The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Otago Surveys Correction Act 1868.”

The Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands and the Chief Surveyor of Otago are respectively hereby authorized and required to amend the official records in their respective offices of the several parcels of land therein described with the numbers marks boundaries and measurements set forth in the first columns of the first and second Schedules hereto by altering such numbers marks boundaries and measurements so as to make the descriptions of such parcels of land in the maps plans books and records of their respective offices to correspond with the descriptions which are specified in the second columns of the first and second Schedules hereto and are respectively set opposite to the descriptions of the parcels of land in the said first columns which are intended to be corrected and in lieu of the descriptions of the said several parcels of land as specified in the Schedules A. and B. to “The Presbyterian Church of Otago Lands Act 1866” and respectively numbered in the said Schedules A. and B. as ten fifteen twenty-five twenty-six twenty-seven thirty-one thirty-two thirty-three thirty-four forty sixty-seven sixty-nine seventy-one seventy-six seventy-nine eighty eighty-one eighty-two and eighty-three as the said descriptions are set out in the first columns of the first and second Schedules hereto there shall be substituted the descriptions which are specified in the second columns of the first and second Schedules hereto and are respectively set opposite to the descriptions in the said first columns for which they are intended to be substituted and the said Act shall be construed and read as if such descriptions had respectively been inserted in the Schedules A. and B. to the said Act at the passing thereof and the said Act and Schedule B. thereto shall be read and construed as if the description of the piece of land lastly set out in the second column of Schedule B. to this Act had been inserted in Schedule B. to the said Act at the passing thereof.

Nothing herein contained shall authorize any such amendment or alteration in the descriptions of any of the aforesaid parcels of land as would injuriously interfere with or affect the existing rights titles or interests of the owners of lands adjoining thereto or any of them.