Local Legislation Act 1982

1: Short Title
This Act may be cited as the Local Legislation Act 1982.
2: Auckland Regional Authority: Authorising payments to persons attending meetings and conferences, and validating illegal payments made to such persons
1: Before 1 April 1983, subsections (1)(d) and (3)(c) of section 214
a: are members of any committee or subcommittee of the Auckland Regional Authority (hereafter in this section referred to as the Authority); and
b: are neither members nor employees of the Authority,— as if they are members of the Authority.
2: Where, pursuant to a resolution of the Authority, any member of the Authority, or any member of a committee or subcommittee of the Authority (whether or not a member of the Authority), attends any conference or meeting before 1 April 1983 as a representative of the Authority, not being a meeting of any local authority of which he is a member, the said section 214 regional council
3: Every payment made before the commencement of this Act by the Authority to any person in respect of his attendance at a conference or meeting is hereby deemed to be as valid as if subsection (1) had come into force on the commencement of the said section 214 section 28
3: Bay of Islands County Council: Validating invalid fees
1: Notwithstanding that the Bay of Islands County Council has purported to fix all fees charged before 1 November 1982 in relation to scheme plans for the subdivision of land (hereafter in this section referred to as the said fees) by resolution,—
a: each of the said fees is hereby validated and deemed to have been as lawful; and
b: all actions of the said Council in charging the said fees are hereby validated and deemed to have been as lawful; and
c: all money received by the said Council in payment of any of the said fees is hereby deemed to have been as lawfully paid and received; and
d: such of the said fees, and such part of any of the said fees, charged in respect of any plan submitted to the said Council before 1 November 1982 as has not yet been paid to the said Council is hereby deemed to be as lawfully payable, and as capable of being recovered as if it had always been lawfully payable,— as if each of the said fees had been fixed by a bylaw of the said Council, duly made, and confirmed on the day on which the said Council purported to fix that fee by resolution.
2: Every resolution of the said Council purporting to fix any of the said fees may be amended or revoked by the said Council in the same manner and to the same extent as if it were a bylaw.
3: Where any resolution of the said Council made before 1 November 1982 purported to amend or revoke any earlier resolution of the said Council purporting to fix any of the said fees, that first-mentioned resolution shall be deemed to have had effect according to its tenor.
4: Clutha County Council: Validating illegal lump sum payment scheme
The Silverpeaks County Council (Lump Sum Contributions) Empowering Act 1981
a: every reference in that Act to the Silverpeaks County Council were a reference to the Clutha County Council; and
b: every reference in that Act to the Silverpeaks County were a reference to the Clutha County; and
c: the reference in section 3(1) of that Act section 443 section 241 of the Counties Act 1956
d: the words “Pursuant to the Silverpeaks County Council (Lump Sum Contributions) Empowering Act 1981” had been omitted from form 1 of the Schedule of that Act.
5: Dunedin City Council: Validating unlawful contract for purchase of computer
Notwithstanding section 23(1) of the Local Authorities Loans Act 1956,—
a: the contract dated 11 June 1982 between the Dunedin City Council (hereafter in this section referred to as the Council) and International Computers (New Zealand) Limited for the purchase of certain computer equipment and software (hereafter in this section referred to as the Contract) is hereby deemed to be as valid and lawful; and
b: all payments made by the Council under the Contract are hereby deemed to have been as lawfully made; and
c: any future payment by the Council provided for in the Contract is hereby deemed to be as lawfully payable,— as if the period over which the Council is required by the Contract to make payments were part of the year ending with 31 March 1983.
6: Kaiapoi Borough Council: Authorising lease of land held in trust
1: Subject to subsection (2), the Kaiapoi Borough Council is hereby authorised and empowered—
a: to lease to the Boy Scouts Association of New Zealand—
i: that part of the land described in subsection (4) (hereafter in this section referred to as the said land) upon which there was, immediately before the commencement of this Act, a building erected by that Association; and
ii: such other part or parts of the said land as, in the opinion of the said Council, it is necessary or desirable to lease to that Association in order to enable it to obtain adequate access to and benefit from the land described in subparagraph (i); and
b: to subdivide the said land accordingly.
2: The said Council shall not lease more than 1 000 m 2
3: Such part of the said land as the said Council leases to that Association shall thereupon be freed from all trusts, reservations, and restrictions to which it was theretofore subject; and the
4: The said land comprises all that parcel of land situated in the Borough of Kaiapoi containing approximately 6 677 m 2 Section 6(3) amended 1 June 2002 section 38(2) Land Transfer (Computer Registers and Electronic Lodgement) Amendment Act 2002
7: Mackenzie, Strathallan, and Waimate County Councils: Validating invalid rates
Notwithstanding that the notice required by section 52 of the Rating Act 1967 was not given in respect of the rates and charges specified in the Schedule
a: the said rates are hereby validated and deemed to have been lawfully made:
b: all actions of any County Council in levying and collecting any of the said rates made by it are hereby validated and deemed to have been lawful:
c: all money received by any County Council in respect of any of the said rates made by it is hereby deemed to have been lawfully paid to and received by it:
d: such part of any of the said rates as has not yet been paid to the County Council by which it was made is hereby deemed to be lawfully payable, and capable of being collected as if it had always been lawfully payable.
8: Te Puke Borough Council: Authorising use of proceeds from sale of endowment for reserve development
1: Notwithstanding section 230
a: the development of the Council Reserve known as Centennial Park:
b: the construction of facilities on that reserve.
2: The said land comprises all those parcels of land situated in the Borough of Te Puke together containing approximately 1.1093 hectares being Lot 1 DPS 13934 and Lots  3 to 5 and 7 to 10, and Part Lots 1, 2, and 6, DPS 30558, and being—
a: all the land comprised and described in certificates of title Nos 27C/796, 27C/797, 27C/798, 27C/799, 27C/800, 27C/801, and 27C/802 (South Auckland Registry):
b: the residue of the land comprised and described in certificate of title No 12B/133 (South Auckland Registry):
c: so much of the land comprised and described in certificates of title Nos 27C/795 and 28B/332 (South Auckland Registry) as was formerly comprised and described in the said certificate of title No 12B/133.
9: West Coast Electric Power Board: Validating unlawful purchase of shares and authorising purchase of further shares
1: Notwithstanding that it is not authorised by law to do so, the actions of the West Coast Electric Power Board in—
a: purchasing 3 333 $1 shares in Westland Data Processing Limited for $3,333 on 27 April 1977; and
b: entering into—
i: an agreement with Milne David Barrymore Jellie, Philip John Heaphy, and John Michael Marshall dated 14 September 1982 to purchase a further 3 333 $1 shares in that company at a price to be agreed between the parties to that agreement; and
ii: an agreement with Trumans Limited dated 27 October 1982 to purchase a further 3 333 $1 shares in that company at a price to be agreed between the parties to that agreement,— are hereby validated and deemed to have been lawful; and those agreements are hereby validated and deemed to be lawful and binding according to their tenor.
2: The West Coast Electric Power Board is hereby authorised and empowered to have and exercise all the rights and powers in respect of any shares that it holds in Westland Data Processing Limited and in respect of that company, including the right to subscribe for or purchase further shares in that company, that it would have if it were an individual person.