• Preamble

  WHEREAS the lands described in the Schedule hereto were conveyed by deed dated the twenty-fourth day of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven (registered number 10737), to Christ's College (Canterbury) pursuant to the powers contained in the Canterbury Association Reserves Ordinance, Session V, Number 2 (1855), of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the late Province of Canterbury (intituled Christ's College Ordinance), in trust for a site for the said College and for grounds attached thereto, but with the proviso that if the said piece of land should not be occupied for the purpose aforesaid within three years from the passing of the said Canterbury Association Reserves Ordinance, or should it at any time thereafter cease to be so occupied, the said piece of land, with the appurtenances, should revert to the Superintendent of the said Province of Canterbury for the time being as though such grant had not been made or issued, and should thereafter constitute a part of the Government Domain of the said province: And whereas the said lands have since the twenty-third day of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, been in the occupation of Christ's College (Canterbury), and large sums of money have been expended upon the erection of buildings thereon: And whereas it is desirable that the said lands should be vested in Christ's College (Canterbury) freed from any restrictions or reservations:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—