The Short Title of this Act shall be the “Auckland Waste Lands Acts Amendment Act 1863.”

Whereas by the “Auckland Waste Lands Act Amendment Act 1862” it was enacted that sections 71 72 77 78 and 79 of the “Auckland Waste Lands Act 1858” should be amended by substituting in each of the said sections respectively the word “three” for the word “five” and the said sections should be read and construed as if the word “three” had been inserted therein in each part thereof instead of the word “five” and it is expedient to amend the said provisions Be it therefore enacted that all persons who may hold land orders under the provisions of the “Auckland Waste Lands Act 1858” granted to them previous to the passing of the “Auckland Waste Lands Act Amendment Act 1862” who have resided or who may reside in the Province of Auckland for a period exceeding three years without having selected land shall be entitled to select the same according to the provisions of the “Auckland Waste Lands Act 1858” and shall enjoy all the rights and privileges conferred by the said Act anything in the “Auckland Waste Lands Act Amendment Act 1862” to the contrary notwithstanding.

And whereas one Thomas Ball Esquire now residing at Mongonui in the said Province of Auckland immigrated to the said Province in or about the month of September in the year 1859 with a large body of Immigrants holding Special Settlement Orders under the “Waste Lands Act 1858” and the Provincial Government of the Province of Auckland in order to make immediate provision for the accommodation of the immigrants permitted the occupation of a portion of a certain block or piece of land known by the name of Butler’s Island and arranged that it should be included in a certain other block of land known as the Kohumaru Block proclaimed and set apart for the exercise of the said Orders and it is expedient to enable the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland to carry out that arrangement Be it therefore enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of the said Province of Auckland to proclaim that the said block or piece of land known as Butler’s Island or such part thereof as he the said Superintendent shall think fit shall be set apart and declared to be included in the said block of land proclaimed and set apart for the said Thomas Ball and the said Immigrants.

This Act shall not come into operation until Her Majesty’s pleasure shall have been taken thereon and the same shall have been confirmed by Her Majesty with the advice of Her Privy Council and a Proclamation of such confirmation having been given shall have been made by the Governor or person administering the Government of New Zealand.