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Diversion of Roads Ordinance 1866

8. The Diversion of Roads Ordinance 1865.

Analysis. Preamble.

1. Roads as described in Schedule to be disposed of according to recited

Ordinance.

2. Title.

Whereas by an Act of the Parliament of New Zealand, passed in the Twenty-first and Twenty-second years of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, entituled "The Highways and Watercourses Diversion Act, 1858," it was enacted "That it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of any Province, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, by any Law or Ordinance to be made or ordained for that purpose, to authorise and empower the Superintendent to divert or stop up any public street, road, highway, or thoroughfare in any such Province, and also to divert or stop up any river, stream, or creek in such

Province, and to build bridges, dams, wharves, and other erections on the banks or in the beds of any such river, stream, or creek, and also to sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of the land over which any such public street, road, highway, or thoroughfare was laid out or passed, or the bed of any river, stream, or creek so diverted or stopped up: And whereas by an Ordinance of the Superinendent nd Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury entituled “The Diversion of Roads Ordinance Session XI. No. 3” it is ordained that excepting as therein

otherwise provided no public road shall be closed up or diverted except under the authority of a Special Ordinance of the said Superintenent and Provincial Council And whereas it is expedient that certain public roads or parts thereof should be closed up or diverted.

Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent of the said Province of Canterbury, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, as follows:

1. Roads as described in Schedule to be disposed of according to recited

Ordinance.

It shall be lawful for the Superintendent of the said Province by Proclamation in the Provincial Government Gazette to sop up the public roads and parts of public roads described in the Schedule to this Ordinance and in the Plan hereto annexed and therein colored green and the parcels of land over which the sai road and parts of public roads were laid out or passed shall be disposed of in the manner directed in the said recitedd Ordinance.

2. Title.

This Ordinance shall be entituled, and may be cited as "The Diversion of Roads

Ordinance, 1866."

Schedule of Roads and Reserves to be Abandoned.

Notes.

Passed by the Provincial Council 20th August 1863, assented by Superintendent on behalf of the Governor on 4th September 1863. Sam Bealey, Charles Bowen, Henry Bacon Quin.