The Short Title of this Act is “The Railways Authorisation and Management Act, 1891.”

The Governor may, in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, enter into a contract or contracts for the construction of extensions of, and additions to, the railways mentioned or referred to in the First Schedule to this Act.

The cost of constructing such extensions and additions shall be borne and paid out of moneys appropriated for that purpose by the General Assembly.

This Act shall be deemed to be a special Act authorising the construction of such extensions of, and additions to, the said railways within the meaning and for the purposes of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and any Act amending the same, which said Acts, so far as applicable, are hereby incorporated with this Act; and any of such extensions or additions which are wholly or partially made shall be deemed to have been made and may be finished under the authority of this Act.

The Kaihu Valley Railway hereinbefore mentioned shall be and be deemed, from the date of the purchase or acquisition thereof by Her Majesty, to have been a railway constructed under the authority of a special Act, and shall be and be deemed to have been, from the date of such purchase or acquisition as aforesaid, managed, worked, and maintained by the Minister for Public Works under and subject to the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and its amendments.

All revenues or other moneys derived from the management and working of the said railway shall be paid into the credit of the Public Works Fund, and all costs and charges of the management, working, and maintenance of the railway shall be defrayed out of such moneys as shall from time to time be appropriated for that purpose by the General Assembly.

Nothing in this Act contained shall prejudice or affect the rights or remedies of the Kaihu Valley Railway Company (Limited), or the liquidators thereof, to the rolling-stock, plant, goods, and chattels referred to in the said preamble, or to any compensation or right of action of such company or liquidators in respect of such premises or any part thereof.

The Governor in Council may declare the Kaihu Valley Rail way to be vested in the New Zealand Railway Commissioners appointed under “The Government Railways Act, 1887,” and thereupon the said railway shall vest in and be managed, worked, and maintained by such Commissioners under and subject to the provisions of the said Act, as if it had been a railway constructed by or on behalf of Her Majesty.

The wharf erected at Mount Rix, together with the land on which the same is erected, and all rights and appurtenances thereto, which is and are now vested in Her Majesty the Queen, shall hence forth be vested in the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, and shall be held, used, and maintained by them as part of the Kaipara-Waikato Railway now vested in the said Commissioners under “The Government Railways Act, 1887.”