This Act may be cited as the Taranaki Harbours Act 1965.

This Act shall come into force on 1 September 1965.

This Act shall be deemed to be a special Act within the meaning of the Harbours Act 1950.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

There is hereby constituted a Harbour Board to be known as the Taranaki Harbours Board.

The Board shall have control over the harbours that immediately before the commencement of this Act were under the control of the Taranaki Harbour Board or the Patea Harbour Board.

The Taranaki Harbour Board and the Patea Harbour Board are hereby dissolved.

The area described in Schedule 1 is hereby constituted a district, to be called the Taranaki Harbours District.

The Taranaki Harbour District (as described in Schedule 4 of the Taranaki Harbour Board Act 1954) and the Patea Harbour District (as constituted by section 4 of the Patea Harbour Board Act 1885 and amended by sections 4 and 5 of the Patea Harbour Act 1913) are hereby abolished.

Subject to the provisions of this Act, on the commencement of this Act all the real and personal property, contracts, rights of action and other rights, obligations, and liabilities of the Taranaki Harbour Board or of the Patea Harbour Board shall become property, contracts, rights, obligations, and liabilities of the Taranaki Harbours Board constituted by this Act, without the necessity of any instrument of transfer, assignment, or other assurance.

Notwithstanding anything in any other Act, where any real or personal property or right becomes vested in the Board by virtue of this section and the title of either of the dissolved Boards is or should have been entered in any register required by law to be kept, the Registrar or other person whose duty it is to keep that register shall, on the request in writing of the Taranaki Harbours Board, and on being satisfied by statutory declaration or otherwise of the title of the dissolved Board, without payment of any fee, enter in the register the name of the Taranaki Harbours Board as the owner of that property or right instead of the Taranaki Harbour Board or the Patea Harbour Board, as the case may be.

All stock, debentures, or other securities issued or executed before the commencement of this Act as security for the repayment of any loan which immediately before the commencement of this Act constituted a liability of the Taranaki Harbour Board shall be deemed to have been issued or executed by the Taranaki Harbours Board, but nothing in this Act shall affect or prejudice the rights of the holders of any such stock, debentures, or other securities.

Notwithstanding anything in this Act, no rateable property situated in any part of the district that immediately before the commencement of this Act did not form part of the Taranaki Harbour District (as constituted immediately before the commencement of this Act)—

Subject to the provisions of subsection (2), the provisions of sections 6 and 7 of the Taranaki Harbour Board Act 1954 shall with the necessary modifications continue to apply, as if that Act had not been repealed and as if every reference in those sections to the Taranaki Harbour Board were a reference to the Taranaki Harbours Board, with respect to loans to which those sections applied immediately before the commencement of this Act and to loans raised by the Taranaki Harbours Board after the commencement of this Act for the renewal or conversion of any such first-mentioned loan or any part thereof.

Instead of levying any special rate authorised to be made to secure the payment of the annual charges in respect of any loan raised by the Board after the commencement of this Act (not being a loan raised for the renewal or conversion of any loan raised before the commencement of this Act or any part thereof), the Board shall, where necessary, make a levy in accordance with this section on every local authority whose district or part thereof forms part of the Taranaki Harbours District.

For the purpose of determining the total amount payable by way of the levy, the Board shall in each year cause an estimate to be prepared, in such manner and according to such principle as the Board approves, of—

Where the amount estimated pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection (2) is insufficient to meet in full the annual charges estimated pursuant to paragraph (a) of that subsection, the Board shall make a levy in respect of the deficiency, calculated in accordance with subsection (4), on every local authority whose district or any part thereof forms part of the Taranaki Harbours District.

The amount of the deficiency for any year shall be apportioned among the several local authorities whose district or any part thereof forms part of the Taranaki Harbours District in the proportions specified in Schedule 2.

Where the Board makes a levy under this section, it shall give notice thereof in writing to each local authority whose district or part thereof forms part of the Taranaki Harbours District specifying the amount of the levy payable by that local authority, and the local authority shall pay the amount thereof to the Board before the date specified in the notice, being not earlier than the 1 April next succeeding the giving of the notice.

Any local authority that is required to pay any levy to the Board pursuant to this section may for that purpose make and levy a separate rate on all rateable property in its district, or, as the case may be, in the part of its district that forms part of the Taranaki Harbours District, of an amount not exceeding a rate that will produce the amount of the levy payable by the local authority for that year and all reasonable costs and expenses incurred in and about making and levying, collecting, and recovering the rate.

Where, in the case of any local authority part of whose district is within the Taranaki Harbours District, any person is liable to be rated in respect of property lying partly within and partly outside the last-mentioned district, the local authority within whose jurisdiction that property is situate shall deduct from the amount of the rates that would be levied on the property if it were wholly within the last-mentioned district such part as it, in its absolute discretion, considers to be the proportion payable in respect of that part of the property lying outside the district.

All amounts received by the Board by way of levy pursuant to this section shall be applied by the Board in payment of the annual charges payable in respect of the loans in respect of which the levy was made.

For the purpose of computing the amount of any subsidy in respect of general rates payable to any local authority under any enactment, there shall be deducted from the amount of the general rates levied by it for any year all amounts paid by the local authority out of its general fund or out of any riding account in that year in payment to the Board of any levy payable under this section.

The Local Government Commission may from time to time, on the application of any local authority whose district or any part thereof forms part of the Taranaki Harbours District, review the proportions specified in Schedule 2—

For the purposes of any such review, the provisions of the Local Government Commission Act 1961, with the necessary modifications, shall apply as if the proceedings for the review were a proposal that a scheme be prepared in respect of a matter specified in subsection (1) of section 14 of that Act.

Effect may be given by Order in Council to any decision of the Commission on any such review.

All revenue of the Board for any year which is available for the servicing of loans shall be applied by the Board—

Except as provided in subsection (4) or in section 13, on the commencement of this Act all land vested in the Patea Harbour Board and all money (whether in cash or in any bank account) and investments of that Board shall vest in the Corporation of the County of Patea, without the necessity of any instrument of transfer, assignment, or other assurance.

Notwithstanding anything in any other Act, where any property becomes vested in the Corporation by virtue of this section and the title of the Patea Harbour Board is or should have been entered in any register required by law to be kept, the Registrar or other person whose duty it is to keep that register shall, on the request in writing of the Patea County Council, and on being satisfied by statutory declaration or otherwise of the title of the Patea Harbour Board, without payment of any fee, enter in the register the name of the Corporation as owner of the property instead of the Patea Harbour Board.

All such land, money, and investments and the income thereof shall be controlled by a joint special committee of the Patea County Council established under section 76 of the Counties Act 1956, and comprising 1 person appointed by the Hawera Borough Council, 1 person appointed by the Patea Borough Council, 1 person appointed by the Hawera County Council, and 1 person appointed by the Patea County Council.

All such money and the income from time to time derived from any land or investments vested in the Corporation by virtue of this section or from the investment of the proceeds of any realisation of any such land or investments shall be applied—

The area described in Schedule 4 is hereby added to the Wanganui Harbour District.

No rateable property situated in the area added to the Wanganui Harbour District by subsection (1)—

All bylaws and scales of rates and charges in force in respect of any harbour which immediately before the commencement of this Act was under the control of the Taranaki Harbour Board or the Patea Harbour Board shall continue in force after the commencement of this Act and apply in respect of that harbour as if they were bylaws made by the Taranaki Harbours Board or, as the case may be, were fixed by bylaws made by that Board, until bylaws are made by the Board in substitution therefor, and shall after the commencement of this Act be enforceable by the Board accordingly.

Subject to the provisions of this Act, all references to the Taranaki Harbour Board or the New Plymouth Harbour Board or the Patea Harbour Board or to the Taranaki Harbour District or the New Plymouth Harbour District or the Patea Harbour District in any Act, Proclamation, regulation, rule, order, bylaw, or other enactment, or in any contract, agreement, deed, instrument, register, licence, list, roll, rate book, debenture, stock certificate, notice, or other document whatsoever shall hereafter, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as references to the Taranaki Harbours Board or, as the case may require, the Taranaki Harbours District.

All proceedings pending by or against the Taranaki Harbour Board or the Patea Harbour Board immediately before the commencement of this Act may be carried on or prosecuted by or against the Taranaki Harbours Board.

The following enactments are hereby repealed: