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Acts are laws made by Parliament

Crown Grants Act 1908

Public Act	1908 No 33
Date of assent	4 August 1908

Note

This Act is administered in the Department of Survey and Land Information.

Contents

1 Short Title, etc

2 Interpretation

Issue of grants

3 Director-General's certificate

4 Duties of Chief Surveyor

5 Corrections in grants

6 Surveyor's name to appear on plan

7 Negligence of surveyor

8 Governor-General's signature

9 Date of grant

Duplicate grants

10 Where grant lost or destroyed

Correction or cancellation of grants

11 Where grant to wrong person, land may be reconveyed or grant cancelled

12 Erroneous grant may be cancelled and new grant issued

13 Error in description of land

14 Evidence of error

15 Amended grant to be effectual

16 New grant may be issued in certain cases

Effect of cancellation

17 Mode and effect of cancellation

18 Certain cancelled grants declared void ab initio

Repeal of grants

19 Mode of repeal

Antevesting of the legal estate

20 Deeds of transfer to be valid

21 Date when grantee becomes entitled to grant

22 Date to be certified

23 Entry of date in habendum of grant

24 Endorsement of date on grant previously executed

25 Entry or endorsement to be evidence of date

26 Mistake in date may be corrected by Minister

27 Authority of Chief Surveyor to correct wrong date

28 Effect of corrections

Registration and delivery of grants

29 Registration and delivery of grants

30 Grant may be deposited in certain cases

31 Transfer or transmission of grantee's interest prior to execution of grant

32 Delivery of grant to successor in title of grantee

33 Entries by Registrar where grant cancelled

34 Entries may be amended where new grant issued

Effect of grants

35 Seaward boundary of land granted

36 Reservation of land for roads

36A Reservation of land for railways and other public works

36B Removal of lapsed reservations from title

37 Roadway to include railway

Evidence of grants

38 Copies of grants as evidence

39 Grant fee and acreage fee

40 Fees to be prepaid

41 Custody fees

42 Certain grants exempt from custody fee

43 Fee for certified copy

Recovery of fees and expenses

44 Outstanding fees under prior Acts

45 Liability for and recovery of fees

46 Recovery of fees, etc, in case of Maori land grants

47 Trustee or mortgagee paying fees may charge the same

Schedule 1
Enactments consolidated

An Act to consolidate certain enactments of the Parliament of New Zealand relating to grants of land by the Crown

The words “Parliament of New Zealand” were substituted, as from 1 January 1987, for the words “General Assembly” by section 29(2) Constitution Act 1986 (1986 No 114).