(1) Where any administering body that is a territorial authority has, before the 1st day of January 1980 been appointed to control and manage any reserve classified under section 16 (whether before or after the 1st day of January 1980) as a recreation reserve or local purpose reserve, that reserve shall, without further authority than this section, vest in that administering body.
(2) All land so vested shall be held in trust for the purpose or purposes for which the reserve is classified.
(3) Where any such administering body wishes to have a certificate of title issued to it in respect of any reserve vested in that administering body pursuant to subsection (1), the administering body shall, if the District Land Registrar so requests, provide the District Land Registrar with such evidence as he may require of the classification of that reserve and the appointment of that administering body to control and manage that reserve.
Section 26A: inserted, on 1 January 1980, by section 11 of the Reserves Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 63).