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Palmerston North Hospital Land Sales Validation Act 1891

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Validation of land sales by the Borough Council of Palmerston North.

Palmerston North Hospital Land Sales Validation Act 1891

Local Act		1891 No 14
Date of assent		21 September 1891

	Title
	Preamble
1	Short Title.
2	Interpretation.
3	Validation of land sales by the Borough Council of Palmerston North.

An Act to validate certain Sales of Land made by the Borough Council of Palmerston North under “The Special Powers and Contracts Act, 1885.”

Preamble

WHEREAS by “The Special Powers and Contracts Act, 1885,” it is provided, under clause twenty-nine of the second column of the First Schedule to the said Act, that the Governor may, by notice in the Gazette, authorise the Borough Council of Palmerston North to sell by public auction, after not less than three months’ public notice in the land district, certain lands in the said Act specified: And whereas the Governor duly authorised the said Borough Council to sell the aforesaid lands, and notice of such authorisation was published in the Gazette of the third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five; but the said Borough Council sold the said lands, or certain parts thereof, by public auction without giving the prescribed three months’ public notice in the land district: And whereas it is expedient to validate the sales of the said lands so made as aforesaid:

Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Short Title.

The Short Title of this Act is “The Palmerston North Hospital Land Sales Validation Act, 1891.”

2 Interpretation.

“The said Act” means “The Special Powers and Contracts Act, 1885.”

3 Validation of land sales by the Borough Council of Palmerston North.

All sales of land by the Borough Council of Palmerston North under the provisions of the said Act, or purporting so to be, shall be as valid, effectual, and binding on the respective parties thereto as if the three months’ public notice in the land district prescribed by the said Act had been duly given prior to such sales; and all the provisions of the said Act relating to clause twenty-nine to the First Schedule thereof, and all the provisions of the said clause twenty-nine, other than the giving of the said three months’ public notice in the land district, shall apply to such sales as if the said notice had been duly made and given.

No action or proceeding shall be brought, instituted, or be sustainable against the said Borough Council or the Corporation of the Borough of Palmerston North, or against any person acting under the said Council’s instructions, by reason only that no notice of the sale of the said lands, or of any part thereof, was given in the manner prescribed by the said Act.

Palmerston North Hospital Land Sales Validation Act 1891