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Public Works Act 1981

Acquisition of land for public works - Defining middle line of road or railway

36A: Transitional procedures for defining middle line

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“How old notices about road and railway lines will be treated”

If you have seen a notice in the Gazette that defines the middle line of a road or railway line, this notice will stay in effect until it expires or until five years after the Resource Management Act 1991 started, whichever comes first. This is true even though the rules about defining the middle line (sections 36 to 39) have been cancelled. The notice will work just like it did before those rules were cancelled.

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Part 2 Acquisition of land for public works
Defining middle line of road or railway

36ATransitional procedures for defining middle line

  1. Where a notice has been issued in the Gazette defining the middle line of a road or railway line under sections 36 to 39, that notice shall continue to have effect until its expiry or until the fifth anniversary of the date of commencement of the Resource Management Act 1991, whichever date first occurs, as if sections 36 to 39 had not been repealed.

Notes
  • Section 36A: inserted, on , by section 362 of the Resource Management Act 1991 (1991 No 69).