238Vesting of roads

1. When the Registrar-General of Land deposits a survey plan, or a Chief Surveyor approves a survey plan to which section 228 applies, the land shown on the survey plan as road to be vested in a local authority or the Crown vests, free from all interests in land including any encumbrances (without the necessity of any instrument of release or discharge or otherwise),—

2. in the case of a regional road, in the territorial authority or regional council, as the case may be:
3. in the case of a Government road declared as such under any Act, in the Crown:
4. in the case of a State highway, in the Crown or the territorial authority, as the case may be:
5. in the case of any other road, in the territorial authority.

6. Repealed

Notes

• Section 238: amended, on 7 July 1993, by section 125 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1993 (1993 No 65).
• Section 238(1): amended, on 1 October 2009, by section 150 of the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 31).
• Section 238(2): repealed, on 12 November 2018, by section 250 of the Land Transfer Act 2017 (2017 No 30).