Recommendations and estimates of District Councils

Delegation to Commissioner of Works and District Commissioner of Works

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National Roads Amendment Act 1964

Public Act		1964 No 51
Date of assent		13 November 1964

	Title
1	Short Title
2	District Roads Councils
3	Recommendations and estimates of District Councils
4	Delegation to Commissioner of Works and District Commissioner of Works
5	Allocation of estimated revenue of Fund
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the National Roads Act 1953

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 National Roads Amendment Act 1964, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the National Roads Act 1953 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 District Roads Councils

(1)

Section 7 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding to paragraph (c) of subsection (3) the following further proviso:

“Provided also that, where the number of Borough Councils and Town Councils whose districts are wholly or partly within the Roads Council district exceeds the number of County Councils and Road Boards whose districts are likewise situated, the Board may appoint such additional persons as it thinks fit to represent Borough Councils and Town Councils on the District Council:”.

(2)

Section 7 of the principal Act is hereby further amended by repealing paragraph (b) of subsection (6) (as substituted by section 3 of the National Roads Amendment Act 1957), and substituting the following paragraph:

“(b)

Not more than three members to be appointed from the persons who are members of the Council under paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) of subsection (3) of this section:

“Provided that at least one member shall be a person appointed to the Council under paragraph (c) of the said subsection (3):”.

3 Recommendations and estimates of District Councils

Section 10 of the principal Act (as amended by section 6 of the National Roads Amendment Act 1959) is hereby further amended by omitting from paragraph (c) of subsection (1) the words “subsection seven”, and substituting the words “subsection (6)”.

4 Delegation to Commissioner of Works and District Commissioner of Works

Section 16 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following words “and all or any part of the powers conferred on the Board as controlling authority of State highways by the Transport Act 1962 and any regulations made or subsisting thereunder”.

5 Allocation of estimated revenue of Fund

(1)

Section 22a of the principal Act (as inserted by section 9 of the National Roads Amendment Act 1959) is hereby amended—

(a)

By omitting from paragraph (b) of subsection (1) the word “thirty”, and substituting the words “twenty-six”:

(b)

By omitting from paragraph (c) of subsection (1) the words “fifty-one”, and substituting the words “forty-nine”.

(2)

The said section 22a is hereby further amended by inserting, after subsection (1), the following subsection:

“(1a)

Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) of this section, the Board may from time to time reduce the amounts to be allocated in accordance with those paragraphs below the minimum percentages prescribed therein to such extent as it may consider warranted by reason of any change in status or boundaries of any local authority:

“Provided that where the Board has reduced the amount to be allocated under either of the said paragraphs, the amount to be allocated under the other of the said paragraphs shall be increased to a corresponding extent.”

This Act is administered in the Ministry of Works.

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