✨ Road Diversion Legislation
public street road highway or thoroughfare in any such Province and also to exchange the land over which any such public street road highway or thoroughfare was laid out or passed. And also that it should be lawful for the Governor in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty to make and execute Crown Grants of any land which should be so sold exchanged or disposed of.
And whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand entitled “The Provincial Council Powers Extension Act 1865” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent and Provincial Council of any Province and notwithstanding the restriction contained in the Tenth Subsection of the Nineteenth Section of the Constitution Act to ordain or pass any Law or Ordinance which but for such restriction might have been ordained or passed by such Superintendent and Council affecting any part of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the Province which there was or thereafter should be a public street road highway or thoroughfare.
And whereas by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of Canterbury entitled “The Diversion of Roads Ordinance Session XI No. 3” it is enacted that except as therein provided no public road shall be closed up or diverted except under the authority of a Special Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council in that behalf.
And whereas it is for the public benefit that the parcels of land mentioned and described in the first column of the Schedule hereto and in the plans hereunto annexed should become Public Highways in lieu of the parcels of land mentioned and described in the second column of the Schedule hereto and in the plans hereunto annexed and that the said last-mentioned parcels of land should cease to be Public Roads.
And whereas the persons respectively entitled thereto have conveyed the parcels of land mentioned in the first column of the Schedule hereto to the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury and his successors upon trust for Public Highways and upon the treaty for the said conveyances it was agreed that the respective parcels of land mentioned in the second column of the said Schedule should be given to the respective persons so conveying in exchange for the parcels of land conveyed by them respectively as aforesaid.
Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent of the said Province with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof as follows:—
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1868, No 3
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Publication of Diversion of Roads Special Bill
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🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works3 January 1868
Road diversion, Bill publication, Highways Act, Provincial Council