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Land Amendment Act 1952

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Short Title. 1948, No. 64

Additional land acquired by lessee or licensee may be incorporated in existing lease or licence.

Amending provisions as to rates payable under temporary tenancies.

Amending provisions as to aggregation of land.

Land Amendment Act 1952

Public Act		1952 No 46
Date of assent		22 October 1952

	Title
1	Short Title. 1948, No. 64
2	Additional land acquired by lessee or licensee may be incorporated in existing lease or licence.
3	Amending provisions as to rates payable under temporary tenancies.
4	Amending provisions as to aggregation of land.

An Act to amend the Land Act 1948.

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

1 Short Title. 1948, No. 64

This Act may be cited as the Land Amendment Act 1952, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Land Act 1948 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Additional land acquired by lessee or licensee may be incorporated in existing lease or licence.

Section fifty-four of the principal Act is hereby amended as follows:—

(a)

By omitting from subsection three the word “adjoining”:

(b)

By omitting from the same subsection the words “For the purposes of this subsection lands which are separated only by a railway, road, street, river, or stream shall be deemed to adjoin”:

(c)

By repealing subsection four.

3 Amending provisions as to rates payable under temporary tenancies.

Section one hundred and twelve of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:—

“(3)

Every licence to occupy Crown land granted under this Act for a term exceeding one year or on a tenancy of more than one year shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be a licence for a term certain exceeding one year, notwithstanding that it is subject to the provisions of subsection two of section sixty-eight of this Act (which confers on the Board the right to determine the licence in the circumstances specified in that subsection).”

4 Amending provisions as to aggregation of land.

(1)

Section one hundred and seventy-five of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding to subsection five the following paragraph:—

“(d)

Where any person has transferred, granted, leased, or otherwise disposed of any estate or interest in land to any person as a trustee for any other person or has created any trust in respect of any estate or interest in land, the estate or interest shall, unless the Minister has consented to the transaction or, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, the Board otherwise decides, be deemed to continue to be owned by the first-mentioned person.”

(2)

This section shall apply only with respect to transfers, grants, leases, or other dispositions made or trusts created after the passing of this Act.

Land Amendment Act 1952