Auckland Harbour Board Act 1879
Auckland Harbour Board Act 1879
Auckland Harbour Board Act 1879
Auckland Harbour Board Act 1879
Local Act |
1879 No 2 |
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Date of assent |
19 December 1879 |
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Contents
An Act to enable the Auckland Harbour Board to lease, at a peppercorn rental to the Corporation of the City of Auckland, certain. Lands reclaimed from the Foreshore in the Harbour of Auckland.
Preamble.
WHEREAS the Corporation of the City of Auckland, in conjunction with the Auckland Harbour Board, have constructed a road on the foreshore of the Harbour of Auckland, connecting Franklin Road or Street on the west with Drake Street on the east, and by such construction certain of the land the property of the said Harbour Board has been reclaimed from the sea, and the said city has thereby been deprived of its water frontage to the land of the city in that part: And whereas the said Harbour Board, in its treaty with the Corporation of the said city for the construction of the said road, in consideration of the said city contributing the greater part of the cost of the said road, and waiving its right to water frontage, agreed to lease, at a peppercorn rental, for a period not exceeding ninety-nine years, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, to the said city the land intervening between the said road and the land of the city so soon as the Legislature of the colony authorized the said Harbour Board so to do:
Be it therefore 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 is “The Auckland Harbour Board Act, 1879.”
2 Auckland Harbour Board may dispose of certain land reclaimed from harbour foreshore.
It shall be lawful for the said Auckland Harbour Board, and the said Board is hereby empowered and authorized, to demise and lease, for a period not exceeding ninety-nine years, at a peppercorn rental, to the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Auckland the land on the south side of the said road so constructed as aforesaid in Free-man’s Bay, being all that piece or parcel of land, part of the foreshore of the Harbour of Auckland, bounded on the North by the road now in course of construction over the said foreshore, connecting Drake Street with Franklin Road or Street; on the South-west and East by the said Franklin Road; the northern portion of the road bounding Section forty-one of the City of Auckland and Drake Street aforesaid: Provided always that the covenants and powers which, by the provisions of sections twenty and twenty-one of the Conveyancing Ordinance of New Zealand, number ten of Session II., are implied in leases, shall not be inserted or be deemed to be implied in any lease or leases to be granted under this Act, in the same manner as if the covenants and powers in the said sections of the said Ordinance had been expressly negatived, in manner provided by section twenty-six of the said Ordinance, in any such lease or leases to be granted hereunder.