New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
| Local Act | 1877 No 13 |
| Date of assent | 20 November 1877 |
An Act to authorize the Governor to complete certain Unfulfilled Engagements relating to Land, and for that purpose to issue Crown Grants in certain cases.
WHEREAS verbal and written promises have from time to time been made to give pieces or parcels of land to Maori, who have thereupon in some cases occupied the land so promised to them, and erected buildings thereon, and in other cases have alienated the said lands and received full money consideration for the same from parties dealing with such Maori in good faith: And whereas during the course of years certain complications in respect of confiscated lands and exchanges thereof, and in respect of the sale, exchange, and grants of other lands of the Crown have arisen, and the same cannot be settled without special authority of law:
The word “Maori”
was substituted, as from 27 November 1947, for the word “Native”
pursuant to section 2(2) Maori Purposes Act 1947 (1947 No 59).
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
