New Zealand Legislation: Acts

33 Registers

• (1) No Registrar of Deeds or District Land Registrar or Registrar of the Maori Land Court or any other person charged with the keeping of any books or registers shall be obliged solely by reason of the provisions of this Act to change the name of the Ngai Tahu Maori Trust Board or the name of Te Runanganui o Tahu Incorporated to that of Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu in those books or registers or in any other document.

  (2) The presentation to any Registrar or other person of any instrument, whether or not comprising an instrument of transfer by Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu,—

  • (a) executed or purporting to be executed by Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu; and

  • (b) relating to any property held immediately before the commencement of this Act by the Ngai Tahu Maori Trust Board or Te Runanganui o Tahu Incorporated; and

  • (c) containing a recital that the property has become vested in Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu by virtue of the provisions of this Act—

  shall, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, be sufficient proof that the property is vested in Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu.