This Act may be cited as the Wellington City Empowering and Amendment Act 1929.

In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context,

(1) The Council may from time to time, by special order, declare that any land taken or appropriated for any specific public work and not required for the purpose for which it was taken shall be used for the purpose of any other public work which the Corporation is authorized to carry out.

(2) On proof of the passing of any such special order the District Land Registrar at Wellington shall, on the application of the Council, note on the certificate of title to the land affected by any such special order the public work for which the Council desires to use such land.

(1) The Wellington City Council may, in consenting to any subdivision of land under the provisions of the Wellington City Empowering Act 1917, or under section three hundred and thirty-five of the Municipal Corporations Act 1920, impose such conditions as to the construction by the owner of the land of public and private drains for the disposal of sewage and storm-water from the said land as such Council thinks fit.

(2) For the purposes of the enactments specifically mentioned in subsection one of this section any division of land to which the said statutory provisions relate, whether into two or more allotments, shall be deemed to be a subdivision of that land for the purposes of sale if at least one of the allotments is intended for disposal by way of sale.

(3) Any person aggrieved by any decision of the Council under this section shall have the same right of appeal as is granted to an aggrieved person under the said section three hundred and thirty-five of the Municipal Corporations Act 1920, and the provisions of that section as to appeals shall apply accordingly.

Subsection one of section seven of the Wellington City Reclamation and Empowering Act 1906, as amended by section eleven of the Wellington City Empowering and Amendment Act 1924, is hereby further amended by omitting the word “twenty-four,” and substituting the word “twenty-nine.”

The portion of Evans Bay Road described in Schedule 1 hereto is hereby closed and vested in the Hataitai Land Company, Limited, in pursuance of an agreement made between the said company and the Corporation for the exchange of this land for certain other adjacent land already transferred to the Corporation for the purpose of widening Evans Bay Road.

(1) The portion of Palliser Road lying between Shannon Street and the Town Belt, now used by the public as a highway, is hereby declared to be a street, and vested in the Corporation accordingly.

(2) The land described in Schedule 2 hereto, being the way leading from Tennis-court Road to the Khandallah Railway-station, is hereby declared to be a street, and vested in the Corporation accordingly.

No special order passed by the Council for the purpose of raising loans shall after the passing thereof be quashed by any proceedings in any Court or otherwise, unless such proceedings are commenced within three months after the date of the passing of the first resolution made by the Council in respect of the special order.

Whereas the Wellington Show Association, Incorporated, in erecting the building on the Town Belt pursuant to the Wellington City Exhibition Grounds Act 1927 [Repealed], without authority of law constructed portion of the building on the right-of-way giving access to the playground south of the said building: Now, therefore, the Council is hereby authorized to permit such encroachment for such period and on such terms as the Council in its absolute discretion thinks fit.

Paragraph (e) of section six of the Wellington City Empowering and Amendment Act 1924, is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “constructing and paving any such,” the words “new street.”

(1) The Council is hereby empowered, in lieu of investing the purchase-moneys referred to in section four of the Wellington City Mangahao Endowment Sale Empowering Act 1924 (hereinafter termed the said Act), as provided by such section, to use the said purchase-moneys for street-widening purposes in the City of Wellington, being the purposes to which the proceeds of the sale of the land described in Schedule 4 hereto would be applicable if the said land were sold under the statutes authorizing the sale of the same, and by resolution to appropriate as an endowment for municipal purposes in the City of Wellington the land described in Schedule 4 hereto, being land purchased for street-widening purposes and now subject to sale by the Corporation.

(2) [Repealed]

The Corporation is hereby authorized to transfer to the Wellington Fire Board, pursuant to the provisions of the Fire Brigades Act 1926, as part of the Constable Street Fire-station, not only the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 361, folio 254 (being the land vested in the said Corporation for fire-brigade purposes), but also the portion of Keringa Street and the portion of the Town Belt described in Schedule 5 hereto, and the said land and buildings shall be valued accordingly.