Electric-power Boards Amendment Act 1919

Public Act		1919 No 46
Date of assent		5 November 1919

	Title
1	Short Title.
2	Members of Electric-power Boards to hold office for three years.
3	Rating-powers Boards.
4	Section 89 of principal Act amended.

An Act to amend the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Short Title.

This Act may be cited as the Electric-power Boards Amendment Act, 1919, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Members of Electric-power Boards to hold office for three years.

(1.)

Section ten of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:—

“(2.)

Subsequent elections of representatives of the several constituent districts and combined districts shall be held on the second Wednesday in November in every third year after the date of such first election.”

Consequential repeal.

(2.)

Section twelve of the principal Act is hereby repealed.

3 Rating-powers Boards.

(1.)

Any rate made and levied by the Board of any electric power district under the principal Act may be collected by that Board, and may be recovered by it by action in its own name, and the provisions of the Rating Act, 1908, as to the collection and recovery of rates shall apply accordingly.

Section 43 of principal Act amended.

(2.)

Section forty-three of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection two the word “receivable,” and substituting the word “recoverable.”

4 Section 89 of principal Act amended.

Section eighty-nine of the principal Act is hereby amended as from the commencement thereof by adding the following paragraph:—

“(c.)

Any expenses incurred in connection with and preliminary to the constitution of the district pursuant to section three hereof.”

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