[As REPORTED FROM THE LOCAL BILLS COMMITTEE] House of Representatives, 6 October 1966 Words struck out by the Local Bills Committee are shown in italics within bold round brackets; words inserted are shown in roman underlined with a double rule, or with double rule before first line and after last line. Mr Tizard SOUTH AUCKLAND LOCAL AUTHORITIES EMPOWERING [LocAL] ANALYSIS Title 3. Authority to establish bus depots Preamble 4. Authority to lease bus depots 1. Short Title | 5. Authority to borrow money 2. Interpretation 6. Costs of p.romoting Act A BILL INTITULED An Act to authorise the Manukau City Council (, the Mount Wellington Borough Council, the Otahuhu Borough Coun- cil, and the Papatoetoe City Council) to establish and lease 5 (bus depots and) a bus depot and to borrow money for the acquisition and establishment thereof, and to authorise the Manukau City Council, the Mount Wellington Borough Council, the Otahuhu Borough Council and the Papatotoe City Council to meet the cost thereof 10 WHEREAS it is desirable and expedient that the Manukau City Council, (the Mount Wellington Borough Council, the Otahuhu Borough Council, and the Papatoetoe City Council) be authorised to establish (bus depots) a bus depot and to lease the same to passenger transport service operators and to 15 borrow money for the acquisition and establishment of (bus depots) a bus depot: And whereas it is desirable and expedient that the Manukau City Council, the Mount Wellington Borough Council, the Otahuhu Borough Council and the Papatoetoe City Council be authorised to meet the cost of 20 acquiring and establishing such bus depot: And whereas doubts have arisen whether the said Councils have power to do so a't present: No. 80-2 Price 6d. 2 South Auckland Local Authorities Empowenng BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. Short Title-This Act may be cited as the South Auck- land Local Authorities Empowering Act 1966. 5 2. Interpretation-In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- "Bus depot" includes lands and premises where passenger transport service vehicles may be garaged, serviced, repaired, and overhauled and staff and administration 10 facilities and offices for passenger transport services provided: Neu) ' "Contributing authorities" means the Manukau City Council, the Papatoetoe City Council, the Mount 15 Wellington Borough Council and the Otahuhu Borough Council and where necessary includes the corporations of the Cities of Marrakau and Papatoetoe and of the Boroughs of Mount Wellington and Ota- huhu. 20 11 U "Council(s)" means the Manukau City Council, (the Mount Wellington Borough Council, the Otahuhu Borough Council, and the Papatoetoe City Council) and where necessary includes the corporation(s) of the (cities) city of Manukau. (and Pat)atoetoe and 25 of the boroughs of Mount Wellington and Otahuhu) 3. Authority to establish a bus depot(s)-The Council(s) may (from time to time) establish (bus depots) a bus depot within the City of Manukau and for that purpose may pur- chase, (or lease upon and) subject to such terms and 30 conditions as (they think) it thinks fit any area or areas of land or buildings anti may erect such buildings and carry out and execute such works and provide such facilities as (they think) it thinks fi[t. 4. Authority to lease a bus depot(s)-Notwithstanding any- 35 thing contained in any Act the Councils may lease (any bus depots) the bus depot established under the authority con- tained in this Act to any passenger transport service operator or operators upon and subject to such terms and condtions as (they think) it thinks fit; and may accept surrenders, grant 40 renewals, and consent to assignments of any such lease as (they think) it thinks fit. South Auckland Local Authorities Empowering 5 New 4A. Application of Public Bodies' Leases Act 1908-Sections 8 and 9 of the Public Bodies' Leases Act 1908 shall not apply to any lease granted by the Council under section 4 of this Act. 11 ill'L 5 5. Authority to borrow money-Subject to the provisions of the Local Authorities Loans Act 1956, the Council(s) may (from time to time) borrow money for tile acquisition, estab- lishment, and erection, maintenance and improvement of (bus depots as Ykey think /it) the bus depot as it thinks fit., 10 New 11 11 5A. Contributing authorities to meet cost of bus depot- ( 1) The contributing authorities shall in every year whilst and so long as any principal moneys remain due and owing on any loan moneys borrowed by the Council pursuant to 15 section 5 hereof pay to the Council a proportion of the principal repayment of such loan moneys for the previous year. (2) The amounts payable under subsection (1) of this section shall be assessed and charged to the respective contri- 20 buting authorities in proportion to the mean percentage of the rateable capital value and population of their respective districts or of the portions thereof benefitted by the operation of any transport service operator to whom the bus depot in respect of which the loan has been raised is for the time being 25 leased by the Council pursuant to the powers given by section 4 of this Act. ( 3) Upon the sale or other disposal of the bus depot by the Council, the Council shall pay to each contributing authority a proportion of the net proceeds of such sale or 30 other disposition, such proportion to be the same as the proportion that the total moneys paid by each contributing authority towards the repayment of loan moneys in respect of the bus depot bears to the total amount of the loan raised for the bus depot. 1 4 35 6. Costs of promoting Act-The costs of promoting this Act, and of all matters preparatory and incidental thereto, shall be paid out of the District Funds of the cities of Manukau and Papatoetoe and the boroughs of Mount Wellington and Otahuhu. ELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND: Printed under the authority of the New Zealand Government, by R. E. OWEN, Governmervt Printer-1966.