Whereas section fourteen of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal Act 1934, cancelled the reservation over certain reserves in the Fendalton Riding of the Waimairi County, and declared such lands to be Crown land available for disposal by way of sale for cash under the Land Act 1924, but subject to the special provisions set forth in subsection two of the said section fourteen for the disposition of the proceeds from any sale of such lands: And whereas by Proclamation published in the Gazette of the fourteenth day of November, nineteen hundred and forty, Reserve 4196, Block X, Christchurch Survey District, containing an area of three roods nine perches and six-tenths of a perch, and being portion of the lands hereinbefore referred to, was declared to be set apart for the purposes of Part 1 of the Housing Act 1919: And whereas in respect of such transaction the sum of one thousand five hundred and sixty dollars was on the seventh day of November, nineteen hundred and forty, paid out of the Land for Settlements Account to the Waimairi County Council, such payment purporting to be made under the authority of the said subsection two of section fourteen of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal Act 1934: And whereas doubts have arisen as to whether the setting-apart of such land for housing purposes was a sale of land, and whether such payment was lawfully made: And whereas it is desirable that such doubts should be removed: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The setting-apart of Reserve 4196, Block X, Christchurch Survey District, for the purposes of Part 1 of the Housing Act 1919, by the Proclamation published in the Gazette of the fourteenth day of November, nineteen hundred and forty, shall, for the purposes of section fourteen of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal Act 1934, be deemed to have been a sale of land, and the aforesaid payment of the sum of one thousand five hundred and sixty dollars to the Waimairi County Council is hereby validated and declared to have been lawfully made to and received by the said Council.