• Preamble

  WHEREAS leases of lands now belonging to or vested in the Corporation of the Mayor, Councillors, and citizens of the City of Dunedin have been heretofore granted by the Superintendent of the Province of Otago and by the said Corporation respectively which or some of which contain such or similar provisions for valuation of buildings and renewal of leases as or to those which are set out in the Schedule hereto or some of them: And whereas doubts have arisen as to whether such leases or some of them are not invalid, and it is expedient to remove such doubts, and to extend the leasing powers of the said Corporation in manner hereinafter mentioned:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—