New Zealand: Acts affecting Native Lands, 1886, 1888-91 and 1894-95

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous.

80.	No Judge or Justice shall, solely on account of his liabilityJudge not interested merely by being a ratepayer. to pay rates, be deemed to be interested in any case in which he is judicially concerned.
81.	If the local authority fails through misadventure or accidentOn misadventure, or Accident, or on failure by local authority, Governor in Council may extend time or validate act., or from any reason whatever, to do anything which by this Act is required to be done within a fixed time, the Governor may from time to time as occasion shall require, by Order in Council published in the Gazette and publicly notified, extend the time for doing such thing; and may, by any such order, validate anything which may have been irregularly done in matter of form, so that the intent and purpose of this Act may have effect.
82.	In the event of the severance of a portion from any districtProvision for valuation roll in event of severance of any portion of a district. under a local authority, whether for the purpose of forming another local-governing area or to join a local authority already existing, it shall be the duty of the local authority of the district of which the page 22seceding portion formed part to deliver a copy of the valuation-roll of such part so seceding to the authorities of the new district or of the district of which the seceding portion becomes part.
83.	Rates of 1s. in the pound on annual value to be equal to ¾d. in the pound on capital value. Whenever by any Act or Provincial Ordinance a limit or rating-power has been imposed upon any local authority, and in all cases of special and annually-recurring rates, or of any rates the amount of which is fixed for any definite period of time, when such rating-power or rate has reference to the annual value of rateable property, then, subject in the case of water-rates to the provisions of the next section hereof, a rating-power or a rate of one shilling in the pound shall henceforth be exercised or levied respectively as if it were a rating-power or rate of three-farthings in the pound on the capital value, and so on a greater or smaller sum in the like proportion for a greater or smaller rating-power or rate than one shilling in the pound on the annual value:
	Proviso as to fixed rates in security of any loan. Provided always that in the case of any fixed rate which forms the whole or any portion of the security for any loan, if the Controller and Auditor-General shall at any time be satisfied that the change above mentioned in the mode of levying rates will have the effect of diminishing the security for such loan, then he may, by order published in the Gazette, fix a rate in accordance with this section which shall as nearly as may be produce the same amount as the rate as levied before the passing of this Act, and thereafter such rate shall for all purposes whatsoever be the rate which shall be levied in lieu of the rate which would otherwise be leviable under the first portion of this section.
	How annual value of property to be estimated where required for water and other fixed rates. Wherever, for the purpose of any water-rate, gas-rate, or other rate fixed by Act or Provincial Ordinance, it is imperative to fix an annual value for any rateable property, then such annual value shall be the sum which is equal to six pounds per centum on the capital value.
84.	Adjustment of rateable value of property for voting purposes. Wherever under any Act or Provincial Ordinance the number of votes which a ratepayer of any district may be entitled to exercise is proportioned to the rateable value of his property in the said district, or to its value on a valuation-roll, then for the purposes of voting, in case and so often as the system of rating is altered in such district, and notwithstanding anything contained in the aforesaid Act or Ordinance, an adjustment shall be made to determine the number of votes to which such ratepayer may be entitled under the altered system of rating, on the basis that every five pounds of annual value shall be deemed to be equal to one hundred pounds of capital value, and vice versa respectively.
85.	Rate-book containing several rates validated. It shall not be deemed to have been necessary that a separate rate-book should be prepared for eaeh rate made under "The Rating Act, 1876." Any such rate-book already made in accordance with this section is hereby validated. No rate-book made under the said Act shall be, or be deemed to have been, invalid on the ground only that the form of rate-book has been altered so as to contain also particulars of other matters than those referred to in the said form.
86.	Gold Duty Abolition Act not affected. Nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to annul or repeal any of the provisions of "The Gold Duty Abolition and Mining Property Rating Act, 1890."page 23
87.	The Acts and enactments enumerated in the Tenth ScheduleRepeal. hereto are hereby repealed; but any rates or arrears of rates madeSaving. prior to the commencement of this Act, or made after such commencementTenth Schedule. for any period ending not later than the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, may be duly collected, sued for, and recovered at any time thereafter as if this Act had not passed.