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Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1987

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Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1987

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Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1987

Public Act
  
1987 No 202
Date of assent
  
18 December 1987
 

Contents

An Act to amend the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act 1941

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows:

1 Short Title and commencement

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1987, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act 1941 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(2)

This Act shall come into force on the 1st day of April 1988.

2 Extending jurisdiction of Catchment Boards

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 34, the following section:

“34a

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in—

“(a)

Any Order in Council constituting any catchment district under section 34 of this Act (as amended pursuant to or to give effect to section 19 of the Water and Soil Conservation Act 1967); or

“(b)

Any notice defining any catchment area under section 13 of this Act (as amended pursuant to or to give effect to section 19 of the Water and Soil Conservation Act 1967)—

any restrictions on the application of the provisions of this Act contained in any such Order in Council or notice shall cease to have any force or effect on and after the commencement of this section.”

3 Repealing provision for administrative rates

(1)

Section 84 of the principal Act is hereby repealed.

(2)

The following enactments are hereby consequentially repealed:

(a)

Section 15 of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1959:

(b)

Section 3 of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1963:

(c)

Section 2 of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1977.

4 Repealing provision for subsidy on administrative rates

(1)

Section 78 of the Statutes Amendment Act 1945 is hereby repealed.

(2)

Section 7 of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1962 is hereby consequentially repealed.

5 Removal of requirement for general and separate rates to be levied on a graduated scale

(1)

Section 101(1) of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “, other than an administrative rate under section 84 hereof,”.

(2)

Section 101 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection (1), the following subsection:

“(1a)

Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, any Board may determine, in respect of any rating year, that any general rate under section 85 of this Act or any separate rate under section 86 of this Act shall be made and levied on a uniform scale.”

This Act is administered in the Ministry of Works and Development.
Act Repealed Latest version as at 18 December 1987 (as enacted)

Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1987

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