Section 8 Minor amendments of Crown Lands Acts

The authority, approval or consent of the Treasury, when required for the purpose of this Part of this Act or of any provision of the Crown Lands Acts, 1829 to 1927, or of any such provision as applied for the purpose of any other enactment, may be given either generally or for any class of case or for any particular case, and may be signified under the hand of a Secretary to the Treasury or of some person authorised in that behalf by the Treasury.

All moneys invested after the commencement of this Act in pursuance of section one hundred and nine of the 10 Geo. 4. c. 50.Crown Lands Act, 1829, or section one of the 57 & 58 Vict. c. 43.Crown Lands Act, 1894, shall, instead of being invested in the name of the Treasury as required by those sections, be invested—

and in section one hundred and eleven of the Crown Lands Act, 1829, a reference to the National Debt Commissioners shall be substituted for the reference to the Treasury.

Notwithstanding anything in section sixty-one of the Crown Lands Act, 1829, a person employed to make a survey or estimate under that section shall not be required to annex thereto an oath or affirmation.

The definition of " land " in subsection (1) of section twenty-two of the Crown Lands Act, 1927, shall have effect as if for the word " corporeal," where it secondly occurs, there were substituted the word " incorporeal. "

Section one of the 8 & 9 Vict. c. 99.Crown Lands Act, 1845 (which contains provisions as to leases which are superseded by the provisions of section four of the Crown Lands Act, 1927) shall cease to have effect.