This Act is the Auckland Domain (Auckland Tennis) Amendment Act 2008.

This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent.

This Act amends the Auckland Domain Act 1987.

The purpose of this Act is—

• (a) to update the reference to Auckland Lawn Tennis Association (Incorporated) to Auckland Tennis Incorporated; and

• (b) to extend the term of lease Auckland City Council is empowered to grant to Auckland Tennis Incorporated from 21 years up to 50 years and to provide Auckland City Council with the ability to permit Auckland Tennis Incorporated to grant a sublease over the land it leases from Auckland City Council; and

• (c) to amend the legal description of the land that may be leased to Auckland Tennis Incorporated described in section 6 of the Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Act 1974.

(1) Section 7(1) is amended by omitting paragraph (b) and substituting the following paragraph:

(2) Section 7(2) is amended by omitting “subsection (1)” and substituting “subsection (1)(a), (c), (d), and (e)”.

(3) Section 7 is amended by inserting the following subsection after subsection (2):

Section 6 of the Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Act 1974 is amended by—

• (a) omitting “firstly, secondly, and thirdly” from the Preamble; and

• (b) omitting “And whereas pursuant to section 8 of the Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Act 1950 the Corporation leased the land secondly described in subsection (3) of this section to the Auckland Lawn Tennis Association (Incorporated) for a term that expired on the 30th day of November 1972: And whereas it is desirable to empower the Corporation to grant a lease of the land to the said Association for a further term not exceeding 21 years, the term (if the Corporation so decides) to be deemed to have commenced on the first day of December 1972:” from the Preamble; and

• (c) repealing subsection (1)(b); and

• (d) omitting the words “Secondly, all those parcels of land situated in the North Auckland Land District, containing 5615 square metres, more or less, and 6753 square metres, more or less, being situated in Block VIII, Rangitoto Survey District, and being parts of the Auckland Domain, parts Section 98 and parts Allotment 1 of Section 98, Suburbs of Auckland, and being the land more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 1/550 deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey at Wellington, and thereon edged red (SO 36189).” from subsection (3).

The principal Act is amended by inserting the Schedule 1A set out in the Schedule of this Act.