This Act may be cited as the Waimakariri Harbour District and Empowering Amendment Act, 1924, and it shall form part of and be read together with the Waimakariri Harbour District and Empowering Act, 1916 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

This Act shall be deemed a special Act within the meaning of the Harbours Act, 1923.

Section four of the principal Act is hereby amended by deleting the words “area described in the Schedule hereto,” and substituting the words “Borough of Kaiapoi” in lieu thereof.

The number of members of the Waimakariri Harbour Board shall be seven, of whom two shall be non-elective members appointed from time to time by the Governor-General, and the remaining five shall be elected by the electors of the Borough of Kaiapoi.

Until such other members shall be appointed or elected the present members of the Board shall continue to hold office.

The first elective members of the Board shall come into office on the day of their election, which shall be held on such day as the Governor-General by Order in Council appoints, and the Governor-General, by the same or any subsequent Order in Council, may make such provision and generally do all things necessary for the carrying-out of such election.

The corporate entity or capacity of the Board shall not be affected by such alterations as aforesaid.

The reference to the Waimakariri Harbour Board in the First Schedule to the Harbours Act, 1923, is hereby repealed.

The local authorities exercising control over the constituent parts of the district described in the Schedule hereto shall in manner hereinafter set out pay to the said Board, immediately upon the coming into operation of this Act, or so soon thereafter as the Board shall have made demand upon the said local authorities, the undermentioned moneys:—

A certificate under the seal of the said Board shall be sufficient evidence of the amount of such moneys to be paid as aforesaid.

Such moneys shall be paid by the said local authorities in the same proportions as the capital value of the constituent part of the district over which each local authority exercises control bears to the capital value of the whole district:

Provided, however, that in apportioning the payment of such moneys the Kaiapoi Borough Council shall not be called upon to pay any part of the sum made payable by paragraph (c) of subsection one of this section.

The said local authorities are hereby authorized to make the aforesaid payments, and the Board is hereby authorized to defray the various items of expenditure hereinbefore mentioned.

Subsections three to five inclusive of section eight of the principal Act are hereby repealed.

The Waimakariri Harbour District and Empowering Amendment Act, 1920, is hereby repealed.

The amount authorized to be borrowed by section six of the principal Act shall not exceed the sum of fifteen thousand pounds, and that section is hereby amended accordingly.