Instead of making and levying any rates that it is empowered to make and levy under this Act or any other enactment as uniform rates over the district as a whole, or, as the case may be, over any ward as a whole or over any special rating area as a whole, the Council may, pursuant to a special order, decide to adopt a system of rating on a differential basis so that—

The following provisions shall apply with respect to every special order under subsection (1) of this section:

Where under this section the Council decides to make and levy on a differential basis any specified rate or rates but not all rates, or all rates with the exception of any specified rates, in the district or in any ward or special rating area, then, unless the context otherwise requires, sections 92b to 92g of this Act shall have effect only in relation to the rate or rates to be made and levied on a differential basis.

In this section and in sections 92b to 92g of this Act the term ‘ward’ includes any division of the district constituted for financial purposes; and also includes any community constituted under the Local Government Act 1974.

Nothing in this section or in sections 92b to 92g of this Act shall apply with respect to any uniform charge on rateable property made and levied by the Council, notwithstanding that by any other provision of this Act or by any other Act the charge is deemed to be a rate, or that the Council has resolved to make and levy the charge as a rate.

The Council may, by special order, alter the basis or bases on which differential rating is applied in the district or in any ward or special rating area, as the case may be, and section 92a(2) of this Act shall, with the necessary modifications, apply in respect of every such alteration as if the resolution to make the special order were a resolution passed under that section:

“Provided that no subsequent such alteration of the basis or bases shall be made so as to come into effect before—

whichever is the earlier.

The Council may, by special order, declare that differential rating applying in the district or in any ward or special rating area shall be revoked.

Every resolution to which this section applies shall specify the date on which differential rating shall be revoked, which shall be a day not earlier than the 1st day of April preceding the date fixed for the confirmation of the resolution and not later than 12 months after that 1st day of April.

Notwithstanding anything in section 77 of this Act, a confirming resolution making a special order under section 92a or section 92b or section 92c of this Act may modify the resolution to make that order to such extent as the Council considers necessary by reason of any representations made to it before the date of the meeting at which the resolution to make that order is confirmed.

The Town Clerk shall forthwith give notice in writing to the Valuer-General of every decision made by the Council pursuant to any of the provisions of sections 92a to 92c of this Act.

So long as differential rating continues in force in the district or, as the case may be, in any ward or special rating area pursuant to section 92a of this Act, the Council, instead of making and levying the rate or rates uniformly over the district as a whole, or, as the case may be, over that ward as a whole or that special rating area as a whole, shall make and levy the rate or rates on the basis or bases determined pursuant to that section of such differential amounts in the dollar as the Council by resolution fixes and determines from year to year.

In any such case, subject to subsection (3) of this section, the maximum of that rate or those rates specified in this Act or any other Act or, in the case of a special rate or special rates, the amount or amounts in the dollar calculated to yield 10 percent more than the annual charges payable in respect of the loan or loans secured by that special rate or those special rates, may be exceeded in respect of any one or more specified types or groups of property or, as the case may be, of property in any one or more specified zones:

“Provided that the total amount that would be produced from that rate or those rates in the district or in any ward or special rating area made and levied on a differential basis shall not exceed the total amount that would be produced if the maximum of that rate or those rates specified in this Act or any other Act, or, in the case of any special rate or rates, the amount in the dollar calculated to yield 10 percent more than the annual charges payable in respect of the loan or loans secured by that special rate or those special rates, were made and levied on a uniform basis on all rateable property in that district or ward or special rating area.

In any district or ward or special rating area in which any rate is levied on a differential basis, the total amount that may be produced by a rate made and levied on all separately rateable property that is—

shall not exceed the total amount that would be produced if the maximum of the rate specified in this Act or any other Act or the amount in the dollar calculated to yield 10 percent more than the annual charges payable in respect of any loans secured by a special rate were made and levied on a uniform basis on—

as the case may be.

The proceeds of any differential rate made and levied by the Council pursuant to section 92a of this Act shall be applied by the Council as if it were a rate made and levied over the district as a whole or, as the case may be, over the ward as a whole or the special rating area as a whole.”

The Minister of Finance may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, fix the rate of interest payable in respect of money owing to the Council pursuant to section 224(6) or section 370(1) of this Act or under an agreement entered into pursuant to section 229(2), section 273(5), section 285(3), or section 369a(3) of this Act:

“Provided that until that rate of interest is first fixed by the Minister of Finance pursuant to this section the rate of interest for the purpose of the provisions of this Act referred to in this section shall in each case be 7.5 percent per annum.”

The Council may graze livestock on land vested in it or under its control, other than scenic or historic reserves under the Reserves and Domains Act 1953, and for that purpose shall have power to incur expenditure, to purchase livestock, and to sell any such livestock or the progeny of such livestock and the produce thereof.

The Council shall keep a separate account in connection with the grazing of livestock under this section, to which shall be credited all money received in connection with the sale of any such livestock and the produce thereof and to which shall be debited all expenditure properly chargeable against the account.”

The Board or the Court, as the case may be, shall not confirm the decision of the Council unless satisfied that adequate access to the lands in the vicinity of the street is left or provided.”