New Zealand Acts

WELLINGTON CITY BETTERMENT ACT 1900 - SECT 3

3 Landowners to pay compensation for increase in value derived from widening street

Where the Council shall, after the coming into operation of this Act, widen any street in the city, or widen any part of the length of any such street, and shall take or purchase or otherwise acquire the land required for such purpose from one side only of the street, then and in every such case the several owners of the respective lands fronting or having any frontage to the opposite side of the street shall pay to the Corporation by way of compensation such sums of money as shall represent the increase in the value of such lands respectively likely to be caused by the execution of the work of widening the said street or part of street.