12 GEO V 1921 No 64 Waikato and King-Country Counties
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604 1~21, No. 64.J Waikato and King-country Oounties. [12 GEO. V. New Zealand. Title. ANALYSIS. 1. Short Title and commencement. 10. Boundaries of Raglan County altered. 2. Act deemed to be a special Act. 11. Boundaries of Waikato County altered. 3. Otorohanga County constituted. 12. Boundaries of Piako County altered. 4. Taumarunui County constituted. 13. Boundaries of Waipa County altered. 5. Application of Counties Act, 1920. 14. Taupo East and Taupo West Counties united. 6. Awakino and Waitomo Counties abolished, and 15. Road districts abolished. Waitomo County constituted. 16. Taupo Road District constituted. 7. Antecedent liabilities of Awakino and Wal 17. Application of provisions of Counties Act, 1920, tomo County C,ouncils to be antecedent in respect of alterations of boundaries. liability of new Waitomo County. 18. Temporary provision for control of certain 8. System ,of rating in Waitomo County. districts. 9. Boundaries of Kawhia County altered. Schedules. 1921-22, No. 64 . Title .AN ACT to give Effect to the Report of the Commission appointed under Section Ninety-one of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1920. [11th February, 1922. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :- Short Title and 1. This Act may be cited as the Waikato and King-country commencement. Counties Act, 1921-22, and shall come into operation on the :o/st day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-two. Act deemed to be a 2. This Act shall be deemed to be a special Act within the special Act. meaning of the Counties Act, 1920. Otorohanga. County 3. The Otorohanga County is hereby constituted, and shall com constituted. prise all that area, being portions of the West Taupo and Waitomo Counties, particularly described in the First Schedule hereto. Taumarunui County 4. The Taumarunui County is hereby constituted, and shall constituted. comprise all that area, being portion of the West Taupo County, particularly described in the Second Schedule hereto. Application of 5. The Counties Act, 1920, shall be in full force in the counties Counties Act, 1920. of Otorohanga and Ta\1marunui. Awakino and 6. (1.) The counties of Waitomo and Awakino are hereby abolished, Waitomo Counties and the respective County Councils thereof are hereby dissolved. abolished, and Waitomo County i' , (2.) The area described in the Third Schedule hereto is hereby constituted. constituted a new county, to be known as the Waitomo County. 12 GEO. V.] Waikato and King-country Counties. [1921, No. 64 605 (3.) The provisions of subsections two and three of section ten of the Counties Act, 1920, shall, with the necessary modifications, apply to the said new county in all respects as if the counties of Waitomo and Awakino hereby abolished had been united under the said section ten to fOl'm the said new county. (4.) Sections thirteen and sixteen of the Counties Act, 1920, shall apply as between the Council of the Waitomo County hereinhefore constituted and the Council of any county within the boundaries of which are included any lands heretofore forming part of either of the counties of Waitomo or Awakino hereinbefore abolished in the same manner as if such lands had formed part of the said Waitomo County. 7. (1.) Subject to any adjustment of assets and habllitles Antecedent lia.bilities of pursuant to this Act, the antecedent liabihties within the meaning Awaklllo and of the Local Bodies' Finance Act, 1921-22, of the Awakino County Waitomo County Cutlllclis to be CounCIl and of the Waitomo County Council, respectively, shall be a.ntenedent deemed to be the antecedent liabllity of the Council of the Waitollio liabihty of new County constituted by this Act. Waitomo County. (2.) Any rate made and levied by the new Waitomo County Council for the purposes of the Local Bodies' Finance Act, 1921-22, as secunty for a loan to extinguish, in whole or in part, its ante- cedent liability under that Act, or for the purpose of provllling any annual instalment payable under that Act in reduction or extinction of its antecedent babllity, shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in that Act, be made separately in respect of the portion of its antecedent liability that was the antecedent liability of the Awakino County Council and in respect of the portion of Its ante- cedent liability that was the antecedent liability of the old Waitomo County Oouncil, and shall be levied accordingly only over the area origmally comprised in the Awakino Oounty or the old Waitomo Oounty, as the case may require. S. (1.) The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make System of "ting in such provision as he deems necessary for the taking of a poll of Waitomo County. ratepayers of the Waitomo County as hereinbefore constituted upon a proposal to determine whether the system of rating on the capital value or the system of rating on the unimproved value shall be in force in the said county. (2.) The system of rating declared to be adopted pursuant to such poll shall be in force in the Waitomo County as if the same had been adopted pursuant to the provisions of the Rating Act, 1908. 9. The boundaries of the Kawhia County are hereby altered, and BoundariOB 01 the said county shall comprise all that area described in the Fourth ~;:!"; County Schedule hereto. 10. The boundaries of the Raglan County are hereby altered, and Bound.ri.., of the said county shall comprise all that area described in the Fifth ~,:!;:~. County Schedule hereto. 11. The boundaries of the Waikato County are hereby altered, Boundari.. of and the said county shall comprise all that area described in the :r:!'d.to County Sixth Schedule hereto. 12. The boundaries of· the Piako County are hereby altered, and BoundariOB of Pi.ko the said county shall comprise all that area described in the Seventh County.ltered. Schedule hereto. 606 1921, No. 64.] Waikato and King-country Counties. [12 GEO. V. Boundaries of 13. The boundaries of the Waipa County are hereby altered, Waipa County altered. and the said county shall comprise all that area described in the Eighth Schedule hereto. Ta.upo East and 14. (1.) The counties of East Taupo and West Taupo are hereby Taupo West Counties united. abolished, and the area described in the Ninth Schedule hereto, being the area comprised in the said East Taupo County and a portion of the said West Taupo County, is hereby constituted a county, to be known as the Taupo County. (2.) The Counties Act, 1920, with the exception of section six thereof, shall not apply or be in force in the said Taupo County, and the reference in that section to the counties of West Taupo and East Taupo shall be construed as a reference to the Taupo County constituted by this Act. (3.) The reference in section twenty-seven of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1916, to the counties of East Taupo and West Taupo shall be construed as a reference to the said Taupo County. Road districts . 15. (1.) The Road Boards of the Kakepuku, Parawera, and Roto abolished. o-rangi Road Districts are hereby dissolved, and the said road districts are hereby merged in the Waipa County as defined in thel'Eighth Schedule to this Act. (2.) The Road Boards of the Mangaorongo and Wharepapa Road Districts are hereby dissolved, and the said road districts are hereby merged in the Otorohanga County as constituted by this Act: Provided that the said Road Boards shall continue to exist for the purposes of section eighteen hereof until the first elected Councillors of the Otorohanga County come into office. Taupo Road 16. (l.) The area described in the Tenth Schedule hereto, being District constituted. portion of the Taupo County, is hereby constituted a road district, to be known as the Taupo Road District. (2.) The Board of the said district shall consist of five members. (3.) The provisions of subsections four, five, and six of section twenty-seven of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1916, and section one hundred and twenty two of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1917, shall apply to the Taupo Road District as if the said road district had been constituted under such first-mentioned section. Application of 17. Except as hereinbefore otherwise specially provided, the provisions of 1920, Counties Act, 1920, provisions of the Counties Act, shall apply in respect of the in respect of alterations of boundaries of any counties or the merger of any road alterations of boundaries. districts made or effected by this Act in the same manner in all respects as if such alterations or merger had been made or effected under that Act: Provided that where, consequent upon the alteration of boundaries of any county, any area is declared by the Governor - General by Proclamation under section twenty-one of the Counties Act, 1920, to be included in any existing riding of such county, it shall not be necessary for an election of Councillors to be held for such riding pursuant to paragraph (0) of section sixty-nine of that Act. Temporary 18. Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing~rovisions of this provision for oontrol of certa.in districts. Act or in any other Act, the local authority which immediately before 12 GEO. V.) Waikato and King-country Oounties. [1921, No. 64. 607 the coming into operation of this Act exercised jurisdiction over the area or any part thereof, as the case may be, comprised in each of the Otorohanga and Taumarunui Counties hereinbefore constituted, and in each of the Mangaorongo and Wharepapa Road Districts hereinbefore merged in the said.ptorohanga County, shall continue to exercise such ili4 jurisdiction duringilthel.1lperiod~oetween the coming into operation of this Act and the'date...