Whereas the Cheviot County Council (in this section referred to as the Council) is registered as the proprietor of an estate in fee-simple in all that parcel of land situated in the Town of Mackenzie, containing by admeasurement two roods, more or less, being Sections 14 and 15, Block 28, of the said Town of Mackenzie, and being the whole of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 365, folio 276, Christchurch Registry: And whereas a dwellinghouse has been erected on the said parcel of land by the Council for the purpose of being used as a medical practitioner's residence: And whereas on the thirtieth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-one, the Council granted to the medical practitioner for the time being practising in the Town of Cheviot the right to use and occupy the said land and dwellinghouse free of all rent and other outgoings: And whereas doubts have arisen as to the validity of the action of the Council in so doing: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The action of the Council in granting the use and occupation of the said land and dwellinghouse free of rent and other outgoings as from the thirtieth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-one, is hereby validated, and the Council is hereby empowered to continue to allow any medical practitioner for the time being practising in the Town of Cheviot to use and occupy the said land and dwellinghouse free of rent and other outgoings until the expiration of four years from the termination of the present war or during such shorter period as the Council may think advisable.