BILL NO. 48

(as introduced)

3rd Session, 58th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
52 Elizabeth II, 2003

Local Bill

Lunenburg Common Lands Act
(amended)

The Honourable Michael G. Baker, Q.C.
Lunenburg

First Reading: May 8, 2003

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading: May 9, 2003

Third Reading: May 22, 2003 (LINK TO BILL AS PASSED)

The lands of the Second Peninsula Cemetery Association are part of the common lands in the County of Lunenburg and revert to the trustees of the common lands if no longer used for cemetery purposes. This Bill authorizes an exchange of lands between the Association and Donald L. Johnston, releases lands conveyed to Dr Johnston from the reversion and imposes the possibility of reversion on lands conveyed to the Association.

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 Chapter 72 of the Acts of 1897, the Lunenburg Common Lands Act, is amended by adding immediately after Section 4 the following Section:

4A (1) The Second Peninsula Cemetery Association may convey to Dr Donald L. Johnston approximately 2.8 acres of its land at Second Peninsula, in the County of Lunenburg, in exchange for the lands at Second Peninsula conveyed to Donald L. Johnston and Sharon L. Mulvagh by Jesteen A. Sutton and Jorgeen Hollister by deed dated October 4, 1991, and recorded in the Registry of Deeds at Bridgewater, in the County of Lunenburg, in Book 510 at pages 344 to 350.

(2) Subsection 4(4) does not apply to the lands conveyed to Dr Johnston by the Association.

(3) Subsections 4(4) and (5) apply to the lands conveyed to the Association by Dr Johnston.

2 A copy of this Act certified to be a true copy by the Clerk or the Legislative Counsel of the House of Assembly may be registered in the Registry of Deeds at Bridgewater, in the County of Lunenburg, without proof of the signature or official character of the Clerk or the Legislative Counsel.