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(1) The Governor-General shall, on the advice of the Minister of Finance, by Order in Council determine the capital of the Corporation at the commencement of this Act.
(2) Any amount owing to the Crown by the Corporation at the commencement of this Act and specified in the Order in Council made under subsection (1) of this section shall be deemed to have been paid to the Corporation by the Minister of Finance as part of the capital of the Corporation, and the liability of the Corporation to repay advances of that amount shall be extinguished.
(3) The Corporation may from time to time, by resolution, recommend to the Minister of Finance that the capital of the Corporation be increased, and in any such case the Governor-General on the advice of the Minister of Finance, may by Order in Council increase the capital of the Corporation to such an amount as may be prescribed in that order. The amount of any such increase shall be paid to the Corporation by the Minister of Finance.
(4) The Corporation may from time to time, by resolution, recommend to the Minister of Finance that the capital of the Corporation be reduced, and in any such case, the Governor-General on the advice of the Minister of Finance may, by Order in Council, decrease the capital of the Corporation to such amount as may be prescribed in that order.
Subsection (4) was inserted, as from 28 August 1990, by section 34 New Zealand Railways Corporation Restructuring Act 1990 (1990 No 105).