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Railway Reserves Leasing Ordinance 1868

3. The Railway Reserves Leasing Ordinance 1868.

Whereas the Parcel of Land described in the Schedule hereto is vested in the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury and his successors in trust for public purposes. And Whereas it is expedient that the said Superintendent of the said Province of Canterbury and his successors should have power to demise and lease the said Parcel of Land.

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. What Land may be Leased.

It shall be lawful for the Superintendent by and with the advice and consent of his Executive Council from time to time to demise and lease for any term or terms not exceeding Twenty-one Years all or any part of the Parcel of Land described in the Schedule to this Ordinance upon such terms and conditions and at such rent or rents as to the Superintendent by and with such advice and consent as aforesaid may seem proper.

2. Interpretation.

The term "Superintendent" shall mean the Superintendent for the time being in the Province of Canterbury.

3. Title.

This Ordinance may for all purposes be cited as "The Railway Reserves Leasing Ordinance 1868."

Schedule.

All that piece or parcel of land being part of rural section No. 79 containing by admeasurement nine acres one rood more or less commencing at the north-east corner of the said section thence westerly following the southern side of the South Town Belt a distance of thirty-nine chains seventy links and extending southerly a distance of two chains thirty-three links in rectangular block being bounded on the westward by the continuation of the eastern side of Colombo Street.