This Act may be cited as the Engineers Registration Amendment Act 1972, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Engineers Registration Act 1924.

Section 8 of the Engineers Registration Amendment Act 1944 (as amended by section 2 of the Engineers Registration Amendment Act 1966 and section 7 of the Decimal Currency Act 1964) is hereby amended by omitting from the first proviso to subsection (2) the expression “$80,000”, and substituting the words “such amount as, by notice in the Gazette, the Minister of Works may from time to time determine after consultation with the Municipal Association of New Zealand Incorporated and the New Zealand Counties Association Incorporated”.

Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, the amount that may be expended by a local authority in any year on the construction and maintenance of its works before subsection (2) of section 8 of the Engineers Registration Amendment Act 1944 applies shall continue to be $80,000 until a different amount is determined under that subsection (as amended by subsection (1) of this section).

The Engineers Registration Amendment Act 1966 is hereby consequentially repealed.