This Act may be cited as the Auckland Regional Authority Amendment Act 1978, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Auckland Regional Authority Act 1963 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Interpretation

(1)

Section 2 of the principal Act is hereby amended—

(a)

By repealing the definition of the term “elector”:

(b)

By repealing the definition of the term “limited access road” (as inserted by section 2(1) of the Auckland Regional Authority Amendment Act 1966):

(c)

By omitting from the definition of the term “regional road” the words “section 34 of this Act”, and substituting the words “the Local Government Act 1974; and includes a limited access road under that Act”:

(d)

By inserting, after the definition of the term “road”, the following definition:

“Road improvement land” means land declared to be required for regional road improvement under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1974:”.

(2)

Section 61(2)(c) of the principal Act (as substituted by section 4 of the Auckland Regional Authority Amendment Act (No. 2) 1965) is hereby amended by omitting the word “highway” in both places where it occurs, and substituting in each case the word “road”.

(3)

Section 2(1) of the Auckland Regional Authority Amendment Act 1966 is hereby consequentially repealed.

3 Repeal of spent provisions

(1)

The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing sections 5, 6, 10, 13, 14, and 33.

(2)

The following enactments are hereby consequentially repealed:

(a)

Section 5 and section 6(1) of the Auckland Regional Authority Amendment Act 1965:

(b)

Section 4(1) and section 5(2) and (3) of the Auckland Regional Authority Amendment Act (No. 2) 1970:

(c)

Sections 3 and 4 of the Auckland Regional Authority Amendment Act 1972.

4 Committees

Section 17(1) of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “by this Act”.

5 Bylaws

Section 28 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after paragraph (b), the following paragraph:

“(ba)

Prohibiting any act, matter, or thing in relation to any subject matter concerning which the Authority is empowered by this or any other Act to make bylaws:”.

6 Deposit scheme

The principal Act is hereby further amended by inserting, after section 56, the following section:

“56a

“(1)

Notwithstanding anything in section 56 of this Act or in the Local Authorities Loans Act 1956 or in any other Act, the Authority may accept money on deposit in accordance with this section in such minimum amounts and for such minimum terms as it may from time to time determine.

“(2)

All money accepted by the Authority under this section shall—

“(a)

Be separately recorded; and

“(b)

Within 1 month after an amount sufficient to attract the highest rate of interest available has been accumulated, be paid to the National Provident Fund under section 3c of the National Provident Fund Act 1950, and pending such payment shall be paid into a separate trust bank account or bank deposit (whether interest bearing or not).

“(3)

The Authority may pay interest on money accepted by it under this section at a rate not exceeding ½ percent per annum less than the rate for the time being payable by the National Provident Fund to the Authority on the payments made by the Authority to the Fund in respect of that money.

“(4)

Deposits accepted by the Authority under this section shall be deemed to be securities of the Authority for the purposes of section 56(4) of this Act.

“(5)

Deposits accepted by the Authority under this section shall be deemed to be loans raised by the Authority for the purposes of section 57(1) of this Act.”

7 Promotion of passenger services

Section 45 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:

“(10)

For the purpose of stimulating or developing the traffic or patronage of any public passenger transport service which the Authority operates or proposes to operate, the Authority may conduct such promotional campaigns and activities as it may from time to time think fit, subject to the provisions of any enactment applying to any such campaign or activity.”

Auckland Regional Authority Amendment Act 1978