The Short Title of this Act is “The City of Auckland Empowering Act, 1903.”

The power vested in the Council of the said City of Auckland by section three hundred and sixty-nine of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” shall, with reference to the property now known as the Auckland City Market, and having entrances from Queen, Cook, Albert, and Wellesley Streets, be hereinafter read and construed as though the words “three years” where they occur in the said section had been deleted therefrom and the words “ten years” inserted in lieu thereof.

The power vested in the City Council by section two hundred and one of the said last-mentioned Act shall, with reference to such part of the property described in the Schedule to the local Act called “The Auckland Harbour Act 1874 Amendment Act, 1883,” as is now vested in the City Council and is not now laid out or used as a public road, be read and construed as though the words “twenty-one years” where they occur in the said section had been deleted therefrom and the words “fifty years” inserted in lieu thereof.