215 Orders in Council relating to transfer of assets and liabilities
  • (1) For the purpose of facilitating the transfer of assets and liabilities to an institution pursuant to section 206, the Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, do any 1 or more of the following:

    • (a) vest in or impose on an institution any asset or liability (other than land to which section 207(1) applies), or any class of any such asset or liability, that the institution has agreed to have transferred to it:

    • (c) declare that a reference to the Crown or a Minister, officer, employee, department, or instrument of the Crown in any or all regulations, orders, notices, or documents shall be deemed to be or to include a reference to an institution specified in the order:

    • (d) declare that an institution shall assume or continue to have the rights and obligations of the Crown or a Minister, officer, employee, department, or instrument of the Crown in respect of applications for rights, objections, or proceedings before any court, authority, or other person, being rights and obligations that the institution has agreed to assume:

    • (e) declare that sections 294 to 294I of the Local Government Act 1974 (which relate to reserve contributions, development levies, and contributions to certain regional works) shall not apply to specified developments, being developments that the Minister has agreed to transfer to an institution pursuant to section 206:

    • (f) declare, in respect of any assets or liabilities transferred to an institution pursuant to section 206, that the institution shall be deemed to have specified rights or obligations in respect of those assets or liabilities, being rights or obligations that are required in respect of those assets or liabilities as a result of the change of ownership or responsibility from the Crown to the institution:

    • (g) declare that any Order in Council made under this section shall be deemed to be notice to all persons, and that specific notice need not be given to any authority or other person:

    • (h) direct any authority or other person to register or record any such vesting or declaration.

    (2) Every Order in Council made under this section may be made on such terms and conditions as the Governor-General thinks fit, and shall have effect according to its tenor.

    Section 215: added, on 1 January 1991, by section 37 of the Education Amendment Act 1990 (1990 No 60).