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Land Drainage Amendment Act 1967

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Act Repealed Latest version as at 23 November 1967 (as enacted) | 1967 No 87

Land Drainage Amendment Act 1967

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Land Drainage Amendment Act 1967

Public Act
  
1967 No 87
Date of assent
  
23 November 1967
 

Contents

An Act to amend the Land Drainage 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 Land Drainage Amendment Act 1967, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Land Drainage Act 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Deputy Chairman of Board

Section 11 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection (2), and substituting the following subsections:

“(2)

The Board may from time to time, if it thinks fit, appoint one of its members to be Deputy Chairman, who, with the consent of the Chairman, or, in the event of the Chairman becoming incapable of acting or there being a vacancy in the office of Chairman, without that consent, shall, until the Chairman resumes his duties or a new Chairman comes into office, have all the authority of the Chairman.

“(2A)

Every Deputy Chairman so appointed shall, so long as he continues to be a member of the Board, hold office until the appointment of his successor.”

3 Entry on land for maintenance of drains

Section 21 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:

“(4)

This section shall not apply—

“(a)

In respect of the carrying out by the Board of urgent work to meet an emergency; or

“(b)

Where the owner of the land has entered into an agreement in writing with the Board as to the construction of the work, or where the entry on the land is for the purpose of the maintenance or repair of any existing work on the land and the Board has given to the occupier of the land notice in writing at least forty-eight hours before entering on the land.”

This Act is administered in the Department of Internal Affairs.
Act Repealed Latest version as at 23 November 1967 (as enacted)

Land Drainage Amendment Act 1967

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