New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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| Private Act | 1949 No 2 |
| Date of assent | 20 October 1949 |
An Act to Authorize the Presbyterian Church Property Trustees, Duly Incorporated Under The Presbyterian Church Property Act 1885, and the Amendments Thereof, to Remove all Headstones, Monuments, and Grave Surrounds Erected in the Cemetery on the Grounds of Knox Presbyterian Church Situate in High Street in the City of Lower Hutt, to Level and Plant the Ground so Affected, and to Erect a Monument Common to all Persons Interred in the Said Cemetery.
WHEREAS the Presbyterian Church Property Trustees, a body incorporated under the provisions of The Presbyterian Church Property Act 1885, and the amendments thereof, is registered as the proprietor of an estate in fee-simple in all that piece of land more particularly hereinafter described: And whereas the said piece of land has been used as a burial-ground, but no interment of human remains has taken place therein since nineteen hundred and thirteen, and no further interments are likely to take place therein: And whereas the trustees have experienced difficulty in keeping the said piece of land and the headstones, monuments, and grave surrounds thereon in a neat and tidy condition: And whereas it is expedient that the said headstones, monuments, and grave surrounds should be removed and the said piece of land levelled and laid out in lawns with ornamental trees and shrubs: And whereas the trustees have no power without legislation to give effect to their wishes:
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
