The Short Title of this Act is “The Egmont National Park Act, 1901”; and it shall form part of and be read together with “The Egmont National Park Act, 1900” (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Act”).

2 Power to issue certain licenses.

(1.)

Notwithstanding anything in the principal Act, it shall be lawful for the Board to issue licenses for all or any of the purposes following, that is to say,—

(a.)

To cut and remove dead timber only;

(b.)

To win and remove stone or gravel for ballast or for metalling roads;

(c.)

To construct and use tramways for the removal of any such timber, ballast, or road-materials.

By-laws.

(2.)

The Board may from time to time make by-laws under the principal Act prescribing—

(d.)

The form of such licenses;

(e.)

The conditions under which such licenses shall be issued; and

(f.)

The fees payable on any such license.

3 Minister for Railways may quarry stone.

The Minister for Railways may win and remove stone for ballast, building-stone, and stone for protection-works and other railway purposes from such part of the Egmont National Park as may be agreed on between the said Minister and the Board, and may construct and work a line of railway to that part of the said park for the purpose of such removal.

4 Board may lease certain land.

The Board may lease the open land described in the Schedule to occupiers of land adjoining such aforesaid land for any period not exceeding twenty-one years, and upon such other terms as to area, rent, occupation, and improvement as the Board, with the consent of the Governor, may think fit.

Schedule

All that portion of land in the Oakura District, being 300 acres, more or less, consisting of part of Section 170 and Sections 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30 on the map of the said district.

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