Notwithstanding anything contained in the Local Government Act 1974, or in any other Act, the Tahunanui Town Board may for the purpose of providing more direct access from Rocks Road to Edward Street for foot-passengers accept a transfer by way of gift from Edward Austin Herbert Bisley, Ethel Lois Maxwell, and Doris Kathleen Houlker of all that parcel of land containing 30.1 perches, more or less, being the strips of land 15.15 links wide, being more particularly shown as rights-of-way on the plan numbered 1413, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Nelson, and being part of Section 1, Suburban South, in Block IV, Waimea Survey District, and being part of the land in Certificate of Title, Volume 53, folio 229, Nelson Registry; subject to an agreement as to fencing contained in Transfer No 18883; and subject to Order in Council No 605; and subject to grants of right-of-way appurtenant to the land in Certificate of Title, Volume 51, folio 299, Nelson Registry, granted by Transfer No 23066; and subject to grant of right-of-way appurtenant to Lots 51 and 52 on the said plan numbered 1413 granted by Transfer 21321, such parcel of land being hereinafter referred to as the said land and being more particularly delineated on plan marked PWD No 123839 deposited in the office of Public Works Department at Wellington, and thereon coloured pink.
A reference to the Municipal Corporations Act 1954 was substituted, as from 1 April 1955, for a reference to the Municipal Corporations Act 1933 pursuant to section 413 Municipal Corporations Act 1954 (1954 No 76). That reference was in turn substituted, as from 1 April 1980, by a reference to the Local Government Act 1974 pursuant to section 9(1) Local Government Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 59).