Registration District
MICHAEL HARDIE BOYS, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
at Wellington this 16th day of October 2000
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section 4 of the Deeds Registration Act 1908, it is enacted that the Governor-General, by Order
in Council, may from time to time alter the boundaries of any registration district and create new registration districts.
AND WHEREAS it is desirable to create the Otago-Southland Deeds Registration District comprising the former Otago Deeds Registration District and the former Southland Deeds Registration District.
NOW THEREFORE in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Deeds Registration Act 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, hereby declares that from 15 December 2000 the Otago-Southland Deeds Registration District with the boundaries described in the Schedule below is created.
Schedule
Otago-Southland Deeds Registration District
All that area bounded by a line commencing on the sea coast at the mouth of the Awarua River on the northern shore of Big Bay (or Awarua Bay); thence proceeding south-easterly along a straight line to Mount Aspiring; thence generally north-easterly along the summit of the Southern Alps to Mount Hopkins; thence generally southerly to the source of the Hopkins River and along the middle of that river to Lake Ohau; thence generally westerly and south-easterly along the northern, western and southern shores of Lake Ohau to the Ohau River; thence generally south-easterly down the middle of the Ohau River to and down the middle of the Waitaki River to its mouth; thence generally south-westerly, north-westerly and north-easterly along the sea coast to
the point of commencement; including Stewart, Solander, Ruapuke, the Snares, Auckland, Enderby, Campbell, Antipodes and Bounty Islands and all other adjacent islands and all islands and islets within the limits of New Zealand which lie south of the forty-seventh parallel of south latitude.
Dated at Wellington this 16th day of October 2000.
[L.S.]
MARTIN A. BELL, for Clerk of the Executive Council.