This Act may be cited as the Chatham Islands County Council Empowering Amendment Act 1963, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Chatham Islands County Council Empowering Act 1936.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other Act, the financial year of the Council which commenced on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and sixty-three, shall end with the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and sixty-three, and thereafter the term “financial year”, in relation to the Council, shall mean the period of twelve months ending with the thirty-first day of December:

Provided that for the purposes of the National Roads Act 1953 the term “financial year”, in relation to the Council, means a period of twelve months ending with the thirty-first day of March.