Every local body whose district is named in the Schedule hereto, or which shall be added as a contributing local body by Order in Council made under section eight of the Auckland War Memorial Museum Maintenance Amendment Act 1945, shall contribute annually towards the efficient maintenance and support of the Auckland War Memorial Museum such sum per head of the total population of its district, not exceeding one shilling per head of such total population, as shall be fixed in each year by the executive council or body controlling the affairs of the Institute and Museum.

The sum per head so fixed in each year shall apply to each and all of the said local bodies.

For the purposes of this section, the total populations of the respective districts shall be taken at the figures estimated by the Government Statistician on or as at the twenty-eighth day of February in each year and based on such statistics and other information as shall then be available to him, and his certificate shall be final and conclusive.

In the event of any portions of the districts named in the Schedule hereto being constituted as separate local districts (whether or not with the addition of further areas), the local body of each such newly constituted district shall thereupon become one of the contributing local bodies under subsection one of this section.”