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Land Amendment Act 1960

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Short Title

Land reserved from sale

Right to purchase fee simple and to renew and exchange existing leases

Land Amendment Act 1960

Public Act		1960 No 68
Date of assent		25 October 1960

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Land reserved from sale
3	Right to purchase fee simple and to renew and exchange existing leases

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

This Act may be cited as the Land Amendment Act 1960, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Land Act 1948¹ (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Land reserved from sale

Section 58 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:

“(4)

The renewal under this Act of any lease or licence granted under any former Land Act shall, if the Board considers it to be equitable and in the public interest and so determines, be deemed to be a disposition of land for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section.”

3 Right to purchase fee simple and to renew and exchange existing leases

(1)

Section 122 of the principal Act (as substituted by section 13 of the Land Amendment Act 1950) is hereby amended—

(a)

By omitting from subsection (1) the words “or a lease granted under the Hanmer Crown Leases Act 1928”:

(b)

By inserting in subsection (1), after the words “licence for occupation with right of purchase current at the commencement of this Act”, the words “a renewable lease under this Act granted as a renewal of or in exchange for a lease granted under the Hanmer Crown Leases Act 1928 current at the commencement of this Act; a lease of land in the Hanmer Town area granted under section 366 of the Land Act 1924 or the corresponding provisions of any former Land Act and current at the commencement of this Act, or a renewable lease under this Act granted as a renewal of or in exchange for a lease under that section or those provisions”.

(2)

Section 125 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (2) the words “to leases current at the commencement of this Act and granted under the Hanmer Crown Leases Act 1928”.

(3)

Section 126 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from the proviso to subsection (1) the words “or for a lease granted under the Hanmer Crown Leases Act 1928”.

(4)

Section 129 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “but without the right of acquiring the fee simple”.

¹* 1957 Reprint, Vol. 7, p. 1

Amendments: 1958, No. 72; 1959, No. 70

Land Amendment Act 1960