New Zealand Legislation: Acts

28 Particular estates in land may be acquired or taken

• The power conferred by this or any other Act to acquire or take land for a public work shall include the power—

  • (a) to acquire or take and to hold the land subject to any particular estate, interest, easement, profit à prendre, covenant, or encumbrance, whether for the time being subsisting or not:

  • (b) to acquire or take and to hold separately—

    • (i) any particular estate or interest in the land, whether for the time being subsisting separately or not; or

    • (ii) any easement or profit à prendre over the land, whether for the time being subsisting or not.

  Compare: 1939 No 39 s 62(1)