This Act may be cited as the Hamilton Domains Act, 1911.

The Governor may, with the written consent of the Hamilton Domain Board, lease in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the King all or any portion of the lands within the Borough of Hamilton described in the First Schedule hereto and being a public domain under Part II of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.

The provisions of the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908, shall apply to all leases granted under this section, and the Governor is hereby declared, with respect to the said lands, to be a leasing authority within the meaning of that Act.

A lessee under this section, or any person claiming through or under a lessee, shall have the same right of relief against re-entry or forfeiture as if the lessor were a person other than the Crown.

All revenues received from any land so leased shall be applied in accordance with Part II of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.

All restrictions and limitations imposed upon the leasing of the lands described in the First Schedule hereto by any Act or instrument other than the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908, are hereby removed.

The Governor may, with the written consent of the Hamilton Domain Board, lease in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the King all or any portion of the lands within the Borough of Hamilton mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto and being a public domain under Part II of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.

The provisions of Part II of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, shall apply to all leases granted under this section.

If at the expiration of any lease heretofore granted of any of the said lands the lease is renewed for any term not exceeding fourteen years, or the land is relet to any other person, the lessee shall be entitled to remove all buildings erected by him on the land.

The reservation of the lands described in the Third Schedule hereto for public recreation is hereby cancelled, and the said lands are hereby vested in the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Hamilton for an estate in fee-simple, without power of sale, as a municipal endowment or for municipal purposes.

In consideration of the transfer to the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Hamilton of the lands mentioned in the Third Schedule hereto, the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Hamilton shall pay to the Hamilton Domain Board within twelve months of the commencement of this Act the sum of two thousand pounds, and shall also release the Hamilton Domain Board from the payment of all moneys owing by the Hamilton Domain Board to the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Hamilton on the commencement of this Act. All moneys so paid by the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Hamilton to the Hamilton Domain Board shall be expended by the Hamilton Domain Board in the purchase of freehold lands or in permanent improvements to domain lands within the Borough of Hamilton.

An entry made on the first day of October, nineteen hundred and seven, in the books of the Hamilton Borough Council giving credit to the Hamilton Domain Board for the sum of nine hundred and fifty pounds, being the value of certain land acquired by the said Council from the said Board for the purposes of municipal sale-yards (which sum is taken into account and allowed for in fixing the amount due on the commencement of this Act for moneys advanced by the said Council to the said Board) shall be and the same is hereby validated.

The Hamilton Domains Empowering Act, 1894, is hereby repealed.