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3. The area described in the Second Schedule hereto shall be included in the district of the said city.

4. For representation purposes only, the district of the City of Wellington herein prescribed shall, for a period expiring on completion of the 3-year term of office of the councillors to be elected to the Wellington City Council at the triennial general election of councillors to be held in 1974, be divided into two wards with the following names and boundaries:

(a) The Makara Ward, comprising the area described in the First Schedule hereto; and
(b) The Wellington City Ward, comprising the areas described in the Third Schedule hereto.

5. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (e) of section 4 of the Municipal Corporations Act 1954, nothing contained herein shall operate to prevent the Wellington City Council, pursuant to section 23 of the Municipal Corporations Act 1954, from subdividing the area described herein as the Wellington City Ward into further wards, not exceeding five in number, for the period specified in clause 4 of this order.

6. Nothing herein provided shall operate to prevent the Council of the City of Wellington from continuing a ward system for representation purposes beyond the period hereinbefore prescribed in accordance with the provisions of section 23 of the Municipal Corporations Act 1954.

7. For the period referred to in clause 4 of this order, the Council of the City of Wellington herein prescribed shall comprise 16 members, exclusive of the Mayor, and ward representation shall be as follows:

Makara Ward ......... 1 member
Wellington City Ward ....... 15 members

Provided that nothing herein shall preclude the Wellington City Council from altering the number of councillors to represent the Wellington City Ward in accordance with and subject to the provisions of section 53 of the Municipal Corporations Act 1954, and for this purpose the Wellington City Ward shall be deemed to be an "undivided borough".

8. The first election of the Council referred to in clause 7 of this order shall be held on the date fixed for the next triennial general election of members of local authorities pursuant to the provisions of the Local Elections and Polls Act 1966.

9. Until the members of the Council of the City of Wellington come into office following the triennial general election referred to in clause 8 of this order, the Council of the said city shall comprise the Mayor of the City of Wellington and 16 councillors as follows:

(a) One councillor to represent the Makara Ward who shall be the member of the Hutt County Council elected to represent the Makara Riding of Hutt County and holding office immediately prior to the date on which this order takes effect.
(b) Fifteen councillors to represent the Wellington City Ward who shall be the 15 councillors of the Wellington City Council holding office immediately prior to the date on which this order takes effect.

10. (a) The system of rating shall be on the basis of the unimproved or land values as the case may be.
    (b) Until such time as a revised valuation of the whole of the city herein prescribed shall come into effect the provisions of the Rating Act 1967 shall, where applicable and with the necessary modifications, apply to the said city as if, for the purposes of Part IX of the said Act, the said city were a "special purpose authority" and as if the area described in the First and Third Schedules hereto were "constituent districts" within the provisions of the said Act.

11. The transfer of any members of the staff of the Hutt County Council to the service of the Wellington City Council in terms of the agreement between the Councils of the Cities of Wellington, Lower Hutt, Porirua, and Upper Hutt and the County of Hutt shall be deemed to be transfers of permanent employees within the meaning of section 4 of the Local Authorities (Employment Protection) Act 1963 and the provisions of that Act shall, with any necessary modifications, apply accordingly.

12. So far as they are applicable and with the necessary modifications the provisions of section 99A of the Land Transfer Act 1952 shall apply to the alteration of boundaries herein provided.

13. Except as otherwise provided herein or in the Local Government Commission Act 1967, the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act 1954 shall apply to the alteration of boundaries herein provided.

FIRST SCHEDULE

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District containing 73 square miles, more or less, being portion of the County of Hutt and reclamations bounded by a line commencing at a point on the mean high-water mark of the sea in line with the north-eastern boundary of Lot 1, Plan B/271, in Block V, Belmont S.D., and proceeding generally southeasterly along the generally north-eastern and south-eastern boundaries of the said Lot 1, the western boundary of Lot 1, D.P. 9126, the north-eastern boundary of Lot 1, D.P. 11219, a right line across Ohariu Valley Road to and along the north-eastern boundaries of Lots 11 and 12, D.P. 27582; the north-western, northern and eastern boundaries of Section 118, Ohariu District, the generally eastern boundaries of Section 117, Ohariu District, the northern boundary of part Section 32, Porirua District (C.T. 352/257), a right line across Porirua Road and the North Island Main Trunk Railway to and along the northern boundary of Section 33, Porirua District, and its production to the eastern side of No. 1 State Highway (Motorway); thence generally north-easterly along that side and the eastern side of Takapu Road to and along the northern boundary of Section 39, Porirua District, and the eastern boundaries of Sections 40 and 169, Porirua District (including the crossing of Takapu Road), to the north-western corner of Section 1, Takapu District; thence easterly along the northern boundary of the said Section 1 (including the crossing of Takapu Road) to its north-eastern corner; thence generally southerly along the eastern boundary of the said Section 1, the northern and eastern boundaries of Section 38, Horokiwi Road District, the eastern boundaries of Sections 19 and 41, Horokiwi Road District, and Section 156, Porirua District, the production of the last-mentioned boundary to and along the middle of Horokiwi Road to a point in line with the southernmost portion of the north-eastern boundary of part Section 17, Harbour District (C.T. 150/39), and to and along that boundary and its production to the mean high-water mark of Wellington Harbour; thence south-westerly along that high-water mark to a point in line with the north-eastern boundary of Section 7, Harbour District, in Block XII, Belmont S.D.; thence generally northerly, south-westerly, and southerly along the boundaries of the City of Wellington as described in Gazette, 1967, p. 2250, to the mean high-water mark of the sea; thence generally westerly, north-westerly, and north-easterly along the mean high-water mark of the sea to the point of commencement.

SECOND SCHEDULE

TAPUTERANGA Island containing 0.01 of a square mile, more or less, situated in Block XIII, Port Nicholson S.D. (S.O. 12079).

THIRD SCHEDULE

FIRSTLY, the City of Wellington as described in Gazette, 1967, p. 2250.
Secondly, Taputeranga Island, situated in Block XIII, Port Nicholson S.D. (S.O. 12079).

P. J. BROOKS, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Boundaries of County of Hutt and City of Porirua Altered

DENIS BLUNDELL, Governor-General ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington this 15th day of January 1973 Present:

THE HON. N. E. KIRK PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to the Local Government Commission Act 1967, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby makes the following order.

ORDER

1. This order shall come into effect on 1 April 1973.
2. The boundaries of the districts of the County of Hutt and the City of Porirua shall be altered by excluding from the district of the said county and including in the district of the said city, the areas described in the First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Schedules hereto.
3. The area described in the Sixth Schedule hereto shall be included in the district of the said city.