This Act may be cited as the Public Reserves and Domains Amendment Act, 1914, and shall form part of and be read together with the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

This Act shall commence on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and fifteen.

In the case of any public reserve vested in His Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes comprised in Class I or in Class II of the Second Schedule to the principal Act, the Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, vest the control or management of the reserve or of any part thereof in any local authority, or in any special Board constituted by him for the purpose, with such powers and subject to such conditions and restrictions as may be specified in the Order.

An Order in Council under this section shall take effect according to the tenor thereof, and may at any time be in like manner amended or revoked.

Section four of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding to paragraph (b) the following words: “The local body or Trustees in whom any reserve or part thereof is vested pursuant to this paragraph or the corresponding provisions of any former Act may at any time thereafter, if they think fit, transfer the whole or any part of the land so vested in them to the Crown, subject to the trusts affecting the same.”

In any case where a certificate of title has not issued to the local body or Trustees in whom any reserve or part thereof has been vested pursuant to paragraph (b) of the said section four or the corresponding provisions of any former Act, the Order in Council vesting the said reserve or part thereof may, with the consent of the local body or Trustees, be in like manner revoked, either as to the whole or any part of the land so vested, and thereupon the land in respect of which the Order in Council is revoked shall be deemed to be vested in the Crown, subject to the trusts affecting the same.

The Second Schedule to the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting the words “Public halls” before the words “Public pounds” in Class I; and by omitting the words “Police-stations and purposes” in the same class, and inserting them after the word “Museums” in Class II.