Land Act, 1965

Amendment of section 39 of Land Act, 1931.

33.Section 39 of the Land Act, 1931 , is hereby amended—

(a) by the substitution for subsection (2) of the following subsection:

“(2) The powers of the Land Commission to expend money on the improvement of land sold or agreed to be sold under the Land Purchase Acts

shall, in addition to the matters mentioned in section 43 of the Land Act, 1923 , 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 for the purpose of facilitating passage to and from any land sold or agreed to be sold under the Land Purchase Acts, whether such rights of way are or are not so 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.”,

(b) by the insertion in subsection (3) after “confers and defines” of “or extends or improves”,

(c) by the insertion in subsection (3) after “is so conferred” of “, defined, extended or improved”,

(d) by the insertion in subsection (4) after “right of access conferred” of “or defined or extended or improved”, and

(e) by the substitution of “two hundred pounds” for “fifty pounds” in subsection (4).