This Act may be cited as the Christchurch Tramway District Amendment Act, 1921, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Christchurch Tramway District Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Section three of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting therefrom the words “consisting of two Commissioners,” and substituting the words “consisting of three Commissioners”; and by omitting therefrom the words “The Commissioners in making such division shall have regard to such factors as population, rateable value of property, and the boundaries of the several districts of the various local authorities comprised within the said district.”

In any case where—

then no alteration shall be made in the representation of the district until the next ensuing triennial election, and the members for each subdistrict at the time the report of the Commissioners is gazetted shall remain in office until the next ensuing triennial election.

Section four of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “further Electoral Commission,” the words “consisting of three Commissioners”; and by omitting from paragraph (c) thereof the words “in such manner as to keep the representation of the various subdistricts as nearly as may be proportioned to the number of electors of and the value of rateable property in each subdistrict.”

Section five of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “the New Zealand Gazette” the words “within twenty-eight days after the said report shall be communicated to the Board.”

Section nine of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection one thereof the words “immediately preceding that.”

Section thirteen of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection four thereof the words “immediately preceding that.”

Section eighteen of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting therefrom the word “Tuesday,” and substituting the word “Thursday.”

Section thirty-four of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the following subsection:—

In respect to all employees of the Board, but to no greater extent, all and singular the powers, authorities, and discretions conferred upon Borough Councils by Part XXXVII of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, are hereby conferred upon the Christchurch Tramway Board, and sections three hundred and twenty-nine to three hundred and thirty-three of that Act are hereby incorporated in and shall be read, mutatis mutandis, with the principal Act.

For the purposes of this section the term “worker” shall include every person, male or female, who is employed in work of any kind for the Board; and the word “Board” shall be substituted for the word “Council” wherever the latter word occurs throughout the said sections.

The Board may in every financial year expend for purposes not authorized by any Act or law for the time being in force any sum or sums not amounting in the whole to more than two hundred and fifty pounds; and this provision shall be read as if it had come into force upon the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty, so as to validate any unauthorized expenditure incurred since that date.

It shall be lawful for the Board to pay out of the Board’s fund to the Christchurch Tramway Employees’ Sick Benefit Society such sums of money as the Board may from time to time resolve to pay to such society by way of subsidy; and this provision shall be read as if it had come into force upon the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty, so as to authorize and validate any subsidy made by the Board to the society since that date.