“1A

• In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, Council means the Napier City Council as constituted by clause 52 of the Local Government (Hawke's Bay Region) Reorganisation Order 1989 (Gazette, 1989, Volume III, page 2334).”

• “(2) May lease the land in accordance with the Public Bodies Leases Act 1969.”

“4A

• “(1) This section applies to any land described in Schedule 3 that is vested in the Council.

  “(2) Subsections (1) to (7) of section 230 of the Local Government Act 1974 apply to any land to which this section applies.

  “(3) For so long as—

  • “(a) Any land to which this section applies is leased by the Council; and

  • “(b) There is erected on it a building that, in the opinion of the Council (whose decision is final) is designed for residential purposes and occupied exclusively as a home by the lessee and the lessee's family (if any),—

  “the Council must not sell the land to any person other than the lessee.

  “(4) A lessee from the Council of any land to which this section applies who buys it from the Council must, at the lessee's own cost and to the Council's satisfaction, arrange for the registration of the effective merger of the leasehold interest in the fee simple of the land, or otherwise for the effective extinguishment of the leasehold interest.

  “(5) Subsection (2)—

  • “(a) Is subject to subsection (3); but

  • “(b) Overrides section 230(8) of the Local Government Act 1974.”