[Compiled by the Solicitor-General under the provisions of " The Statutes Compilation Act, 1902," pursuant to the resolution of both Houses of the General Assembly dated, the sth day of November, 1904.]

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PUBLIC WORKS.

ANALYSIS. Title. 23. Proclamations taking land may be oancelled 1. Short Title. for error or misdescription. PART I. 24. Map and Proclamation to be registered. If Pbeliminaby. , no ' un £ er fand Transfer Act. If land under Land Transfer Aot. Com2. Interpretation. pensation not payable until certificate of 3. Of notices. title delivered up. 4. Governor may make regulations for conduct 25. Where Proclamation not registerable to be of officers. To be laid before Parliament. lodged with Surveyor-General. 5. Minister for Public Works. Interest in contracts, &c, of Minister to devolve on Severed Land. his successor. 26. Owner may require small paroel of land 6. Appointment of engineers and other officers. severed to be taken. 7. Annual estimates. When moneys voted for railways, Appropriation Act to contain Agreements for Taking or Purchase. Schedule of same. 27. Contracts to take or purchase land required 8. Annual accounts and expenditure to be for public works may be made, and Proolacertified by Auditor-General. mation issued, without preliminaries or 9. Contracts for Government works to be in conveyances taken. the name of His Majesty. Of contracts foe looal works. Fencing. 28. Protective fenoes to be made before boundaryPART 11. fences removed. Taking Lands fob Public Woeks. „ , . ...... , _ Taking Additional Lands. 10. Application of Part 11. 29 Land may be taken for any pubUo WQrk after Power to take. suo ' l publio work has been completed. 11. Empowering the taking of land. Dealings with Taken Lands. What may and what may not be taken. 30 - Land DOt wanted may be sold, &o. Go--12. Crown lands, public reserves, &c, roads and ™™°, r ma y sell or B rant to Education 13. Water e or'land for supply of water to public 31. Application of purchase-money work. Entry on land to lay pipes and 32 " or^J e m C ° Unoll *° 00nstltute transfer of examine or repair waterworks. „„ T , ' , . , . ... 14. Forest plantations and preservation of 33 ' Lan< J s not wanted for Im ™diate ™> be d o iven y cattle Ubllo W ° rkS ''' Padd °° kS f ° r 34. HisVjesty or the local authority may grant 15. Certain lands,'&c, not to be entered on easements over lands acquired for public without consent. wor ' 16. Mines and minerals excluded from land PART 111 taken for public works. 17. As to Crown mineral leaseholds. Compensation. p , .. ~ For what and when it may be claimed. ,_„ , riiijo ,35. All persons suffering damage entitled to 18. Procedure for taking lands. Surveys and compensation. Plans to be deposited in road district, gg Qn tj fj d nQ oompensatlon Notice that objections to proposed works „„.,„v,i„ „*-i „;„„ .!,„„ „„ ;/«j • will be beard. Notice to be served on Kg Act P owners and occupiers. How objections to 87 Compen g aation nofc to be olaimed after five ,„ tt r ' ji- u tit- • i years from taking, or one year from other 19. Upon recommendation by Minister or me- £ e Buffered . B ' mortal by local aathority, lands to be taken ° by Proclamation. Declaration by looal The Claim. authority to be accepted as sufficient that 38. By whom compensation may be claimed. public work is authorised. 39. Public Trustee to be guardian, &c, in certain 20. Proclamation taking land not to issue until cases. Governor is satisfied that compensation 40. Public Trustee may claim in respect of has been provided for. Native reserves. 21. Setting apart Crown land for public work. 41. Procedure in unrepresented absentee olaims. 22. Proclamations not to take effect until gazetted. 42. Claimant and respondent.

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