New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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| Public Act | 1885 No 52 |
| Date of assent | 22 September 1885 |
An Act to authorize Her Majesty to purchase certain Railways within the Dominion constructed under the District Railways Acts and the Railways Construction and Land Acts.
The reference to “Dominion”
was substituted, as from 26 September 1907, for a reference to “Colony”
by Proclamation. See Gazette 1907, p 2837.
WHEREAS on the thirtieth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, the House of Representatives resolved, “That the Government be requested to come to the best arrangements they can with the district railway companies with a view to the acquisition of the lines by the colony; such arrangements to be subject to the ratification of Parliament:”
And whereas the companies owners of the railways mentioned in the Schedule to this Act are desirous of selling their railways to the Government of New Zealand: And whereas it is expedient that the Governor should be empowered on behalf of Her Majesty to purchase the said railways in the manner provided by this Act, and on the terms contained in a certain provisional agreement and certain draft agreements setting forth the proposed conditions of sale and purchase, copies whereof have been presented to Parliament in its present session, and are included in a Parliamentary Paper lettered 1885, D No 5B.
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
