Turangi Township Act 1964
Turangi Township Act 1964
Turangi Township Act 1964
Turangi Township Act 1964
Public Act |
1964 No 130 |
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Date of assent |
4 December 1964 |
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Contents
An Act to provide for the administration of the Township of Turangi during the construction of the Tongariro Power Development, to authorise the Taupo County Council and the Minister of Works to enter into such arrangements as they consider necessary for the development or administration of the township, and to empower the taking or acquisition of certain land under the Public Works Act 1928
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 Turangi Township Act 1964.
2 Interpretation
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
“Committee” means the Turangi Liaison Committee constituted under section 5 of this Act:
“Council” means the Taupo County Council:
“County” means the County of Taupo:
“County Clerk” means the Clerk of the Council:
“Development” means the Tongariro Power Development:
“Minister” means the Minister of Internal Affairs:
“Turangi Township”, or “township”, means the area described in the First Schedule to this Act.
3 Alteration of boundaries
The Minister may from time to time by notice in the Gazette, with the consent of the Council, alter and redefine the boundaries of the township by the inclusion therein or the exclusion therefrom of any area, and any such notice may make such amendments to the First Schedule to this Act as may be necessary to give effect to any such alteration and redefinition.
4 Township not to be constituted a borough, town district, or county town
While this Act is in force, the township shall not be constituted a borough, a town district, or a county town, and no part of the township shall be included within the boundaries of any borough, town district, or county town.
5 Turangi Liaison Committee
(1)
There shall be a Committee to be called the Turangi Liaison Committee.
(2)
The Committee shall consist of twelve members, namely,—
(a)
The Chairman of the Council:
(b)
Two members of the Council to be appointed by the Council, being members representing the riding of the county in which the township is included or, where there is only one such member, that member and a member representing any riding adjoining the riding in which the township is included:
(c)
Three persons, being electors of the county having a residential qualification in respect of an address in the township, to be appointed by the Council:
(d)
Two persons to be appointed by the Minister of Works on the nomination of a welfare association recognised by him as being representative of the persons engaged on the Development:
(e)
Two persons being officers of the Ministry of Works residing in the township to be appointed by the Minister of Works:
(f)
The engineer in charge of the Development:
(g)
The officer of the Public Service holding the office of District Electrical Engineer at Hamilton of the New Zealand Electricity Department.
(3)
Except as otherwise provided in this section, every appointed member of the Committee shall hold office for a term of three years, but may from time to time be reappointed.
(4)
The first appointed members of the Committee shall be appointed as soon as practicable after the passing of this Act, and the names of the persons appointed shall be notified to the County Clerk. Unless they sooner vacate office as provided in subsections (5) and (6) of this section, those members shall hold office until the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight.
(5)
Any appointed member of the Committee may be at any time removed from office by the Minister for disability, bankruptcy, neglect of duty, or misconduct proved to the satisfaction of the Minister, or may at any time resign his office by writing addressed to the County Clerk.
(6)
If any appointed member of the Committee dies, is removed from office, resigns, or ceases to possess any qualification necessary for his appointment to the office, his office shall become vacant, and the vacancy so created shall be filled in the manner in which the appointment to the vacant office was originally made. Every person so appointed shall hold office for the residue of the term for which his predecessor was appointed.
(7)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this section, every appointed member of the Committee, unless he sooner vacates his office otherwise than by effluxion of time, shall continue to hold office until his successor comes into office.
(8)
The powers of the Committee shall not be affected by any vacancy in its membership.
6 Deputies
In the absence from any meeting of the Committee of any member (other than an appointed member), he may authorise any other person to attend the meeting in his stead. While any person is attending a meeting under this section he shall be deemed for all purposes to be a member of the Committee. The fact that any person attends and acts as a member of the Committee at any such meeting shall be conclusive proof of his authority to do so.
7 Chairman and procedure
(1)
The Committee shall elect a Chairman from among its members at its first meeting, and thereafter in the same month in every succeeding year.
(2)
At every meeting for the election of a Chairman the County Clerk shall preside, and in any case of an equality of votes shall determine the election by lot in such manner as the Committee directs.
(3)
The Chairman shall come into office on his election, and shall hold office until the election of his successor.
(4)
The Chairman may resign his office by writing under his hand delivered to the Committee or the County Clerk; and in that case or if he ceases to be a member of the Committee his office shall become vacant, and the County Clerk shall forthwith call a meeting of the Committee, which shall elect a Chairman in his stead.
(5)
Subject to the provisions of this Act, the provisions of sections 71 and 74 and of Part VI of the Counties Act 1956 relating to committees of a County Council shall, as far as they are applicable and with the necessary modifications, apply with respect to the Committee and the members thereof as if the Committee were a committee appointed by a County Council under Part V of the Counties Act 1956.
8 Functions of Committee
The functions of the Committee shall be—
(a)
To combine the interests of the various sections of the township community so as to facilitate the eventual administration of the township by the Council:
(b)
To advise the Council and the Minister of Works on any matters relating to the administration of the township and to make recommendations on any such matters to the Council and the Minister of Works:
(c)
To advise the Council on planning in the township and to make recommendations on the planning of the countryside in the vicinity of the township:
(d)
To determine any issues relating to the administration of the township within the authority delegated to any officer of the Council or of the Public Service which may from time to time be placed by that officer before the Committee for determination.
9 Township rate
(1)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Counties Act 1956, after the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight, the general rate made and levied by the Council over the county as a whole shall not be made and levied within the township, and in lieu thereof the Council shall make and levy a township general rate.
(2)
The proceeds of the township general rate shall be paid into a separate account, to be known as the Turangi Township Account, and shall, except for the payment of the township’s share of the general administration expenses of the county, be expended within or for the benefit of the township.
(3)
The township general rate shall be made, levied, and collected in the township in the same manner as if it were a general rate made, levied, and collected by the Council over the county as a whole, and the provisions of the Counties Act 1956 relating thereto shall, with the necessary modifications, apply accordingly:
Provided that the Council may include in the estimates for the township a reasonable sum as the township’s share of the general administrative expenses of the county.
10 Agreements for development or administration of township
The Council and the Minister of Works may from time to time enter into and carry out any agreement or arrangement which they consider necessary for the development of the whole or part of the township or for the administration of the township during the construction of the Development, including, but without limiting the foregoing provisions of this section, the provision or maintenance of any roads, any drainage, sewerage, or water supply systems, or any other services for the benefit of the whole or part of the township.
11 Special power to take or acquire land under the Public Works Act 1928 for the purposes of the township
(1)
The Governor-General is hereby empowered to take or otherwise acquire as for a public work under the Public Works Act 1928 such land within those areas of the Turangi Township described in the Second Schedule to this Act as may in the opinion of the Minister of Works be required for the establishment or development of the township.
(2)
Any land that is taken or acquired pursuant to this section shall be taken or acquired in the manner prescribed by the Public Works Act 1928 for the taking or acquisition of land for water power purposes.
(3)
This Act shall be deemed to be a special Act within the meaning of section 18 of the Public Works Act 1928.
(4)
Any land taken or acquired pursuant to this section may be developed by the Minister of Works for the purpose of a permanent town to the extent considered desirable by him and any such land may be declared Crown land subject to the Land Act 1948 or may be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Act 1928.
12 Expiry of Act
This Act shall expire with the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and seventy-five.
SCHEDULES
FIRST SCHEDULE Turangi Township
Sections 2, 3
All that portion of the Taupo County containing 2,830 acres, more or less, bounded by a line commencing at a point on the left bank of the Tongariro River, being the north-eastern corner of Tokaanu B1L3, and proceeding generally south-easterly along that bank to a point in line with the northern boundary of Section 1, Block III, Pihanga Survey District; thence westerly to and along that boundary and the northern boundary of Section 3, Block III, aforesaid, to the eastern side of the No. 1 State Highway; thence northerly along that side to a point in line with the southern boundary of that part of Ohuanga North 5a as defined on S.O. Plan 20506; thence generally westerly to and along the southern and western boundaries of the part Ohuanga North 5a, aforesaid, to its westernmost corner; thence generally north-westerly along the generally south-western boundaries of the Proposed Reserves as defined on Plan T.P. 2904/A lodged in the office of the Minister of Works, Wellington, to the westernmost corner of those reserves; thence north-easterly along a right line to the southernmost corner of Section 7, Block VIII, Tokaanu Maori Township; thence generally north-easterly along the south-eastern and north-eastern boundaries of the said Section 7, to and along the north-western boundary of Tokaanu B1G3 to a point in line with the western boundary of Tokaanu B1L2B, to and along that boundary and the western and northern boundaries of Tokaanu B1L3, crossing a public road, to the point of commencement.
SECOND SCHEDULE
Section 11
Firstly, all that portion of the area described in the First Schedule to this Act and containing 1,450 acres, more or less, bounded by a line commencing in Block III, Pihanga Survey District, at the intersection of the western side of No. 1 State Highway with the southern boundary of part Ohuanga North 5a as shown on S.O. Plan 20506, being a point on the boundary of the said area, and proceeding generally north-westerly along that boundary to the south-eastern side of the roadway forming the north-western boundary of Waipapa 1l; thence north-easterly along that side to and south-easterly along the south-western side of the roadway forming the north-eastern boundary of Waipapa 1k to a point in line with the south-eastern boundary of Waipapa 1j2b; thence north-easterly to and along that boundary and its production to and north-westerly along the north-eastern side of a roadway (Hangerford Road) to the north-western boundary of Waipapa 1j6; thence generally north-easterly along that boundary and the north-western boundary of part Waipapa 1j containing 45 acres 2 roods 1 perch as shown on M.L. Plan 3598a, and its production to the eastern side of the roadway forming the western boundary of Waipapa 1a and along that side to its intersection with the south-western side of the No. 41 State Highway thence south-easterly along that side for 1400 links approximately to the north-western boundary of part Waipapa 1a (Marae) at right angles to the said side; thence south-westerly along that boundary, to the generally south-western boundary of Waipapa 1a; thence generally south-easterly along that boundary to the south-eastern boundary of part Waipapa 1a (Marae) being a line parallel to and distant approximately 1200 links south-eastward of the said north-western boundary; thence generally northerly along the said south-eastern boundary, to and along the south-western side of the No. 41 State Highway aforesaid to a point in line with the north-western boundary of Waipapa 1f3a2, to and along that boundary and its production to the right bank of the Tongariro River; thence generally south-easterly along that bank to the north-western boundary of Lot 13, D.P. 23178; thence generally south-westerly along that boundary, the north-eastern and north-western boundaries of Lot 1, D.P. 23178, the abutment and the western side of a public road to and along the northern and north-western boundaries of Lot 12, D.P. 23178, and the production of the last-mentioned boundary to the south-western side of the No. 41 State Highway; thence generally southerly along that side and the north-western side of the No. 1 State Highway to the south-western boundary of Ohuanga North 5b1c2d2a; thence north-westerly along that boundary and the south-western boundaries of Ohuanga North 5b1c2d2b1, 5b1c2d2b2, and 5b1c2d2b3 to the south-eastern boundary of Waipapa 1e2c; thence south-westerly along that boundary to and south-easterly along the north-eastern boundary of Ohuanga North 5b1a to the north-western side of the No. 1 State Highway aforesaid; thence generally southerly along that side to the point of commencement, excluding therefrom Waipapa 1g (Maori Burial Ground).
As the same is delineated on the plan marked M.O.W. 18932 and lodged in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon bordered yellow.
Secondly, all that portion of the area described in the First Schedule to this Act and containing 90 acres, more or less, bounded by a line commencing at the intersection of the northern boundary of Tokaanu B1G1 with the north-eastern boundary of Section 7, Block VIII, Tokaanu Maori Township being a point on the boundary of the said area, and proceeding north-westerly along that boundary to the southern boundary of part Tokaanu B1G3; thence generally north-easterly along that boundary, the north-eastern boundary of that subdivision to and along the south-eastern boundary of part Tokaanu B1L2A to the south-western side of a roadway; thence south-easterly along that side to and south-westerly along the south-eastern boundary of part Tokaanu B1J to the north-eastern side of the roadway forming the south-western boundary of that subdivision; thence north-westerly along that side to a point in line with the northern boundary of Tokaanu B1G1 aforesaid; thence westerly to and along that boundary to the point of commencement.
As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked M.O.W. 18932 and lodged in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon bordered blue.
This Act is administered in the Department of Internal Affairs.