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Land Drainage Amendment Act 1972

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Land Drainage Amendment Act 1972

Public Act		1972 No 74
Date of assent		20 October 1972

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Appeal from list. Ratepayers roll
	Administrative information

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 1972, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Land Drainage Act 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Appeal from list. Ratepayers roll

(1)

The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 8 (as amended by section 2 of the Land Drainage Amendment Act 1956), and substituting the following section:

“8

“(1)

Any person who considers himself aggrieved by reason of the insertion or incorrectness of any matter in any such list, or the omission of any matter therefrom, may object as herein provided.

“(2)

The Magistrate on the day fixed for hearing objections, shall hear and determine all objections, and may order such alterations in and additions to the list to be made as he thinks just; and his decision shall be final and without appeal.

“(3)

All such alterations and additions shall be made by the Returning Officer and initialled by the Magistrate.

“(4)

The list shall come into force—

“(a)

Immediately after all the alterations and additions have been initialled by the Magistrate; or

“(b)

If there are no alterations, or additions, on the day fixed for the hearing of objections;

and shall be the roll of ratepayers for the district until a new roll comes into force in a like manner.”

(2)

Section 5 of the Land Drainage Amendment Act 1922 is hereby amended by omitting the words “been corrected and signed by the Magistrate, as required by those sections”, and substituting the words “come into force as provided in subsection (4) of section 8 of the principal Act”.

(3)

Section 2 of the Land Drainage Amendment Act 1956 is hereby consequentially repealed.

This Act is administered in the Department of Internal Affairs.

Land Drainage Amendment Act 1972