New Zealand Acts

WELLINGTON CORPORATION AND HARBOUR BOARD STREETS AND LANDS ACT 1892 - SECT 11

11 Weighbridge site

Whereas, by section 3 of The Wellington Queen's Wharf and Store Sales Act 1881 , the Corporation was empowered to grant to the Board a lease for a term not exceeding forty-two years at a peppercorn rental of the parcel of land upon which the weighbridge and the office connected therewith have been erected, such parcel of land forming part of Custom-house Quay and of the approach to the Queen's Wharf: And whereas it has been found desirable to remove the said weighbridge and office to a part of Jervois Quay: Be it therefore enacted that the Corporation is hereby empowered to grant to the Board a lease for a term of thirty-one years, at an annual rental of twenty dollars, of the piece of land described in Schedule 9 to this Act , notwithstanding that such land forms part of a public street; and the Corporation is hereby further empowered at the expiration of such term to grant to the Board a renewal of such lease for such term of years, at such rent, and subject to such conditions as shall be agreed upon between the Corporation and the Board, and again in the same manner from time to time to renew such lease. The weighbridge and office shall be deemed to be tenants' fixtures removable by the Board at the expiration of any such lease. After the removal of the weighbridge and office from their present position the present site thereof shall become part of the public street.

History: The expression twenty dollars was substituted, as from 10 July 1967, for the expression ten pounds pursuant to section 7(1) Decimal Currency Act 1964 (1964 No 27).