✨ Text of Provincial Land Act
Superintendent to be
deemed and taken to
rate.
Superintendent shall
hold lands upon
Trust for the Public
Service of his Pro-
vince.
Management and ad-
ministration to be
carried on by the Su-
perintendent with his
Executive Council
(if any).
Land not to be alien-
ated for more than 3
years, except as here-
in provided.
Purposes may be
changed.
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shall be deemed to be a grant from the Crown, and every such
grant shall declare the purposes for which such lands shall be held
whether general or specific as the case may be.
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The Superintendent of each of the said Provinces and his
Successors, shall, for the purposes of this Act be deemed and taken
to be a Body Corporate, and shall take and bear the name of the
Superintendent of such Province, and by that name shall have per-
petual succession and shall be capable in law to do and to suffer in
respect of the Land to be vested in him by virtue of this Act,
whatever may be lawfully done and suffered by a Body Cor-
porate. -
Every Superintendent of a Frovince in whom any such
Lands shall become vested, shall hold the same upon Trust for the
Public Service of such Province for the purposes specified in such
grant, with as full power to dispose of and manage the same for such
purposes, as if the same were vested absolutely in such Superin-
tendent; subject nevertheless to the provisions hereinafter con-
tained. -
The management and administration of such Lands within
each Province so to be vested in the Superintendent thereof, shall
be carried on and conducted by such Superintendent and with the
advice of his Executive Council in case there shall be such Council.
And such management and administration shall continue until other
provision be made in that behalf by some Act or Ordinance of the
Provincial Council of such Province to be passed in manner herein-
after mentioned. -
No Lands so to be granted as aforesaid within any Province
to the Superintendent thereof and his Successors, shall be alienated
by way of sale or mortgage or by lease for any longer term than three
years, except by the authority of some Act or Ordinance of the
Provincial Council of such Province to be passed in that behalf, nor
except by deed signed by the Superintendent and sealed with the
Public Seal of the Province. Provided always that no Act or Or-
dinance authorising any sale shall come into operation, till the time
in which such Act or Ordinance may be disallowed by the Go-
vernor, shall have expired. -
The specific purposes for which any such Lands within any
Province shall be held may be changed, and the same lands may be
appropriated to other and different purposes of Public Utility for
the Public Service of such Province. Provided that no such change
or new appropriation shall be made without the authority of an
Act or Ordinance of the Provincial Council of such Province, to be
duly passed in that behalf.
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NZ Gazette 1854, No 35
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Continuation of Act: Superintendent's powers and land alienation limits (Sections 4-8)
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🏛️ Governance & Central Administration14 September 1854
Legislation, Land tenure, Provincial government, Superintendent, Corporate body, Land disposal, Governor