The Short Title of this Act is “The Wellington City Sanitation Loan Act, 1897.”

The Council of the City of Wellington may raise by way of special loan under the provisions of Part IX. of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886,” any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole thirty-three thousand pounds, to be appropriated to completing the system undertaken and partly carried out by the said Council for the drainage of the City of Wellington and of the portions of the Boroughs of Melrose and Karori deemed by virtue of “The Wellington (City) Suburbs Sanitation Act, 1893,” to be included within the boundaries of the said city for drainage purposes, and to be also appropriated to any of the purposes to which the said sum of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds was authorised to be appropriated by “The Wellington City Sanitation Loan Empowering Act, 1892,” and Part I. of “The Wellington (City) Suburbs Sanitation Act, 1893,” in like manner as if the money raised under this Act were part of the said sum of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds; and all the provisions of “The Wellington City Sanitation Loan Empowering Act, 1892,” relative to the lands authorised to be acquired and works authorised to be constructed or provided under that Act or under “The Wellington (City) Suburbs Sanitation Act, 1893,” shall extend and apply to the case of lands authorised to be acquired and works authorised to be constructed or provided under this Act.

The provisions of sections four, five, and seven of “The Wellington City Sanitation Loan Empowering Act, 1892,” shall apply respectively to the case of every poll taken and every special rate pledged under the authority of this Act. Section one hundred and eighty-two of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886,” shall accordingly not apply to any such poll.