14. Authorizing the North Canterbury Hospital Board to transfer
 certain land to the Wairewa County Council---Whereas, by memorandum of
 transfer registered in the Land Registry Office at Christchurch as
 Number 181359, the land described in subsection four of this section,
 together with other lands, was transferred by way of gift by the
 Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Wairewa (in this
 section referred to as the Council) to the North Canterbury Hospital
 Board (in this section referred to as the Board) for the purposes of a
 maternity hospital: And whereas the said land is no longer required for
 that purpose and the Board is desirous of returning it by way of gift to
 the Council but there is no statutory or other power enabling the Board
 to do so: And whereas it is desirable and expedient that the Board
 should be authorized to make the gift: Be it therefore enacted as
 follows:

   (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Hospitals Act
 1926, or in any other Act or rule of law, the Board is hereby authorized
 and empowered to transfer the land described in subsection four of this
 section to the Council and the Council is hereby likewise authorized and
 empowered to accept the gift of the said land.

   (2) On the registration of a transfer pursuant to subsection one of
 this section, the said land shall vest in the Council freed and
 discharged from all trusts, reservations, and restrictions theretofore
 affecting the said land.

   (3) The District Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of
 Canterbury is hereby authorized and directed to accept such documents
 for registration, to deposit such plans, to make such entries in the
 register books, and to do all such other things as may be necessary to
 give effect to the provisions of this section.

   (4) The land to which this section relates is particularly described
 as follows:

   All that area in the Canterbury Land District, Wairewa County,
 situated in Blocks I and II, Akaroa Survey District, containing by
 admeasurement two acres three roods and thirty-two perches, more or
 less, being parts of Lots 1 and 3 on the plan deposited in the Land
 Registry Office at Christchurch, under Number 8735, and being part of
 Rural Section Number 4113, and being the balance of the land comprised
 and described in certificate of title, Volume 405, folio 137, Canterbury
 Registry: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked
 L. and S. 6/8/33, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and
 Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered green.