13. Notwithstanding any sale or other disposal of any unsurveyed rural or pastoral lands for cash, or on deferred payment, or for occupation with right of purchase, or perpetual lease, or lease in perpetuity, or renewable lease, or in any manner whatsoever, and at any time previous to the approval of the plan of the survey of the same by the Chief Surveyor of the district, the Governor shall have the right to exclude from such sale or other disposal any road-lines which may be required through or over any such lands, and to reserve any of the said lands which are situate on the seashore, the margin of lakes, or on river-banks, or which are required for any of the purposes mentioned in section three hundred and twenty-one hereof, without paying compensation for any land so excluded or reserved.

122. There shall be reserved from sale or other disposition a strip of land not less than sixty-six feet in width along all high-water lines of the sea, and of its bays, inlets, or creeks, and along the margins of all lakes exceeding fifty acres in area, and along the banks of all rivers and streams of an average width of not less than thirty-three feet, and, in the discretion of the Commissioner, along the bank of any river or stream of less width than thirty-three feet.

14. Lands on seashore &c., excluded from sale. – Notwithstanding any sale or other disposal of any unsurveyed rural or pastoral lands in any manner whatsoever, at any time previous to the approval of the plan of the survey of the same by the Chief Surveyor of the district, the Governor-General shall have the right, without liability to pay compensation, to exclude from such sale or other disposal any road-lines which may be required through or over any such lands, and to reserve any of the said lands which are situate on the seashore, or on the margin of any lake, or on any river-bank, or which are required for any of the purposes mentioned in section three hundred and fifty-nine hereof.

This section replaces s13 of the Land Act 1908.

129. Reserves along seashore and banks of lakes, rivers, &c. – There shall be reserved from sale or other disposition a strip of land not less than sixty-six feet in width along all high-water lines of the sea, and of its bays, inlets or creeks, and along the margins of all lakes exceeding fifty acres in area, and along the banks of all rivers and streams of an average width of not less than thirty-three feet, and, in the discretion of the Commissioner, along the bank of any river or stream of less width than thirty-three feet.

This section replaces s122 of the Land Act 1908.

It does not apply to settlement land (Land Settlements Act 1925, s66); nor to land comprised in closed roads (Land laws Amendment Act 1929, s20).