20. Declaring the bed of the Awapuni Lagoon to be Crown land---Whereas
 the bed of the Awapuni Lagoon situated in Blocks V and VI, Turanganui
 Survey District, is vested in the Crown subject to the rights, if any,
 of the owners of the adjoining lands: And whereas it is desirable that
 provision be made securing the title of the Crown to the bed of the
 lagoon against possible claims by adjoining owners in the event of the
 dewatering of the bed by natural causes or artificial works: Be it
 therefore enacted as follows:

   (1) The bed of the Awapuni Lagoon, as described in subsection two of
 this section, together with any part or parts thereof that may be
 dewatered and become dry land due to natural causes or as a direct or
 indirect result of drainage, reclamation, or protection works or of any
 other artificial works of whatsoever nature, are hereby declared to be
 vested in Her Majesty as Crown land subject to the Land Act 1948.

   (2) The bed of the Awapuni Lagoon to which this section relates is
 hereby declared to be the following area:

   All that area in the Cook County, Gisborne Land District, situated in
 Blocks V and VI, Turanganui Survey District, containing by admeasurement
 seven hundred and twenty-seven acres three roods seven perches and
 five-tenths of a perch, more or less, being all the area edged green on
 the plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Gisborne, under Number
 2833, excepting therefrom those portions coloured red containing one
 acre two roods and nine perches and five-tenths of a perch and two roods
 and twenty-three perches, respectively, taken for the purposes of a road
 and railway by Proclamations dated the twentieth day of November,
 nineteen hundred and forty-one, and the twentieth day of October,
 nineteen hundred and forty-four, and published in the Gazette of the
 twenty-seventh day of November, nineteen hundred and forty-one, and the
 twenty-sixth day of October, nineteen hundred and forty-four.