Ministerial Residence Lease and Lowry Bay Sale Act 1873
Ministerial Residence Lease and Lowry Bay Sale Act 1873
Ministerial Residence Lease and Lowry Bay Sale Act 1873
Ministerial Residence Lease and Lowry Bay Sale Act 1873
Public Act |
1873 No 78 |
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Date of assent |
2 October 1873 |
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Contents
An Act to authorize a Lease to be taken of certain Lands in the City of Wellington for a Ministerial Residence; and to authorize the Sale of certain Property of the Crown at Lowry Bay.
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Short Title.
The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Ministerial Residence Lease and Lowry Bay Sale Act, 1873.”
2 Governor may lease certain lands in Wellington for a Ministerial residence.
It shall be lawful for the Governor, in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, to accept a lease to Her said Majesty of all that piece or parcel of land in the City of Wellington, containing three acres or thereabouts, and being sections numbered five hundred and ninety-seven, five hundred and ninety-eight, and five hundred and ninety-nine on the plan of the said city in the Crown Lands Office there, together with the messuage or tenement and buildings thereon.
Such lease shall be for a term of years not exceeding three years, to commence from the first day of July last, and such lease may contain such covenants on the part of the lessee, Her successors and assigns, as the Governor shall be advised to be usual or necessary in leases of a like nature.
The rent to be payable for the said land and premises shall not exceed the annual sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, to be paid out of the Consolidated Fund, and such rent may be made payable in and by equal half-yearly payments.
3 Governor may sell, and in meantime may expend moneys on, Lowry Bay estate.
It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, whenever he shall think fit, and in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, to sell the estate known as Lowry Bay: Provided that until the said estate be sold the Governor may from time to time spend any sum or sums, not exceeding in the aggregate two thousand pounds, upon the permanent improvement of the said estate.
4 Application of moneys.
The moneys by this Act authorized to be applied as aforesaid shall be applied in the permanent improvement of the said estate in such manner as the Governor shall think fit; and the cost of all additions and repairs made since the arrival of the present Governor shall be paid thereout.
5 Colonial Treasurer may advance moneys.
The Colonial Treasurer may from time to time advance out of the Consolidated Revenue for the purposes of this Act such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding in the whole two thousand pounds.
6 When Governor for time being unwilling to pay interest, estate to be sold.
Whenever the Governor for the time being shall be unwilling to pay on the sums so advanced interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, the said Lowry Bay estate shall be sold, and the proceeds thereof shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.