River Boards Amendment Act 1956
River Boards Amendment Act 1956
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River Boards Amendment Act 1956
Public Act |
1956 No 8 |
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Date of assent |
10 May 1956 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the River Boards Act 1908
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 River Boards Amendment Act 1956, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the River Boards Act 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Travelling allowances
(1)
The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section sixty-six, and substituting the following section:
“66
“(1)
The Board is hereby declared to be a local authority within the meaning of the Fees and Travelling Allowances Act 1951.
“(2)
The Board may out of its funds pay to members travelling allowances and expenses in accordance with the Fees and Travelling Allowances Act 1951, and the provisions of that Act shall apply accordingly.”
(2)
Section eight of the River Boards Amendment Act 1913 is hereby repealed.
3 Contracts over £200 to be by tender
Section sixty-nine of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “twenty pounds”
, and substituting the words “two hundred pounds”
.
4 Wilful damage to river works
The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section seventy-nine, and substituting the following section:
“79
Every person who wilfully or maliciously—
“(a)
Stops or obstructs any river, stream, or watercourse that is under the jurisdiction of the Board; or
“(b)
Destroys, damages, stops, or obstructs any river works or drainage works belonging to or under the jurisdiction of the Board,—
commits an offence, and is liable on summary conviction before a Magistrate to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months or to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.”
5 Establishment of renewal and replacement funds
The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section one hundred and thirteen, the following section:
“113a
“(1)
The Board may from time to time set aside any money to form a fund or funds for the repair, renewal, replacement, or improvement of any property, plant, fixtures, or appliances of the Board, or for the purpose of purchasing additional property, plant, fixtures, or appliances of the class for which the fund or funds is or are established.
“(2)
The money so set aside and any other money payable into the fund or funds shall be paid into a separate bank account in the name of the Board.
“(3)
The Board may from time to time apply the money forming the fund or funds only to the purposes aforesaid, or any of them, and the Board, until the money is required for any of those purposes, may invest any of that money in the following manner:
“(a)
In New Zealand Government securities; or
“(b)
On deposit in any bank lawfully carrying on the business of banking in New Zealand or in the Post Office Savings Bank or in any trustee savings bank; or
“(c)
In the Common Fund of the Public Trust Office; or
“(d)
In any other securities that may from time to time be authorised by the Governor-General in Council.”
6 Classification of land for rating purposes
(1)
Section nine of the River Boards Amendment Act 1913 is hereby amended by repealing subsections two and three, and substituting the following subsections:
“(2)
For the purposes of this section the Board may from time to time appoint one or more fit persons to examine and classify all rateable property in the district into classes, according to the degree of direct or indirect benefit received or likely to be received from works carried out or to be carried out by the Board or for the maintenance of which the Board is responsible.
“(2a)
There shall be not fewer than two nor more than six classes of land named A, B, C, D, E, and F respectively, and where, in the opinion of the person or persons making the classification, any land cannot reasonably be classed as receiving or likely to receive any benefit direct or indirect from the works, that land shall be placed in another class named Class G:
“Provided that, where in the opinion of the person or persons making the classification, because of the relationship between the costs of any benefit and the valuation of the land that benefits, or for other good reason, urban land may not equitably be placed in the same class as rural land, the urban land may be placed in a higher or lower class.
“(3)
Rates shall be levied on the several classes of land (except those in Class G) in such proportion as the Board in each case appoints.”
(2)
Section ninety-five of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “and the Board shall immediately cause public notice of such classification to be given”
, and substituting the words “which list shall include a statement of the proportions in which the rates are to be imposed on the several classes of land to which the list relates; and the Board shall immediately thereafter cause public notice to be given of the classification, of the proportions in which the rates are to be imposed on the several classes of land,”
.
(3)
Section ninety-six of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “such classification”
the words “or fixing of proportions”
.
(4)
Section ninety-six of the principal Act is hereby further amended by adding the following paragraph:
“(c)
That the proportions in which the rates are proposed to be levied on the several classes do not fairly represent the varying degrees of benefit to the land in the several classes, or that the proportion of the rates imposed on any particular class or classes is too great or too small.”
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