed necessary for the purposes of that election.

The Governor may, by Order in Council, determine what part (if any) of the property and liabilities of the Waikato Hospital and Charitable Aid Board shall become the property and liabilities of the Taumarunui Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, and the said Order in Council shall have effect according to the tenor thereof.