(1) The Short Title of this Act is the Tourist and Health Resorts Control Act 1908.

(2) This Act is a consolidation of the enactments mentioned in Schedule 1, and with respect to those enactments the following provisions shall apply:

• (a) all regulations, rules, bylaws, Orders in Council, orders, licences, leases, records, instruments, and generally all acts of authority which originated under those enactments, and are subsisting or in force on the coming into operation of this Act, shall enure for the purposes of this Act as fully and effectually as if they had originated under the corresponding provisions of this Act, and accordingly shall, where necessary, be deemed to have so originated:

• (b) all matters and proceedings commenced under those enactments, and pending or in progress on the coming into operation of this Act, may be continued, completed, and enforced under this Act.

In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context,—

The expenses incident to the administration of this Act shall be defrayed out of sums to be from time to time appropriated by Parliament for that purpose.

The control of any of the reserves generally described in Schedule 2 hereto, or of any reserve brought under this Act, may from time to time, by Order in Council published in the Gazette, be vested in the Minister, and shall be administered under this Act.

The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council published in the Gazette, bring under this Act any reserve now or at any time hereafter made or administered under the Reserves Act 1977, the Thermal Springs Districts Act 1908, the Forests Act 1949, the Land Act 1948, or the Queenstown Reserves Act 1905, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in those Acts, and such reserve shall thereafter be administered under this Act:

Provided that no such Order in Council shall affect any reserve vested in any local authority, Harbour Board, or Domain Board without its consent.

All money received in respect of reserves brought under the provisions of this Act shall be paid into the Public Account and form part of the Consolidated Account.

The provisions of sections 27, 51, 53, 83, 84, 91, and 94 of the Reserves and Domains Act 1953 shall, mutatis mutandis, extend and apply to all reserves administered under this Act:

Provided that all references therein to the Commissioner of Crown Lands shall be deemed to be references to the Secretary.

The Minister may from time to time—

• (a) grant the exclusive use of any such reserve, or any part thereof, on any days not exceeding 10 in any year, but not for more than 3 days consecutively at any time, to any person, body, or society (corporate or not) for the purpose of particular sports, games, or other recreation, with authority for such person, body, or society to demand a fee or charge for admission on such day or days to the reserve or part thereof so granted, but not in any case exceeding for each day 1 shilling for each person, with an extra shilling for every horse or vehicle which he may desire to take with him, unless such person desires to obtain admission to the stand hereinafter mentioned, in which case an additional fee or charge not exceeding 10 shillings may be imposed prior to his obtaining admission to such stand:

• (b) erect, or authorise any person, body, or society (corporate or not) to erect, upon some portion of the reserve buildings for ornamental purposes, or a stand or pavilion, upon such terms as to plans, size, situation, custody, and otherwise in all respects as the Minister determines; and may appoint the mode and price of admission to any such stand or pavilion on any of the days hereinbefore mentioned:

• (c) prescribe the games which shall be permitted to be played in the reserve or any part thereof, and regulate the use of the reserve for such games; and may prohibit the playing of any games at times when the reserve would be thereby damaged, and prohibit altogether the playing of any particular game therein:

• (d) make regulations for the proper administration of any such reserve:

• (e) grant to any person, body, or society to whom such exclusive use may have been granted, during the days on which a charge of admission to such reserve may lawfully be made, the right to exclude, remove from, and summarily eject from such reserve any person or class of persons whom such controlling person, body, or society in its absolute discretion thinks undesirable:

• (f) notwithstanding section 184(2)(n) of the Land Act 1948, fix fees and charges for all or any of the following matters:

  • (i) the use of any bath on any reserve administered under this Act:

  • (ii) the playing of any game on any such reserve:

  • (iii) board and accommodation provided at any hostel on any such reserve:

  • (iv) admission of persons and vehicles to any such reserve:

  • (v) the services of guides and the use of any equipment supplied by the Minister for use by visitors to any such reserve:

  • (vi) the hire of launches under the control of the Minister.

All fines under this Act shall be paid into the Public Account and form part of the Consolidated Account.