This Act may be cited as the Wellington City and Suburban Water-supply Amendment Act, 1930, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Wellington City and Suburban Water-supply Act, 1927 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Save as provided in the next succeeding section, the principal Act shall, as from the passing of this Act, cease to apply to the boroughs of Lower Hutt and Petone and to the respective Councils thereof, and the said boroughs shall thereupon be deemed to be excluded from the suburban area, and the Councils thereof shall cease to be contributory local authorities within the meaning of that Act and be no longer entitled to the rights and benefits conferred or be subject to the obligations imposed on contributory local authorities by that Act.

The alteration of the suburban area effected by this Act shall not affect the special rate on which the loan already raised under the principal Act is secured, and the said rate shall, if hereafter levied, be leviable on the areas comprised in the boroughs of Petone and Lower Hutt as if those areas were still part of the suburban area.

For all the purposes of sections six and nine of the principal Act and for the purpose of carrying out any work which the City Council is empowered to do or construct under section ten of that Act the suburban area shall, notwithstanding anything contained in the last preceding section, be deemed to include the boroughs of Petone and Lower Hutt.

On the passing of this Act the members of the Wellington City and Suburban Water-supply Board appointed by the Lower Hutt and Petone Borough Councils respectively shall be deemed to have vacated office, and thereafter the Board shall, subject to the succeeding provisions of this section, consist of the Mayor for the time being of the City of Wellington and six other members, of whom the Eastbourne and Upper Hutt Borough Councils and the Hutt County Council shall each appoint one and the Wellington City Council shall appoint three in the manner provided by section three of the principal Act. Every member so appointed by any of such Councils shall be a member of that Council.

Within two months after the passing of this Act such one of the four members of the Board appointed by the City Council as that Council directs shall vacate office. Failing such direction, within such time the Board shall by resolution declare such one of such members, as it thinks fit, to have vacated office, and thereupon he shall cease to be a member of the Board.

Subject to the foregoing provisions of this section as to the vacation of office in certain cases, the appointed members of the Board in office on the passing of this Act shall continue in office until their successors are appointed in accordance with subsection six of section three of the principal Act.

The quorum of the Board shall after the passing of this Act be four members.

Section three of the principal Act shall hereafter be read subject to the foregoing provisions of this section.

If the Wellington City Council shall, in exercise of any power conferred by the principal Act, break up or dig into the surface of any road, street, or public place, not being within the City of Wellington, it shall do as little damage as possible, and shall as soon as possible repair and restore the surface and subsoil of such road, street, or public place, so that their condition shall be as good as before being broken up or dug into.