New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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| Private Act | 1964 No 3 |
| Date of assent | 13 November 1964 |
An Act to close the burial ground on the grounds of St John's Anglican Church, Johnsonville, in the City of Wellington; and to empower The Wellington Diocesan Board of Trustees to remove all headstones, monuments, and grave surrounds, to level and plant the ground, and to erect a monument common to all persons interred in the said burial ground
WHEREAS The Wellington Diocesan Board of Trustees, a body incorporated pursuant to the provisions of The Charitable Trusts Act 1957, 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: 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: