Christchurch–Lyttelton Road Tunnel Authority Dissolution Act 1978

1: Short Title and commencement
1: This Act may be cited as the Christchurch–Lyttelton Road Tunnel Authority Dissolution Act 1978.
2: This Act shall come into force on 1 April 1979.
2: Interpretation
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— Authority Board section 93 New Zealand Transport Agency section 93 tunnel Section 2 account repealed 1 August 2008 section 50(1) Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008 Section 2 Board substituted 1 August 2008 section 50(1) Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008 Section 2 New Zealand Transport Agency inserted 1 August 2008 section 50(1) Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008 Section 2 Transit repealed 1 August 2008 section 50(1) Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008 Section 2 Transit New Zealand repealed 13 November 2003 section 90 Land Transport Management Act 2003
3: Dissolution of Authority and abolition of tolls
1: The Christchurch–Lyttelton Road Tunnel Authority is hereby dissolved.
2: All tolls prescribed in respect of the use of the Christchurch–Lyttelton Road Tunnel are hereby abolished.
4: Vesting of assets and liabilities of Authority in Crown
1: On the commencement of this section—
a: all real property, including the tunnel, belonging to the Authority, and all rights and obligations attaching thereto is hereby vested in the Crown:
b: all other assets, and debts, loan charges, liabilities, and obligations of any nature, whether present or contingent, belonging to or subsisting immediately before the date of commencement of this Act in the name of or on behalf of the Authority shall become the assets, debts, loan charges, liabilities, and obligations of the Crown.
2: The District Land Registrar, on receiving a written request from the Minister of Works and Development, incorporating a reference to this section, shall without fee make such entries in his registers and on any outstanding documents of title and generally do all such things as may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of subsection (1) in respect of land and interests in land specified in the request.
3: All references to the Authority in any security or other document whatever which is subsisting immediately before the date of commencement of this section, or in any notice or other communication served, given, or sent before, on, or after that date in relation to any such security or other document shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as references to the Crown.
5: Continuance of proceedings
1: All proceedings pending by or against the Authority on the date of commencement of this Act in respect of its undertaking or functions may, if arising out of any matter specified in section 4 New Zealand Transport Agency
2: Any proceedings resulting from any matter arising before the date of commencement of this Act but not commenced before that date may be commenced, carried on, completed and enforced—
a: by or against the Crown, if the proceedings relate to any matter specified in section 4
b: by or against the New Zealand Transport Agency Section 5(1) amended 1 August 2008 section 50(1) Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008 Section 5(2)﻿(b) amended 1 August 2008 section 50(1) Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008
6: Tunnel to be public highway, etc
1: The tunnel and the approaches thereto are hereby declared to be a public highway.
2: Subject to sections 4 7
a: there shall be payable, out of the balance of the fund within the meaning of the Land Transport Management Act 2003
b: all money payable to the Authority or the Board is payable to the New Zealand Transport Agency and is to be treated as land transport revenue for the purposes of the Land Transport Management Act 2003
c: the benefit of any contract or undertaking entered into by or on behalf of the Authority or the Board shall be deemed to be assigned to the New Zealand Transport Agency
3: Section 6(2) substituted 1 October 1989 section 116(4) Government Roading Powers Act 1989 Section 6(2) amended 1 August 2008 section 50(1) Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008 Section 6(2)﻿(a) amended 1 August 2008 section 50(1) Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008 Section 6(2)﻿(b) substituted 1 August 2008 section 50(1) Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008 Section 6(2)﻿(c) amended 1 August 2008 section 50(1) Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008 Section 6(3) repealed 1 October 1989 116(4) Government Roading Powers Act 1989
7: Authorising Lyttelton Harbour Board to provide services
Subject to such apportionment of costs and expenses and to such other conditions as may be agreed upon between the Lyttelton Harbour Board and the New Zealand Transport Agency Section 7 amended 1 August 2008 section 50(1) Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008
8: Saving of bylaws and bylaw-making powers
1: Notwithstanding the repeal of the Christchurch–Lyttelton Road Tunnel Act 1956 but subject to section 3(2) unless sooner revoked, and all bylaws made by the Board under this Act, shall become bylaws of the New Zealand Transport Agency the New Zealand Transport Agency
2: The New Zealand Transport Agency
3: The making, revocation, or alteration of any such bylaw shall be by resolution of the New Zealand Transport Agency the New Zealand Transport Agency Government Roading Powers Act 1989
4: For the purposes of the Land Transport Act 1998 section 22AB
5: Every person who acts in contravention of or fails to comply with any bylaw for the time being in force under this section commits an offence and shall be liable on Section 8(1) amended 1 August 2008 section 50(1) Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008 Section 8(1) amended 1 October 1989 section 116(4) Government Roading Powers Act 1989 Section 8(2) amended 1 August 2008 section 50(1) Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008 Section 8(3) amended 1 August 2008 section 50(1) Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008 Section 8(4) substituted 10 May 2011 section 100(3) Land Transport (Road Safety and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2011 Section 8(5) amended 1 July 2013 section 413 Criminal Procedure Act 2011
9: Repeal
The Christchurch–Lyttelton Road Tunnel Act 1956 is hereby repealed.