This Act may be cited as the Dunedin District Drainage and Sewerage Amendment Act, 1916. It shall form part of and be read together with the Dunedin District Drainage and Sewerage Act, 1900.

This Act shall come into operation on the first day of June, nineteen hundred and seventeen.

In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context,—

On and after the coming into operation of this Act the Board shall consist of the following persons, who shall be the only members of the Board:—

The members of the Board to be appointed by the Dunedin City Council and the St. Kilda Borough Council shall be appointed during the month of May, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and thereafter during the month of May following every general election of Councillors held pursuant to the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908. The members so appointed shall come into office on the first day of June next after their appointment, and shall hold office until their successors come into office.

It shall be the duty of the Town Clerks of the said Councils forthwith and from time to time to notify the Secretary of the Board in writing of the names of the persons so appointed.

The Mayor of the City of Dunedin for the time being shall be Chairman of the Board.

The election of three members of the Board fixed for the second Thursday in May, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be deemed to be cancelled, and such members of the Board as would, but for this provision, have retired on the date aforesaid shall hold office until the coming into operation of this Act.

Should a vacancy occur in any office held by the members of the Board from time to time appointed as aforesaid either by the Dunedin City Council or by the St. Kilda Borough Council (from death, resignation, or other cause), the fact of such vacancy occurring shall be notified by the Secretary of the Board to the Town Clerk of Dunedin, or of St. Kilda, as the case may be, who shall forthwith call a special meeting of the members of the said Council for the purpose of filling the vacancy, and the provision herein contained shall be deemed sufficient authority for the holding of such special meeting notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary contained in any Act of the General Assembly or in any by-law or standing orders of the said City or Borough Council. The member so appointed shall hold office only for so long as his predecessor would have held it if no such vacancy had occurred.

No differential rate shall at any time hereafter be imposed on any lands or rateable property now included in the district as defined by the principal Act in respect to sewage, storm-water, or any other matter under the Board’s jurisdiction; and section three of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, is hereby excluded from the powers of the Board or of the Corporation of the City of Dunedin in so far as they relate to sewage, storm-water, or any other matter under the Board’s jurisdiction.

The provisions of this section shall be limited in its application to the area contained in the district as defined by the principal Act, and shall not apply to any area that may hereafter be added to the district, in whatever manner or by whatever method such addition may be made.

Subject to the provisions of this Act, all the provisions of the principal Act and the Acts amending the same, and all the powers and privileges contained in those Acts, shall apply to and be vested in the Board as the same is reconstituted by this Act.

The principal Act and its amendments are hereby consequentially amended as described in the Schedule hereto.