This Act may be cited as the Greymouth Harbour Board (Validation of Rates) Act 1991.

The said special resolutions of the Board dated the 19th day of March 1984 and the 4th day of June 1985 and confirmed on the 4th day of April 1984 and the 15th day of July 1985, respectively, are hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully passed, notwithstanding that the special resolutions were not passed pursuant to section 123 and section 124 of the Harbours Act 1950; and these resolutions shall be deemed to be the resolutions set out in the First and Second Schedules to this Act, respectively.

Notwithstanding anything in section 2 of this Act or in the resolutions to which that section applies, the said resolutions shall be deemed not to apply, and never to have applied, in respect of any part of the districts over which the former Inangahua County Council and the former Westland County Council had jurisdiction on the 31st day of October 1989.

The actions of—

All money received by—

All money received by the Grey District Council (as the successor to the Greymouth Harbour Board) from the Buller District Council or the Westland District Council in payment of the said rates is hereby declared to have been lawfully paid to and received by it.

Such part of the said rates, including any penalty on any unpaid part of the said rates, as has not yet been paid to any Council referred to in subsection (2) of this section is hereby declared to be lawfully payable to, and capable of being collected by—

All money received by the Buller District Council or the Westland District Council in accordance with subsection (4) of this section shall as soon as practicable be paid to the Grey District Council (as the successor to the Greymouth Harbour Board).

If in any financial year or transitional quarter ending on or before the 30th day of June 1991 the Greymouth Harbour Board or the Grey District Council (as the successor to the Greymouth Harbour Board) failed to comply with section 3(3) of the Greymouth Harbour Board Amendment Act 1920, that failure is hereby validated and declared to have been lawful.

Section 3(3) of the Greymouth Harbour Board Amendment Act 1920 shall be deemed not to have applied in respect of any financial year or transitional quarter to which subsection (1) of this section applies.