Preamble

Whereas by the Paritutu Centennial Park Act 1938 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act) the lands described in Schedule 1 of the principal Act were vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of New Plymouth for the purposes of a recreation ground to be known as “the Paritutu Centennial Park”, as a memorial of the celebration in the year 1941 of the first 100 years of organised settlement of the Provincial District of Taranaki:

And whereas prior to such vesting the said lands described in Schedule 1 of the principal Act were held in trust by the New Plymouth Harbour Board for the construction and maintenance of such docks, piers, and other works as might be deemed advisable by the Board for facilitating the trade and commerce of the Town of New Plymouth:

And whereas by the principal Act the lands described in Schedule 1 of this Act which, together with other lands, were previously held in trust by the said New Plymouth Harbour Board for the same purposes as those for which the lands described in Schedule 1 of the principal Act were held by the said Board as aforesaid, were vested by the principal Act in His Majesty the King for the purposes of a public road:

And whereas the lands described in Schedule 1 are now vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of New Plymouth (hereinafter referred to as the Council) as public streets but are no longer required as such:

And whereas by the principal Act certain rights affecting Paritutu Centennial Park and also the lands described in Schedule 3 (excepting however that piece of land included in the said Schedule 3 having an area of 25 perches and four-tenths of a perch) including rights of ingress, egress, and way over and upon such lands were reserved to and vested in the said New Plymouth Harbour Board and are now vested in the Taranaki Harbours Board constituted by the Taranaki Harbours Act 1965 (the said Taranaki Harbours Board being hereinafter referred to as the Board), but such rights are no longer required by the Board which has agreed to their being cancelled:

And whereas the Council, the Board, and Her Majesty the Queen acting by and through the Minister of Housing (hereinafter referred to as the Minister) have entered into an Agreement dated 1 July 1968, a copy whereof is contained in Schedule 2 whereby, subject to the necessary statutory validation being obtained, the lands described in Schedule 1 of the principal Act (excluding however the lands described in Schedule 3 of this Act which are now included in the said Park but which are vested by this Act in the Board) together with the land described in Schedule 4 of this Act (which is now vested in the Board) are to be included in the said Park:

And whereas it is further provided by the said Agreement that subject to such statutory validation as aforesaid the Board should pay to the Council in accordance with the provisions of the said Agreement the sum of $50,000 which shall be applied by the Council as hereinafter provided and that the Council should pay to the Minister in accordance with the said Agreement the sum of $2,210 as compensation for loss of access.

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Paritutu Centennial Park Act 1968.

2 Validation of agreement

Notwithstanding anything contained in any statute the said Agreement dated 1 July 1968 is hereby declared to be and to have always been effective, valid, and binding in all respects according to its tenor, and the Council, the Board, and the Minister are hereby authorised and empowered to carry out the terms and conditions of the said Agreement and to do all things necessary to give full effect to it.

3 Stopping of streets

Eden Street and those parts of Paritutu Crescent which are described in Schedule 1 are hereby declared to be stopped as streets.

4 Vesting of lands

(1) The lands secondly described in Schedule 1 and the lands described in Schedule 3 are hereby vested in the Board for an estate in fee simple in trust for harbour purposes but otherwise freed and discharged from the trusts and reservations affecting them at the date of the passing of this Act.

(2) The lands described in Schedule 5 (including the land described in Schedule 4 and the land firstly described in Schedule 1) are hereby vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of New Plymouth in fee simple as public reserves within the meaning of the Reserves and Domains Act 1953 to be held for recreation purposes with the name of Paritutu Centennial Park and as a memorial of the celebration in the year 1941 of the first 100 years of organised settlement of the provincial district of Taranaki.

5 Application of moneys

The Council shall apply the moneys to be paid by the Board as provided in the said Agreement as follows—
- (a) on receipt of the first instalment of $10,000 payable by the Board under clause 2 of the said Agreement, the Council shall pay thereout to the Minister the sum of $2,210 payable pursuant to the said Agreement:
- (b) the Council shall apply the balance of such first instalment and also all subsequent instalments including any interest received thereon as hereinafter mentioned for or towards the construction of a scenic roadway in and through Paritutu Centennial Park and the development and improvement of Paritutu Centennial Park generally including the acquisition of additional lands as public reserves within the meaning of the Reserves and Domains Act 1953 to be held for recreation purposes as an addition to Paritutu Centennial Park:
- (c) the Council may from time to time pending the application of any such moneys received from the Board for the purposes mentioned in paragraph (b) place such moneys together with any interest thereon on deposit at interest in accordance with the provisions of section 89 of the Municipal Corporations Act 1954.

6 Registrar to make entries in register

The District Land Registrar of the Taranaki Land Registration District is hereby authorised to make such entries in the register for the District as shall be required to give effect to the provisions of this Act.

7 Repeals

(1) The enactments specified in Schedule 6 are hereby repealed.

(2) Without limiting the provisions of the Acts Interpretation Act 1924, it is hereby declared that the repeal of any provisions by this Act shall not affect any document made or anything whatsoever done under the provision so repealed or under any corresponding former provision, and such document or thing, so far as it is subsisting or in force at the time of the repeal and could have been made or done under this Act, shall continue and have effect as if it had been made or done under the corresponding provision of this Act and as if that provision had been in force when the document was made or the thing was done.

Preamble, ss 3, 4

Firstly, all that piece of land in the Taranaki Land District and situated in the City of New Plymouth, containing 25 perches and nine-tenths of a perch, more or less, being part Paritutu Crescent, City of New Plymouth, adjoining part Section 137 (Deposited Plan 3830), Omata District; as more particularly shown on Survey Office Plan 9934, lodged in the Office of the Chief Surveyor at New Plymouth and thereon coloured green.

Secondly, all that piece of land in the Taranaki Land District and situated in the City of New Plymouth, containing 4 acres and 12 perches and one-tenth of a perch, more or less, being Eden Street and part of Paritutu Crescent, City of New Plymouth, adjoining or passing through Lot 3, Deposited Plan 8465, being part Section 137 (Deposited Plan 3830), Lot 1, Deposited Plan 9022, being part Section 137 (Deposited Plan 3830), and part Section 137 (Deposited Plan 4087), Lots 1 and 2, Deposited Plan 9829, being parts Section 137, and Lot 30 and part Lot 32, Deposited Plan 6983, being parts Section 58, parts Section 137 (Deposited Plan 4087), and parts Section 137 (Deposited Plan 3830), Omata District; as more particularly shown on Survey Office Plan 9934, lodged in the office of the Chief Surveyor at New Plymouth and thereon coloured green.

Preamble, s 2

This Agreement is made the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight (1968) between the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of New Plymouth (hereinafter referred to as “the Council”) of the first part the Taranaki Harbours Board (hereinafter referred to as “the Board”) of the second part and Her Majesty the Queen acting by and through the Minister of Housing (hereinafter referred to as “the Minister”) of the third part. Whereas the Council with the consent and agreement of the Board and the Minister proposes to introduce in the House of Representatives a Local Bill having as its object the consolidation and amendment of the Paritutu Centennial Park Act 1938 and the validation of this Agreement which provides for: firstly, the stopping as streets of Eden Street and parts of Paritutu Crescent being streets in the City of New Plymouth (the lands comprising Eden Street and parts of Paritutu Crescent to be stopped as aforesaid being described in the First Schedule hereto); secondly, the vesting in the Council for the purposes of Paritutu Centennial Park in the City of New Plymouth of that part of the lands firstly described in the said First Schedule; thirdly, the vesting in the Board of that part of the land secondly described in the said First Schedule; fourthly, the vesting in the Board of those parts of the said Paritutu Centennial Park which are described in the Second Schedule hereto; and, fifthly, the vesting in the Council for the purposes of Paritutu Centennial Park aforesaid of the land now belonging to the Board which is described in the Third Schedule hereto. And whereas the proposed stopping as aforesaid of part of Paritutu Crescent will cause loss to the Minister by reason of such stopping depriving land which adjoins such part of Paritutu Crescent and is vested in Her Majesty the Queen for State housing purposes, of access to Paritutu Crescent, and the Minister has agreed to such stopping on the condition that the Council will compensate the Minister for such loss in the manner hereinafter mentioned. Now this Agreement witnesseth as follows:

1 As soon as is practicable after these presents shall have been executed by the parties hereto the Council will at its own sole cost and expense take such action as may be necessary to obtain statutory validation of this Agreement so as to ensure that notwithstanding anything contained in any Act the parties hereto shall be respectively deemed to have been at all times authorised and empowered to enter into and execute and complete the terms and provisions of this Agreement and also to ensure that this Agreement shall be binding on the respective parties hereto and shall be for all purposes effective according to its tenor, and the Board agrees to give all such assistance as is required or necessary to enable such statutory validation to be obtained.

2 The Board hereby agrees with the Council that on the lands secondly described in the said First Schedule and the lands described in the said Second Schedule hereto being vested in the Board by such statutory validation as aforesaid the Board shall pay to the Council the sum of fifty thousand dollars by five annual payments of ten thousand dollars each, the first of such payments to be made on a date twelve calendar months after the coming into force of the validating statute.

3 The Council hereby agrees with the Minister that on the lands described in the said First Schedule being stopped as aforesaid as streets the Council shall pay to the Minister on receiving payment from the Board of the first payment of ten thousand dollars as provided in clause 2 hereof the sum of two thousand two hundred and ten dollars which shall be accepted by the Minister as full compensation for all loss caused by the stopping as a street of the part of Paritutu Crescent included in the lands described in the said Second Schedule.

4 The Board hereby agrees to the revocation of the rights reserved to the Board by subsections (2) and (3) of section three of the Paritutu Centennial Park Act 1938 which affect the lands described in the Second Schedule to such Act and to the repeal of the said subsections and of the said Second Schedule.

First Schedule

Firstly all that area in the Taranaki Land District and situated in the City of New Plymouth containing 25.9 perches, more or less, being part Paritutu Crescent, City of New Plymouth, adjoining part Section 137 (Deposited Plan 3830) Omata District; as more particularly shown on Survey Office Plan 9934, lodged in the Office of the Chief Surveyor at New Plymouth and thereon coloured green.

Secondly all that area in the Taranaki Land District and situated in the City of New Plymouth containing 4 acres 0 roods 12.1 perches, more or less, being Eden Street and part of Paritutu Crescent, City of New Plymouth, adjoining or passing through Lot 3, Deposited Plan 8465, being part Section 137 (Deposited Plan 3830), Lot 1, Deposited Plan 9022, being part Section 137 (Deposited Plan 3830), and part Section 137 (Deposited Plan 4087), Lots 1 and 2, Deposited Plan 9829, being parts Section 137 and Lot 30 and part Lot 32, Deposited Plan 6983, being parts Section 58, parts Section 137 (Deposited Plan 4087), and parts Section 137 (Deposited Plan 3830), Omata District, as more particularly shown on Survey Office Plan 9934, lodged in the office of the Chief Surveyor at New Plymouth and thereon coloured green.

Second Schedule

All those areas in the Taranaki Land District situated in the City of New Plymouth containing firstly 25.4 perches, more or less, being part Section 137 (Deposited Plan 3830), Omata District, and secondly, 24.2 perches, more or less, and 24.8 perches, more or less, being parts Section 137 (Deposited Plan 4087), Omata District; being parts of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 144, folio 97, Taranaki Registry; as more particularly shown on Survey Office Plan 9934, lodged in the office of the Chief Surveyor at New Plymouth and thereon coloured blue.

Third Schedule

All that area in the Taranaki Land District and situated in the City of New Plymouth containing 15.6 perches, more or less, being part Section 137 (Deposited Plan 3830), Omata District; and being part of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 144, folio 101, Taranaki Registry; as more particularly shown on Survey Office Plan 9934, lodged in the Office of the Chief Surveyor at New Plymouth and thereon coloured sepia.

In witness whereof these presents have been executed the day and year first hereinbefore written.

Sealed with the common seal of the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of New Plymouth and signed by two members of the New Plymouth City Council on behalf of and by direction of the said Council in the presence of:
[Seal]

A G Honnor, Councillor
D J Little, Councillor

Sealed with the common seal of the Taranaki Harbours Board duly affixed by order of the Board and signed by two members of the Board for and on behalf of the Board pursuant to a resolution of the Board in the presence of:
[Seal]

J G Boddy, Secretary, New Plymouth
J H Boon, Member
H E Blyde, Member

Signed by the Minister of Housing in the presence of:

John Rae, Minister of Housing

Name: J R Stevenson
Address: 86 Bell Street, Linden
Occupation: public servant

Preamble, s 4(1)

All those pieces of land in the Taranaki Land District situated in the City of New Plymouth containing firstly 25 perches and four-tenths of a perch, more or less, being part Section 137 (Deposited Plan 3830), Omata District, and secondly, 24 perches and two-tenths of a perch, more or less, and 24 perches and eight-tenths of a perch, more or less, being parts Section 137 (Deposited Plan 4087), Omata District; being parts of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 144, folio 97, Taranaki Registry; as more particularly shown on Survey Office Plan 9934, lodged in the Office of the Chief Surveyor at New Plymouth and thereon coloured blue.

Preamble, s 4(2)

All that piece of land in the Taranaki Land District and situated in the City of New Plymouth containing 15 perches and six-tenths of a perch, more or less, being part Section 137 (Deposited Plan 3830), Omata District; and being part of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 144, folio 101, Taranaki Registry; as more particularly shown on Survey Office Plan 9934, lodged in the Office of the Chief Surveyor at New Plymouth and thereon coloured sepia.

s 4(2)

All that piece of land in the Taranaki Land District and situated in the City of New Plymouth containing 88 acres 3 roods 25 perches and one-tenth of a perch, more or less, being part Section 811, Grey District, and parts of Section 137 and L (Deposited Plan 3830), and those islands known as Motu-O-Tamatea, Pararaki, and Mataora (Deposited Plan 3830), and parts of Section 137 and A (Deposited Plan 4087), and stopped street, Omata District, part of the said lands being comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 144, folio 97, and Volume 144, folio 101, Taranaki Registry; as more particularly shown on Survey Office Plan 9978, lodged in the Office of the Chief Surveyor at New Plymouth and thereon edged red; all of which area is to be known hereafter as Section 181, Omata District.

s 7(1)

Paritutu Centennial Park Act 1938 (1938 No 2 (L))

Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Act 1956 (1956 No 53)

Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).

Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Act 1963 (1963 No 128)

Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).

1General
2Status of reprints
3How reprints are prepared
4Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989
5List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)

Notes

1 General

This is a reprint of the Paritutu Centennial Park Act 1968. The reprint incorporates all the amendments to the Act as at 22 September 1968, as specified in the list of amendments at the end of these notes.

Relevant provisions of any amending enactments that contain transitional, savings, or application provisions that cannot be compiled in the reprint are also included, after the principal enactment, in chronological order. For more information, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/reprints/ .

2 Status of reprints

Under section 16D of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by the amendments to that enactment. This presumption applies even though editorial changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in the reprint.

This presumption may be rebutted by producing the official volumes of statutes or statutory regulations in which the principal enactment and its amendments are contained.

3 How reprints are prepared

A number of editorial conventions are followed in the preparation of reprints. For example, the enacting words are not included in Acts, and provisions that are repealed or revoked are omitted. For a detailed list of the editorial conventions, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/ or Part 8 of the Tables of New Zealand Acts and Ordinances and Statutory Regulations and Deemed Regulations in Force.

4 Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989

Section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 authorises the making of editorial changes in a reprint as set out in sections 17D and 17E of that Act so that, to the extent permitted, the format and style of the reprinted enactment is consistent with current legislative drafting practice. Changes that would alter the effect of the legislation are not permitted.

A new format of legislation was introduced on 1 January 2000. Changes to legislative drafting style have also been made since 1997, and are ongoing. To the extent permitted by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, all legislation reprinted after 1 January 2000 is in the new format for legislation and reflects current drafting practice at the time of the reprint.

In outline, the editorial changes made in reprints under the authority of section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 are set out below, and they have been applied, where relevant, in the preparation of this reprint:
- •omission of unnecessary referential words (such as “of this section” and “of this Act”)
- •typeface and type size (Times Roman, generally in 11.5 point)
- •layout of provisions, including:
  - •indentation
  - •position of section headings (eg, the number and heading now appear above the section)
- •format of definitions (eg, the defined term now appears in bold type, without quotation marks)
- •format of dates (eg, a date formerly expressed as “the 1st day of January 1999” is now expressed as “1 January 1999”)
- •position of the date of assent (it now appears on the front page of each Act)
- •punctuation (eg, colons are not used after definitions)
- •Parts numbered with roman numerals are replaced with arabic numerals, and all cross-references are changed accordingly
- •case and appearance of letters and words, including:
  - •format of headings (eg, headings where each word formerly appeared with an initial capital letter followed by small capital letters are amended so that the heading appears in bold, with only the first word (and any proper nouns) appearing with an initial capital letter)
  - •small capital letters in section and subsection references are now capital letters
- •schedules are renumbered (eg, Schedule 1 replaces First Schedule), and all cross-references are changed accordingly
- •running heads (the information that appears at the top of each page)
- •format of two-column schedules of consequential amendments, and schedules of repeals (eg, they are rearranged into alphabetical order, rather than chronological).

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