Finance Act 1953
Finance Act 1953
Finance Act 1953
Finance Act 1953
Public Act |
1953 No 9 |
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Date of assent |
30 April 1953 |
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Contents
An Act to make provision with respect to public finance and other matters.
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 Finance Act 1953.
2 Authorization of railways.
(1)
The Governor-General may from time to time, in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, undertake or enter into contracts for the construction of the railways mentioned in the Schedule to this Act to the extent specified in that Schedule.
(2)
The cost of constructing those railways shall be paid out of moneys to be appropriated for that purpose by Parliament.
(3)
This section shall be deemed to be a special Act (authorizing the construction of those railways to the extent specified in the Schedule to this Act) within the meaning and for the purposes of the Public Works Act 1928, which Act, so far as applicable, is hereby incorporated with this section.
3 Government Fire Insurance Fund abolished.
Ibid., pp. 61,507 1950, No. 93
(1)
The following enactments are hereby repealed:
(a)
Section one hundred and thirty-three of the Public Revenues Act 1926:
(b)
Section seventeen of the Finance Act 1929:
(c)
Section sixteen of the Finance Act 1950.
(2)
All moneys held by the Public Trustee pursuant to the said section one hundred and thirty-three of the Public Revenues Act 1926 shall without further appropriation than this section be paid into the Public Account and credited to the Consolidated Fund and the Land Settlement Account in such proportions as the Minister of Finance determines.
4 Validating general increase of salaries of Government servants.
(1)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section nineteen of the Public Service Act 1912 or in any other enactment, and without limiting any other powers in that behalf, it is hereby declared that there may be paid from moneys appropriated by Parliament for the payment of salaries and of allowances in the nature of salary to persons employed by the Crown, amounts by way of increase of salary from the thirty-first day of August, nineteen hundred and fifty-two which shall not exceed in any case the rate of thirty pounds a year.
(2)
This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of September, nineteen hundred and fifty-two.
5 Salaries payable to principal officers and staff of the Law Drafting Office.
Ibid., Vol. VIII, p. 589
Section seven of the Statutes Drafting and Compilation Act 1920 is hereby repealed.
6 Exempting from gift duty donations made to Flood Relief Funds for the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
No gift duty shall be payable or be deemed ever to have been payable on a gift of any property made to any fund established and to be used for the relief of distress caused by the disastrous floods which occurred in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands in January and February in the year nineteen hundred and fifty-three.
7 Validating expenditure by local authorities in celebration of Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second.
It shall be lawful and be deemed to have been lawful for any local authority or public body to expend moneys out of its general fund or account, not later than the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, in the celebration of the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second.
8 Demolition notices under the Housing Improvement Act 1945.
1945, No. 17 1951, No. 81
(1)
Section five of the Housing Improvement Act 1945, as amended by section thirteen of the Statutes Amendment Act 1951, is hereby further amended—
(a)
By omitting from subsection one the words “(being not less than one month after the service of the notice)”
, and substituting the words “from the date of the service of the notice or from the happening of any specified subsequent event (which time shall in neither case be less than one month)”
:
(b)
By repealing the proviso to paragraph (b) of subsection one, and substituting the following proviso:
“Provided that the local authority shall not by the notice require any house in which any person resides at the time of the service of the notice to be pulled down so long as any such person continues without intermission to make the house his residence, unless the local authority is satisfied that suitable alternative accommodation will be available for every such person at the time when he leaves the house.”
(2)
Section thirteen of the Statutes Amendment Act 1951 is hereby amended by repealing subsection one.
Schedule Railways Authorized
| Name of Railway. | Extent Authorized. |
|---|---|
| Awakaponga-Kawerau | A branch line leaving the East Coast Main Trunk Railway at a point about 23 chains south-east of the right bank of the Tarawera River in Block II, Rangitaiki Upper Survey District, and proceeding to a point near the southern boundary of Section 2d 4, Allotment 59b, Matata Parish, in Block XIII, Rangitaiki Upper Survey District, a distance of about 10 miles 20 chains. |
| Kawerau - Te Teko | A branch line leaving the Awakaponga-Kawerau Railway at a point in Section 5, Block IX, Rangitaiki Upper Survey District, to connect with the Edgecumbe-Murupara Railway at a point in Section 116, Block X, Rangitaiki Upper Survey District, a distance of about 3 miles. |