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[As EEPOBTED FROM THE WASTE LANDS COMMITTEE, 26TH SEPT., 1893.] Hon. Mr. McEenzie. WESTLAND AND NELSON COALFIELDS ADMINISTKATION ACT 1877 AMENDMENT.

ANALYSIS.

Title. 1. Short Title. 2. Provision as to lands within Westport Colliery Eeserve. 3. Governor, may set apart additional reserves. 4. Bights of tenants holding under Orders in Council.

5. Respecting other tenancies. 6. If on expiration of lease, lands reserved, lessee may remove his improvements. 7. Power of Board to dispose of unlet portions of Colliery Reserve.

A BILL INTITULED An Act to amend " The Westland and Nelson Coalfields Administration Act, 1877." BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in 5 Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—■ 1. The Short Title of this Act is "The Westland and Nelson Coalfields Administration Act 1877 Amendment Act, 1893." 2. The following provisions shall have operation in respect of the Westport Colliery Reserve, as the same is defined in the Fourth 10 Schedule to "The Westland and Nelson Coalfields Administration Act, 1877," and shall be read as part of that Act. 3. The Governor, by Order in Council, gazetted, to be issued as soon as may be after the commencement of this Act, shall define such further portions of the aforesaid reserve, in addition to the 15 portions thereof already set apart for railway purposes by an Order in Council of the twenty-third day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six {Gazette, 1876, page 200), as are likely to be required for railway purposes or other public purposes, and shall set apart such further portions for the aforesaid purposes accordingly. 20 4. With respect to lands included within any such first-men-tioned Order in Council as set apart for railway or other public purposes, every lessee of land which is not immediately required for railway purposes shall continue to hold his lease subject to the conditions upon which the same was granted, but subject to the power 25 of the Governor to take the land comprised therein as aforesaid. The provisions of section eighteen of the last-named Act shall apply in respect of all the aforesaid leases, and to the respective holders thereof, and to the compensation to be paid for any land taken for railway or other purposes, in the same manner as in the 30 said section provided with respect to land set apart by the Order in Council of the twenty-third day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, in the said section mentioned. No. 117—2.

Title.

Short Title.

Provision as tolanda within Westporb Colliery Eeserve.

Governor may set apart additional reserves.

Rights of tenants holding under Orders in Council,