Control of capital expenditure by harbour boards

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New Zealand Ports Authority Amendment Act 1970

Public Act		1970 No 95
Date of assent		27 November 1970

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Functions of Authority
3	Control of capital expenditure by harbour boards
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the New Zealand Ports Authority Act 1968

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 New Zealand Ports Authority Amendment Act 1970, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the New Zealand Ports Authority Act 1968 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Functions of Authority

Section 11 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding to subsection (2) the following paragraph:

“(k)

When requested by the Minister, to review, and make recommendations to him on, the representation on harbour boards of areas or districts for the purposes of the election of members of boards under the Harbours Act 1950.”

3 Control of capital expenditure by harbour boards

Section 13 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection (4), the following subsection:

“(4a)

Where before the commencement of this Act power has been given by any special Act to a harbour board to expend any money borrowed or to be borrowed by the board in the undertaking of any harbour works specified in the special Act, the board may apply to the Authority for its consent to the application of the whole or any part of any money borrowed or to be borrowed under the authority of the special Act in or towards the undertaking of all or any of the following, namely:

“(a)

Any other harbour works specified in the special Act:

“(b)

Any variation or extension of any harbour works so specified:

“(c)

Any harbour works other than those so specified. “The succeeding provisions of this section shall apply with respect to any such application.”

This Act is administered in the Marine Department.

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