This Act may be cited as the Hauraki Plains Amendment Act, 1913, and shall form part of and be read together with the Hauraki Plains Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

For the purposes of the principal Act the Minister of Finance, on being authorized so to do by the Governor in Council, may from time to time raise, on the security of and charged upon the public revenues of New Zealand, such sums of money as he thinks fit, not exceeding in the whole the sum of one hundred and forty-five thousand pounds.

The sums so raised shall, as and when raised, be paid into the Hauraki Plains Settlement Account under the principal Act, and shall bear interest at such rate, not exceeding five per centum per annum, as the Minister of Finance prescribes.

This Act shall be deemed to be an authorizing Act within the meaning of the New Zealand Loans Act, 1908, and the moneys hereby authorized to be raised shall be raised under and subject to the provisions of that Act accordingly.

The sums raised before the commencement of this Act under the authority of the principal Act or any other Act for the purposes of the principal Act shall be deemed to have been raised under this Act, and the total amount hereby authorized to be raised shall be reduced accordingly.

Sections five to seven of the principal Act shall extend and apply to all moneys raised under this Act.

Section four of the principal Act, sections eighty-four to eighty-six of the New Zealand State - guaranteed Advances Act, 1909, and section two of the Hauraki Plains Amendment Act, 1912, are hereby repealed.