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

Section four of the principal Act is hereby amended as follows:—

Section three of the Fire Brigades Amendment Act, 1908, is hereby repealed.

Section twenty of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection three, the following subsection:—

The said section is hereby further amended by omitting from subsection six thereof the word “preliminary.”

This section shall be deemed to have been in force since the commencement of the principal Act.

In the case of a Fire Board first constituted after the coming into operation of the principal Act, the Board shall be empowered to incur such expenditure and to borrow such moneys as the Minister may from time to time authorize in writing during the period after its constitution and until the first day of July next after its constitution.

Section twenty-two of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the following paragraphs:—

Subsection four of section six of the Fire Brigades Amendment Act, 1908, is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “exceeds at any time,” the words “in the case of the Fire Board for any of the Cities of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin respectively the sum of twenty thousand pounds, and in the case of any other Fire Board.”

Section fifty-one of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the following new subsections:—