Whereas the land hereinafter described is a scenic reserve subject to the provisions of the Reserves Act 1977: And whereas the said land is of little scenic value and can be more efficiently administered as a public domain, and it is desirable that it should cease to be a scenic reserve: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, the reservation for scenic purposes over the land hereinafter described is hereby cancelled, and the said land is hereby declared to be a recreation reserve and to be set apart under Part 2 of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928, as an addition to the Beachlands Domain under and subject to the control of the Beachlands Domain Board
(2) The land to which this section relates is more particularly described as follows:—
All that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement fourteen acres, more or less, being Section 1, Block IV, Otahuhu Survey District, and known as Motukaraka Island, bounded on all sides by the Tamaki Strait: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L and S 170, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.
The Scenery Preservation Act 1908 was repealed, as from 1 April 1954, by section 107(1) Reserves and Domains Act 1953 (1953 No 69). That Act was in turn repealed, as from 1 April 1978, by section 125(1) Reserves Act 1977 (1977 No 66).