Land Act, 1965
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Extension of powers of Land Commission to provide rights of way. |
20.—(1) The powers of the Land Commission to expend money for the benefit or improvement of any lands shall, in addition to the matters mentioned in section 43 of the Land Act, 1923 , and section 39 (as amended by section 33 of this Act) of the Land Act, 1931 , include power to confer on the Land Commission and their licensees, and to define and extend or improve, ways and rights of way over any land whatsoever (including any accretion, through alluvion or dereliction, whether or not caused by drainage), for the purpose of facilitating passage to and from the sea or to and from a lake or river which adjoins lands sold or agreed to be sold under the Land Purchase Acts, whether such rights of way are or are not conferred as to be appurtenant to any land, and whether any terminal point of such ways and rights of way is or is not situate on lands sold or agreed to be sold under the Land Purchase Acts. | |
(2) The powers conferred on the Land Commission by section 43 of the Land Act, 1923 , and section 39 (as amended by section 33 of this Act) of the Land Act, 1931 , and extended by this section, may be exercised for the purposes of conferring and defining and extending— | ||
(a) rights to park vehicles or to beach boats, and | ||
(b) rights to moor or anchor boats. | ||
(3) The powers of the Land Commission under this section shall not be exercised compulsorily in relation to any right over land situate within fifty yards of an occupied dwellinghouse which was in existence at the commencement of the period of six months ending on the date of the notice in respect of that right served by the Land Commission. |