Act Repealed Latest version as at 01 November 1929 (as enacted) | 1929 No 7

Bluff Harbour Reclamation and Leasing and Empowering Act 1929

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Short Title.

Interpretation.

Bluff Harbour Board may reclaim land described in the First Schedule.

Governor-General in Council may grant to the Board lands described in First and Second Schedules as and when reclaimed.

Harbours Act, 1923, to apply.

Board empowered to carry on passenger and cargo service.

Special Act.

FIRST SCHEDULE

SECOND SCHEDULE

Bluff Harbour Reclamation and Leasing and Empowering Act 1929

Local Act		1929 No 7
Date of assent		1 November 1929

	Title
1	Short Title.
2	Interpretation.
3	Bluff Harbour Board may reclaim land described in the First Schedule.
4	Governor-General in Council may grant to the Board lands described in First and Second Schedules as and when reclaimed.
5	Harbours Act, 1923, to apply.
6	Board empowered to carry on passenger and cargo service.
7	Special Act.
	FIRST SCHEDULE
	SECOND SCHEDULE

An Act to empower the Bluff Harbour Board to reclaim Land from the Waters of the Bluff Harbour and to lease the Land so reclaimed, as well as other Lands, and to empower the Board to carry on a Passenger and Cargo Service.

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.

This Act may be cited as the Bluff Harbour Reclamation and Leasing and Empowering Act, 1929.

2 Interpretation.

In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context, the words “the Board” mean the Bluff Harbour Board.

3 Bluff Harbour Board may reclaim land described in the First Schedule.

Subject to the provisions of section one hundred and seventy-one of the Harbours Act, 1923, it shall be lawful for the Board from time to time, in such parts or subdivisions as it shall think fit, to reclaim from the waters of the Bluff Harbour the parcel of land described in the First Schedule hereto, and for that purpose to dredge and deepen the said harbour and use the material thereby obtained in effecting such reclamation.

4 Governor-General in Council may grant to the Board lands described in First and Second Schedules as and when reclaimed.

It shall be lawful for the Governor-General in Council, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty, to grant to the Board the lands described in the First and Second Schedules hereto as a whole when reclaimed, or from time to time portions of the said lands as and when the same are reclaimed.

5 Harbours Act, 1923, to apply.

Section one hundred and thirty-eight of the Harbours Act, 1923, shall apply with respect to any lands granted to the Board under this Act or under the Bluff Harbour Foreshore Reclamation and Leasing and Borrowing Act, 1902.

6 Board empowered to carry on passenger and cargo service.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Harbours Act, 1923, the Board is hereby and shall be deemed to have always been empowered to carry on a passenger and cargo service between the Bluff and Half-moon Bay, Stewart Island, and to charge such fares and freights in respect thereto as shall from time to time be fixed by the Board.

7 Special Act.

This Act shall be deemed to be a special Act within the meaning of the Harbours Act, 1923.

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE

All that piece of land, containing 21 acres, more or less, shown edged yellow on the plan marked M.D. 6546, and deposited in the office of the Marine Department, at Wellington.

SECOND SCHEDULE

All that piece of land, containing 5 acres, more or less, shown edged pink on the plan marked M.D. 6546, and deposited in the office of the Marine Department, at Wellington.

Bluff Harbour Reclamation and Leasing and Empowering Act 1929