The Short Title of this Act is “The Gisborne Harbour Board Empowering Act, 1896.”

This Act shall be deemed to be a special Act within the meaning of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” which Act is hereby incorporated in this Act.

In this Act, the expression—

Notwithstanding anything in the said Acts or in any of them contained to the contrary, it shall be lawful for the Public Trustee, and be is hereby authorised and directed, to pay to the Board out of the unexpended balance of fifty-nine thousand one hundred and sixty-six pounds of loan-money, with the accrued interest thereon, now vested in him under the provisions of the said Acts, the sum of fifteen thousand pounds: Provided that the said sum of fifteen thousand pounds shall be deemed to be in addition to the sum of forty thousand pounds provision for which is made in clause five of “The Gisborne Harbour Board Act 1884 Amendment Act, 1887,” and that charges for interest and sinking fund thereon shall be chargeable as therein provided against the special district constituted under that Act.

It shall be lawful, and the Board is hereby authorised and empowered, subject to the previous approval by the Governor of the works proposed to be constructed, to expend the sum of ten thousand pounds, part of the said sum of fifteen thousand pounds, in repairing and keeping in proper repair the harbour-works already constructed by the Board under the provisions of the said Acts.

It shall be lawful, and the Board is hereby further empowered and authorised, to expend the balance of the said sum of fifteen thousand pounds—namely, the sum of five thousand pounds—in repairing and extending towards the sea the western groin of the said works heretofore duly authorised to be constructed.

The said sum of fifteen thousand pounds shall be paid by the Public Trustee to the Board in such amounts as the Board may from time to time require.