This Act may be cited as the Otago Harbour Board Empowering Act, 1911.

In this Act the Board means the Otago Harbour Board.

It shall be lawful for the Board to grant to the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of West Harbour and its assigns a lease of part of the lands described or referred to in the Schedule hereto alone, or with part of any adjoining lands hereafter vested in the Board, not exceeding a total area of six acres and two roods. Such lease may be granted subject or not subject to the payment of rent for a term not exceeding fifty years, and for such purposes, with such powers, and with, upon, and subject to such terms and conditions, as the Board shall think proper; and the said Corporation may exercise all the rights and powers conferred by such lease notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act.

For the purpose of compensating any person possessed of lands under lease or tenancy from the Board for lands so held taken, or which may be taken, by His Majesty the King or the Minister of Railways in connection with the deviation of the railway-line between Dunedin and Ravensbourne, or any part or parts of such line, it shall be lawful for the Board to grant to such person a lease of other lands vested in the Board for a term not exceeding the unexpired residue of the term of the existing lease or tenancy, and with, upon, and subject to terms and conditions similar to those of such existing lease or tenancy, but so that it shall not be obligatory to require the payment of any further or other rent for the land leased by virtue of this section; and for the purpose aforesaid the Board may accept a surrender of such existing lease or tenancy and include in such new lease the lands remaining vested in the lessee or tenant.

It shall be lawful for the Board to grant to the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Dunedin and its assigns for any purpose of public utility or otherwise for the benefit of the inhabitants of the City of Dunedin, or the public generally, or any section thereof respectively, a lease of any lands now or hereafter vested in the Board (whether reclaimed from the sea or not) subject or not subject to the payment of any rent, and for such period, with such powers, and with, upon, and subject to such terms and conditions, as the Board shall think fit; and the Corporation may exercise all the rights and powers conferred by such lease notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act.

Section three of the Otago Harbour Board Empowering Act 1893, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the words “so far as regards such buildings and improvements, but all or any of such provisions may be included in such lease with reference to any buildings or improvements thereafter erected on the land comprised therein.”

This Act shall be deemed to be a special Act within the meaning of The Harbours Act 1950.