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Hi—22a

Hospitals and Charitable Institutions.

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application of the Board, may deduct from the subsidies payable to such local authority under any Act or authority a sum equal to the amount prescribed as aforesaid, or such part as may be unpaid, and shall pay the same over to the Hospital and Charitable Aid Fund of the district in respect of which such failure occurred. 42. Where any contributions required from local authorities prove to be in excess of the actual necessities of the district, the Board may by resolution release such local authorities from the payment of any part of such contributions ; but every such release shall be made uniformly and to the same degree to all the contributing local authorities in proportion to their respective contributions; or, if such contributions have been paid by the local authorities, the surplus remaining at the end of any year in the hands of the Board shall be carried forward to the credit of the succeeding year, in reduction of the amount of contribution to be collected for the expenses of the Board in that year. 43. (1.) Where in any part of a district there is no local authority, the Colonial Treasurer shall be deemed to be the contributing local authority, and, on the application of the Board accompanied by an account of the amount of contribution required from that part of the district, shall send such account to the Valuer-General. (2.) The Valuer-General shall forthwith on receipt of such account proceed to raise, by means of rates on all rateable property within that part of the district, the amount stated in the account, together with the amount of the estimated cost of making and collecting such rates. (3.) For the purpose of making and collecting any such rate the valuation roll made under " The Government Valuation of Land Act, 1896," shall be deemed to be the valuation roll of the rateable property in the aforesaid part of a district; and the Valuer-General shall be deemed to be a local authority within the meaning of " The Rating Act, 1894," all the provisions whereof shall apply to the making and collecting of such rate. (4.) All rates so raised shall be paid to the Board, less the amount of expenses for collecting the same, which shall be paid into the Public Account and form part of the Consolidated Fund. Real and Personal Property. A4l. (1.) All property, real or personal, that on the coming into operation of this Act was vested in any Hospital Board or Hospital and Charitable Aid Board for the purposes of a hospital, or was vested in the Trustees of any institution the control of which is by this Act vested in the Board, or was held by or vested in any persons in trust for or on behalf of any such institution, and all real and personal property hereafter conveyed, granted, or bequeathed to or on behalf of any such institution, shall vest in the Board. (2.) All such property shall be held by the Board upon and for the same trusts and purposes (subject to this Act) as are now or may hereafter be attached to the same, and subject to any contracts leases, mortgages, or other debts or charges for the time being

Board may remit contributions in case of excess.

Valuer-General may levy contribu tions in districts where no rates levied.

Real and personal property to vest in Board.

Saving of debts, liabilities, &o.

11.— H. 22a.