Otago University Reserves Act 1904

Otago University Reserves Act 1904

Public Act1904 No 59
Date of assent8 November 1904

An Act to make Better Provision for the Control of certain Reserves now vested in the Council of the University of Otago.

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

1 Short Title

  • The Short Title of this Act is the Otago University Reserves Act 1904.

2 Control of Otago University reserves to be vested in Land Board

  • (1) From and after the passing of this Act all endowment reserves vested in or under the control of the Council of the University of Otago (other than reserves situate in the City of Dunedin) shall be subject to the provisions of the Land Act 1892, and may be disposed of by way of lease under that Act by the Land Board of the district wherein they are situate.

    (2) The provisions of Part 7 of the Land Act 1892, relating to licenses for cutting, felling, or removing timber, and the cutting or removing flax, shall extend and apply to all such reserves.

    (3) Nothing herein shall affect any existing lease or the rights of any person thereunder: Provided that the rent reserved by any such lease shall (as from the day fixed by the lease for the payment of rent occurring next after the passing of this Act) be payable to the Receiver of Land Revenue, whose receipt shall be a sufficient discharge to the tenant for the same.

3 Present rentals to be paid to Council

  • [Repealed]

    Sections 3, 4, 5, and the proviso to section 6, were repealed, as from 31 October 1917, by section 118(3) Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1917 (1917 No 26).

4 Payment if rent received decreases below present rental

  • [Repealed]

    Sections 3, 4, 5, and the proviso to section 6, were repealed, as from 31 October 1917, by section 118(3) Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1917 (1917 No 26).

5 Disposal of excess rental

  • [Repealed]

    Sections 3, 4, 5, and the proviso to section 6, were repealed, as from 31 October 1917, by section 118(3) Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1917 (1917 No 26).

6 Payment of Valuation for improvements under existing leases

  • Where under any existing lease any sum is payable by the Council to an outgoing tenant as valuation for improvements such sum shall, without further appropriation than this Act, be paid by the Colonial Treasurer out of the ordinary land revenues, and the amount so paid shall be repaid by the incoming tenant or tenants in the manner provided by The Land Act 1892:

    Sections 3, 4, 5, and the proviso to section 6, were repealed, as from 31 October 1917, by section 118(3) Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1917 (1917 No 26).