(1) The Minister for
Lands and Surveys 7 may direct that the streets delineated and shown on the
Drawings as defined by the Agreement be surveyed.
(2) When the Minister
for Lands and Surveys 7 has made a direction under subsection (1) and the plan
of a survey made in compliance with the direction is certified correct by the
Surveyor General or other officer authorised in that behalf —
(a) any
land delineated and shown on that plan as a street shall, subject to
subsection (3), be deemed to be dedicated as a street under the Local
Government Act 1995 ; and
(b) the
local government of the district within which a street deemed by virtue of
this subsection to be dedicated under the Local Government Act 1995 is
situated has the care, control and management of that street,
with effect from the
date of that certification.
(3) A street 6 metres
or less in width shall not be dedicated under subsection (2).
(4) For the purposes
of sections 174 and 175 of the Land Act 1933 8 , the Resort Lands shall be
deemed to be land under the control of the Minister for Lands and Surveys 7 .
(5) In this section
—
street means a thoroughfare as defined in
section 1.4 of the Local Government Act 1995 ;
Minister for Lands and Surveys means the Minister
of the Crown to whom the administration of the Land Act 1933 8 is for the
time being committed by the Governor 7 ;
Surveyor General means the person for the time
being holding or acting in the office of Surveyor General under section 173 of
the Land Act 1933 8 .
[Section 8 amended: No. 14 of 1996 s. 4.]
[ 9. Omitted under the Reprints Act 1984 s.
7(4)(e).]