This Act may be cited as the Water-supply Act Amendment Act, 1907, and shall form part of and be read together with the Water-supply Act, 1891 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

The Governor may from time to time by Proclamation extend the boundaries of any water-supply district proclaimed under Part II of the principal Act by adding thereto any road district or defined part of a road district adjoining the water-supply district:

Provided that no such Proclamation shall be made except on the petition of a majority of the ratepayers within the area proposed to be so added, nor unless the Water-supply Board, within two months after notice of such petition, signifies to the Governor in Council by resolution its assent to the prayer of such petition.

The Governor, by the same or any subsequent Proclamation, may determine, in accordance with the prayer of the said petition, how many additional members (if any) of the Water-supply Board shall be elected to represent the road district or part of a road district so added to the water-supply district, notwithstanding the fact that the total number of members of the said Board may thereby exceed the maximum number permitted by section fifty-eight of the principal Act.

For the purpose of the first election of any such additional member or members, the Governor may exercise the powers conferred upon him by section fifty-eight of the principal Act in the case of the first election of a Water-supply Board.

When any part of a road is vested in the corporation of a county as a water-race by virtue of the principal Act or its amendments, or any other Act, but is not for the time being used by the County Council for the purposes of a water-race, the fact that such part of the road is so vested in the corporation of the county shall not take away or affect the control and jurisdiction of the Road Board or of any other local authority over that part of the road, or the duty of the Road Board or other local authority to construct and maintain the same as a road.

Section thirty-nine of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “not exceeding one-tenth.”