An Act to validate a certain Deed of Lease registered in the Deeds Register Office at Dunedin as Number 151200 and granted in the Year Nineteen hundred and twenty-four by the Managers of the Saint Paul's Presbyterian Congregation, Oamaru, incorporated pursuant to Section Fourteen of the Presbyterian Church of Otago Incorporation Act 1875 [Repealed], to one Robert Brown, of Oamaru, Draper.

Preamble

WHEREAS by a certain deed of lease bearing date the eighteenth day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, and registered in the Deeds Register Office at Dunedin as Number 151200, the Managers of the Saint Paul's Presbyterian Congregation, Oamaru, incorporated pursuant to section fourteen of the Presbyterian Church of Otago Act 1875 [Repealed], and hereinafter in this Act referred to as the said Managers, leased to Robert Brown, of Oamaru, draper, part of Section 14, Block V, on the Record Map of the Town of Oamaru, of an area of thirty-seven perches and six one-hundredths of a perch, for the term of twenty-one years from the sixteenth day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-four: And whereas by such deed of lease it is provided that before the expiration of the term thereby granted a new lease on the same conditions for a like term of twenty-one years shall be put up for public auction in manner therein provided, with provision in certain events for payment of compensation for improvements upon a valuation as in the said deed is mentioned: And whereas doubts have arisen as to the validity of the said deed of lease and it is desirable that such doubts should be removed:

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

This Act may be cited as the Managers of the Saint Paul's Presbyterian Congregation (Oamaru) Act 1930.

2 Lease already entered into to be deemed valid

The said deed of lease of the eighteenth day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, and registered in the Deeds Register Office at Dunedin as Number 151200, shall be deemed to be and to have been valid on the commencement and the date of the execution of the said lease; and the granting of and entering into the same, and the provisions as to valuation, and the covenants therein contained on the part of the said Managers to offer the new lease for public auction on the expiration of the said deed of lease Registered Number 151200 shall be deemed to have been and be within the powers of the said Managers.

3 Power to grant future leases on same terms

The said Managers are hereby authorized and empowered to grant from time to time as occasion may require all such further or other leases of the lands demised by the said deed of lease Registered Number 151200 (or any part or parts thereof) in the form or to the same effect as the said deed of lease Registered Number 151200, and to perform and execute all such acts, deeds, instruments, and things as shall be required for giving effect to the covenants and provisions contained in the said deed of lease Registered Number 151200, or any other lease or leases granted by them pursuant to the powers conferred on them by this Act.

4 Private Act

This Act is hereby declared to be a private Act.

Managers of the Saint Paul's Presbyterian Congregation (Oamaru) Act 1930