7. T. D. Burnett private burial ground---Whereas section 22 of the
Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Act 1938 made provision for the burial
of the body of Thomas David Burnett in a defined area of Mount Cook
Station that was later declared to be a private burial ground, and
prohibited the burial of the body of any other person in that burial
ground: And whereas the body of Thomas David Burnett was buried there in
1941: And whereas it is desired to provide that the bodies of Donald
Mount Cook Burnett (the son of Thomas David Burnett) and Caitriana
Mackay Beatock Baker (the daughter of Thomas David Burnett) may be
buried in the burial ground after their respective deaths: Be it
therefore enacted as follows:
Section 22 of the Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Act 1938 is hereby
amended by inserting, after subsection (3), the following subsection:
``(3A) Notwithstanding section 36 (3) of the Burial and Cremations Act
1964 or subsection (4) of this section, the bodies of Donald Mount Cook
Burnett and Caitriana Mackay Beatock Baker may be buried in the land
referred to in subsection (7) of this section.''