Preamble

WHEREAS by The Dunedin City Corporation Empowering Act 1920, the Corporation of the City of Dunedin was empowered to construct and erect, in accordance with the plan deposited in the office of the Public Works Department at Wellington as Number 49402, a dam or weir across the Waipori River at a point in such river shown on the said plan: And whereas by The Dunedin City Corporation Empowering Act 1924, the said Corporation is empowered to raise the height of the said dam or weir to one hundred and ten feet above the bed of the said river as shown on the plan deposited in the office of the Public Works Department at Wellington as Number 60375, and at all times to maintain the said dam or weir and to impound, collect, divert, and take away for its absolute use and benefit all the waters in the Waipori River for the purpose of generating electricity and supplying the same as motive power and for lighting and for any other purpose whatsoever: And whereas the said Corporation proposes to erect in the Waipori River a dam or weir in lieu of or in addition to and below the site of the said dam or weir mentioned in the said Act:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:—

This Act may be cited as the Dunedin City Corporation Empowering Amendment Act 1927, and shall be read together with and deemed part of The Dunedin City Corporation Empowering Act 1924 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(1) The said Corporation is hereby empowered to construct and erect a dam or weir across the Waipori River at any point in such river to be determined by the Corporation below the site of the said dam or weir mentioned in the principal Act:

Provided, however, that nothing herein shall empower the said Corporation to raise the level of the water of the said river at the site of the said dam or weir mentioned in the principal Act to a greater height than one hundred and ten feet above the bed of the said river as shown on the said plan deposited in the office of the Public Works Department at Wellington as Number 60375.

(2) The construction and erection of the said dam or weir shall be carried out in accordance with detail working drawings and specifications to be submitted by the said Corporation and approved by the Minister of Public Works.

Dunedin City Corporation Empowering Amendment Act 1927

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