12   Dedication of land

(1)  A development corporation may, by notification published in the Gazette, declare that it proposes to surrender to Her Majesty land described or referred to in the notification to be dedicated for any public purpose specified in the notification or, if so specified in the notification, as a public road.

(2)  When land described or referred to in a notification published in accordance with subsection (1) is surrendered, the land:

(a)  becomes Crown land reserved from sale, lease or licence under the Crown Lands Act 1989, and

(b)  on revocation of the reservation, may be dedicated under that Act for the public purpose specified in the notification or under section 12 of the Roads Act 1993 as a public road, as the case requires.

(3)  A development corporation may, in a notification published pursuant to subsection (1), limit the description of, or reference to, land to a specified depth below the surface thereof and, where such a description or reference is so limited, subsection (2) does not apply to or in respect of land below the depth so specified.