This Act may be cited as the Bay of Plenty Harbour Board Act 1970.

The Tauranga Harbour Board shall hereafter be called the Bay of Plenty Harbour Board, and the Tauranga Harbour District, as constituted by section 4 of the Tauranga Harbour Amendment and Foreshore Vesting Act 1917 (as substituted by section 4 of the Tauranga Harbour Board Loan and Empowering Act 1956) and defined by the Tauranga Harbour Board Order 1966, shall hereafter be called the Bay of Plenty Harbour District.

The Bay of Plenty Harbour Board is hereby declared for all purposes to be the same body corporate as the Tauranga Harbour Board existing immediately before the commencement of this Act.

The First Schedule to the Harbours Act 1950 is hereby amended by omitting from the first column the words “Tauranga Harbour Board”, and substituting the words “Bay of Plenty Harbour Board”.

Section 4 of the Trustee Act 1956 (as amended by section 2 of the Trustee Amendment Act 1969) is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (d) of subsection (1) the words “the Tauranga Harbour Board”, and substituting the words “the Bay of Plenty Harbour Board”.

All other references to the Tauranga Harbour Board or to the Tauranga Harbour District in any Act, Proclamation, regulation, rule, bylaw, order, or other enactment, or in any contract, agreement, deed, instrument, title, licence, register, list, roll, rate book, or other document whatsoever, shall, unless the context otherwise requires, hereafter be read as references to the Bay of Plenty Harbour Board, or, as the case may require, the Bay of Plenty Harbour District.

Where the name of the Tauranga Harbour Board is entered in any register required by law to be kept, the Registrar or other person whose duty it is to keep that register may by virtue of this Act, and shall on the request in writing of the Bay of Plenty Harbour Board and on the registration of such documents as the Registrar or other person may require, make such entries in the register and generally do all such other things as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this section.

The presentation to any such Registrar or other person of any instrument,—

shall be sufficient evidence of the vesting of the property concerned and of the Board’s authority to execute the instrument.