This Act may be cited as the Dunedin Waterworks Extension Act 1930.

The Dunedin City Council (hereinafter called the Council) is hereby empowered to take, divert, impound, collect, use, convey, and appropriate for the purpose and as part of the waterworks for the time being of the said city the waters of Deep Stream, Deep Creek, and all and every the tributaries thereof, the catchment or gathering area of such streams being shown approximately on the plan marked PWD 79489, deposited in the office of the Public Works Department at Wellington.

The Council is hereby empowered from time to time upon or under any private land, reserve, road, street, or public place, to sink wells or shafts, to provide, construct, procure, or alter such reservoirs, dams, weirs, aqueducts, tanks, drains, pipes, culverts, bridges, buildings, machinery, and other works and appliances as the said Council shall think proper for the purpose of giving effect to this Act, and, in particular, may lay water-mains of such size and of such material, or construct water-races, aqueducts, or other works as the Council may think fit for the purpose of conveying water from the said catchment or gathering area to the City of Dunedin, and may with any such water-main cross and recross any railway, stream, or river, and may discharge water from any overflow pipe or other appliance into any natural watercourse along the route of such water-main, water-race, aqueduct, or other work:

Provided that before the Council shall exercise any of the powers authorized by this section the following conditions shall be complied with:—

• (a) A plan and description of any work proposed to be done shall be deposited for public inspection at some place within the city.

• (b) The Council shall give notice in writing to the occupier and owner of any private lands, and the local authority having the control of any road, street, or public place, upon which the proposed work would be situate of its intention to construct the proposed works, and shall refer in such notice to such plan and description and state where the same are open for public inspection. Such notice may be given by serving the same personally upon or by leaving the same at the last known place of business or abode of the occupier and owner or local authority respectively, and, if the place of business or abode of any occupier or owner be not known, by publishing the same twice in some newspaper circulating in the said city.

• (c) If within one month after such notice the said occupier or owner in the case of private lands or the local authority in respect of any road, street, or public place serves on the Council a written objection to the proposed work, the Council shall appoint a day for hearing such objection and shall give notice of the same to the objector.

• (d) The Council shall hold a meeting on the day so appointed, and may, after hearing any person making such objection, if present, and after considering all such objections, determine to abandon the proposed work or to proceed therewith with or without such alterations as the Council may determine.

The powers conferred by this Act are additional to those conferred by the Municipal Corporations Act 1920, and the provisions of that Act shall, so far as the same are applicable, apply to the exercise by the Council of the powers hereby conferred as if the powers hereby conferred had been conferred by that Act.