Maori Purposes Act 1931 No 32 (as at 03 September 2007), Public Act

Maori Purposes Act 1931

Public Act1931 No 32
Date of assent11 November 1931

Contents

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Rewi maniapoto Memorial Trust

51  [Repealed]

52  [Repealed]

53  [Repealed]

54  [Repealed]

55  [Repealed]

56  [Repealed]

Ringatu Church Trust

58  [Repealed]

Whakarua Park

Hinerupe Trust (te araroa)

61  [Repealed]

62  [Repealed]

Administration of Otaki Lands

64  [Repealed]

65  [Repealed]

Kaiapoi Reserve Board

67  [Repealed]

68  [Repealed]

70  [Repealed]

71  [Repealed]

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(h) Matters affecting South Island District

109  [Repealed]

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115  [Repealed]

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117  [Repealed]

Repeals


An Act to consolidate various amendments of the laws relating to Maori lands, to adjust certain claims and disputes, to bestow powers upon certain Boards and authorities, to confer jurisdiction upon the Maori Land Court and the Maori Appellate Court, and for other purposes

1 Short Title and commencement
  • This Act may be cited as the Maori Purposes Act 1931, and shall come into operation on the 1st day of January 1932, save that section 115 of this Act shall come into operation on the passing thereof.

2 Interpretation
  • In this Act the expression the principal Act means the Maori Land Act 1931.

3 Definition
  • Words and expressions used in this Act shall, unless the contrary intention appears, have the same meaning as in the principal Act.

Part 1
Provisions affecting Maori reserves

4
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 4 to 16 were repealed by section 93(1) Maori Reserved Land Act 1955.

5
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 4 to 16 were repealed by section 93(1) Maori Reserved Land Act 1955.

6
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 4 to 16 were repealed by section 93(1) Maori Reserved Land Act 1955.

7
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 4 to 16 were repealed by section 93(1) Maori Reserved Land Act 1955.

8
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 4 to 16 were repealed by section 93(1) Maori Reserved Land Act 1955.

9
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 4 to 16 were repealed by section 93(1) Maori Reserved Land Act 1955.

10
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 4 to 16 were repealed by section 93(1) Maori Reserved Land Act 1955.

11
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 4 to 16 were repealed by section 93(1) Maori Reserved Land Act 1955.

12
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 4 to 16 were repealed by section 93(1) Maori Reserved Land Act 1955.

13
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 4 to 16 were repealed by section 93(1) Maori Reserved Land Act 1955.

14
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 4 to 16 were repealed by section 93(1) Maori Reserved Land Act 1955.

15
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 4 to 16 were repealed by section 93(1) Maori Reserved Land Act 1955.

16
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 4 to 16 were repealed by section 93(1) Maori Reserved Land Act 1955.

Part 2
Scenic reserves

17 Providing for administration of Okataina Scenic Reserve
  • (1) The Governor-General may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, vest the control of the reserves mentioned in section 20 of the Maori Land Amendment and Maori Land Claims Adjustment Act 1921-22 in a Board of Control constituted by him for the purpose, consisting of not less than 6 persons, of whom 5 shall be members of the Ngati-Tarawhai, Subtribe of the Arawa Tribe. The Governor-General may by Order in Council make regulations prescribing the practice and procedure of the Board of Control.

    (2) Notwithstanding the cession to Her Majesty of any lands affected by this section, the former Maori owners thereof shall have at all times free right of access to any ancestral burial grounds that may be included therein, and shall also have the right to bury deceased Maoris in any such burial grounds.

    Compare: 1921-22 No 62 s 20; 1928 No 49 s 38

18 Provisions relating to cession by Maori owners of certain lands near Lakes Rotoiti and Rotoehu, to be held by Her Majesty in trust for scenic purposes
  • (1) For the administration of the reserves ceded to Her Majesty pursuant to section 33 of the Maori Land Amendment and Maori Land Claims Adjustment Act 1919, the Governor-General may, acting under the authority of section 13 of the Scenery Preservation Act 1908, appoint a special Board of Control, consisting of not less than 6 persons, of whom 5 shall be members of the Ngatipikiao Tribe.

    (2) Notwithstanding the cession to Her Majesty, the former Maori owners thereof shall have at all times free right of access to any ancestral burial grounds that may be included therein, and shall also have the right to bury deceased Maoris in any such burial grounds.

    Compare: 1919 No 43 s 33

19 Provision relating to cession of portion of Waione Block for scenic purposes
  • The administration of the reserves ceded to Her Majesty pursuant to section 32 of the Maori Land Amendment and Maori Land Claims Adjustment Act 1922 shall be controlled by the Board of Control provided for by the last preceding section.

    Compare: 1922 No 48 s 32

20 Provision relating to part of Rotoiti Maori Township ceded to Crown for scenic purposes
  • The administration of the reserves ceded to Her Majesty pursuant to section 31 of the Maori Land Amendment and Maori Land Claims Adjustment Act 1922 shall be controlled and administered by the Board of Control provided for by section 18 hereof.

    Compare: 1922 No 48 s 31; 1926 No 64 s 20; 1929 No 19 s 34

21 Authorising Board of Control for Rotokakahi Lake
  • The administration of Rotokakahi Lake (or Green Lake), situate in the Waiariki Maori Land Court District, together with the islands therein, including the Punaruku Island, shall be controlled by a Board of Control constituted by the Governor-General, consisting of not less than 6 persons, of whom 5 shall be members of the Tuhourangi and Ngatitumatawera Subtribes of the Arawa Tribe.

    Compare: 1923 No 32 s 14; 1930 No 29 s 27

22 Crown may accept gift of Urenui Pa
  • (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the principal Act, the Crown may acquire and accept by way of gift from the owners the Maori land situate in the Taranaki Land District, containing 7 acres, more or less, and being Subdivision 2B 1 of Section 2 of Block III of the Waitara Survey District, and known as the Urenui Pa, upon the conditions set forth in an agreement signed by the Maori owners and dated the 17th day of January 1921.

    (2) Whenever the Governor-General is satisfied that the majority of the Maori owners of the said land have assented to such gift, and that the said conditions will be observed and performed, he may proclaim that the land has become Crown land, and thereupon the land shall be deemed to be Crown land. Any such Proclamation shall be conclusive as to its own validity.

    (3) Upon becoming so proclaimed the said land shall be deemed to be a scenic and historic reserve within the meaning of the Scenery Preservation Act 1908 and shall be dealt with accordingly.

    Compare: 1929 No 19 s 55

Part 3
Maori townships

23
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 23 and 24 were repealed by section 93(1) Maori Reserved Land Act 1955.

24
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 23 and 24 were repealed by section 93(1) Maori Reserved Land Act 1955.

25
  • [Repealed]

    Section 25 was repealed by section 5(4) Maori Purposes Act 1933.

26
  • [Repealed]

    Section 26 was repealed by section 93(1) Maori Reserved Land Act 1955.

Part 4
East Coast Maori Trust lands

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28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
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45

Part 5
Administrative boards and bodies

46
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 46 to 48 were repealed by section 16(1) Maori Purposes Fund Act 1934-35.

47
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 46 to 48 were repealed by section 16(1) Maori Purposes Fund Act 1934-35.

48
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 46 to 48 were repealed by section 16(1) Maori Purposes Fund Act 1934-35.

49
  • [Repealed]

    Section 49 was repealed by section 57(1) Maori Trust Boards Act 1955.

Rewi maniapoto Memorial Trust

50 Vesting Lot 112, Kihikihi, in a corporate body for special purposes
  • (1) For the purpose of administering and managing the land hereinafter mentioned there shall be constituted a corporate body with perpetual succession and a common seal having the same powers and functions as a body corporate constituted under Part 4 of the Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1967, to be called the Rewi Maniapoto Memorial Committee, and in respect of which the following provisions shall apply:

    • (a) The Court shall, by order, appoint a committee of management consisting of not less than 5 and not more than 7 members as the Court may determine, being persons of the Ngati-Maniapoto Tribe, and all the powers and functions of the body corporate hereby constituted shall be exercised on its behalf by a majority of the members for the time being in office of a committee of management so appointed, and no act of the committee of management shall be questioned or invalidated on the ground of any vacancy in the membership thereof:

    • (b) The Court may at any time, whether on application made or on its own motion and for any reason which it thinks sufficient, remove from office any member of the committee of management:

    • (c) If any member of the committee of management dies, or resigns, or is removed from office the Court may appoint another person in his place:

    • (d) All the provisions of Part 4 of the Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1967 as to the execution of instruments by a committee of management, and as to the confirmation and effect of instruments executed by the members of a committee of management, shall apply to instruments executed by the committee of management appointed under this section:

    • (e) The Court may from time to time, by order, make bylaws (consistent with this section) prescribing the practice and procedure of the committee of management. Subject to this section and any bylaws so made, the committee may regulate its own proceedings.

    (2) The land known as Lot 112 of the Town of Kihikihi, being the land referred to and described in section 15 of the Maori Land Claims Adjustment Act 1911 is hereby vested in the corporate body known as the Rewi Maniapoto Memorial Committee, and the District Land Registrar is hereby directed to issue a certificate of title under the Land Transfer Act 1915 for the said land in the name of the said corporate body.

    (3) The corporate body shall hold the said land in trust primarily for the purpose of protecting, improving, maintaining and repairing, and replacing, if necessary, the memorial erected thereon to the memory of Rewi Maniapoto (deceased), and for such other purpose for the benefit of the said Ngati-Maniapoto Tribe as the Court shall from time to time determine.

    (4) Any committee of management already appointed shall be deemed to have been appointed under this Act.

    Compare: 1929 No 19 s 53

    In subsection (1) Part 4 Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1967 has been substituted in 2 places for the repealed Part 22 Maori Affairs Act 1953 which replaced the repealed Part 17 Maori Land Act 1931.

51
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 51 and 52 were repealed by section 57(1) Maori Trust Boards Act 1955.

52
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 51 and 52 were repealed by section 57(1) Maori Trust Boards Act 1955.

53
  • [Repealed]

    Section 53 was repealed by section 50(1) Maori Social and Economic Advancement Act 1945.

54
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 54 to 56 were repealed by section 57(1) Maori Trust Boards Act 1955.

55
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 54 to 56 were repealed by section 57(1) Maori Trust Boards Act 1955.

56
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 54 to 56 were repealed by section 57(1) Maori Trust Boards Act 1955.

Ringatu Church Trust

57 Wainui or Section 313, Parish of Waimana, to be administered by trustees for the Ringatu Church
  • With regard to the land known as Wainui or Section 313, Parish of Waimana, in the Bay of Plenty, containing 600 acres or thereabouts, vested in trustees in trust for the Ringatu Church pursuant to section 31 of the Maori Land Amendment and Maori Land Claims Adjustment Act 1921-22, the following provisions shall apply:

    • (a) The Court may at any time, whether on application made or on its own motion, and for any reason which it thinks sufficient, remove any trustee from office:

    • (b) If any trustee dies, or resigns, or is removed from office, the Court may appoint any other person in his place:

    • (c) The trustees shall, in respect of the said land, have and exercise all the powers of a committee of management under Part 4 of the Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1967, and the trust property shall vest in the trustees for the time being without any transfer or assurance.

    Compare: 1921-22 No 62 s 31

    In paragraph (c) Part 4 Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1967 has been substituted for the repealed Part 22 Maori Affairs Act 1953 which replaced the repealed Part 17 Maori Land Act 1931.

58
  • [Repealed]

    Section 58 was repealed by section 93(1) Maori Reserved Land Act 1955.

Whakarua Park

59 Providing for the administration of Whakarua Park
  • (1) The Board of Trustees incorporated by the Court under the provisions of section 41 of the Maori Land Amendment and Maori Land Claims Adjustment Act 1928, under the name of the Whakarua Park Board (hereinafter referred to as the Board) shall be a body corporate and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and may acquire and hold real and personal property of whatsoever nature, sue and be sued in all proceedings criminal or civil, and do and suffer all that corporate bodies may do and suffer.

    (2) All property, real or personal, held by the Board shall be deemed to be vested in the Board upon and subject to all trusts, powers, and equities affecting the same.

    (3) 

    • (a) The Board shall have the same power of alienating land vested in it as is conferred upon a Maori owning Maori land in severalty.

    • (b) Every such alienation shall require confirmation by the Maori Land Court in the same cases and in the same manner as if it was an alienation by a Maori owning land in severalty.

    • (c) Every instrument of alienation shall be under the seal of the Board, attested by not less than 3 of the trustees for the time being constituting the Board.

    • (d) [Repealed]

    (4) 

    • (a) The Court may from time to time, on the application of any person claiming to be interested, by order appoint a new trustee or trustees, either in substitution for or in addition to any existing trustees, and whether there is any existing trustee or not at the time of the making of the order.

    • (b) All the powers and functions of the Board shall be exercised on its behalf by a majority of the trustees for the time being.

    • (c) A contract made by the trustees on behalf of the Board, other than an alienation of land, need not be under seal, but may be made in the same manner as the like contract made between individuals.

    • (d) All acts or deeds done or made by any person acting bona fide as such trustee shall be valid notwithstanding any defect that may afterwards be found in his appointment, and the signature of any person purporting to act as such trustee shall be prima facie evidence of his being such trustee.

    (5) All land vested in the Board shall be held upon such trusts as the Court shall from time to time by order determine.

    (6) All land vested in the Board shall when so vested be and be deemed to be Maori land within the meaning of the principal Act.

    (7) All land vested in the Board shall be exempt from the provisions of the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002, and shall not be liable to be rated thereunder.

    (8) The Board may from time to time delegate any of its powers and functions (except the power to alienate land and the power of delegation contained in this subsection) to one or more committees consisting of such persons, whether trustees or not, as the Board may from time to time appoint.

    Compare: 1928 No 49 s 41

    Subsection (2)(d) was repealed by section 14(b) of the Maori Purposes Act 1964.

    In subsection (3)(b) the words The Maori Land Court were substituted for the words a Maori Land Board by section 2(2) Maori Land Amendment Act 1932 (now repealed).

    In subsection (7) the Rating Act 1967 was substituted for the repealed Rating Act 1925.

    Subsection (7) was amended, as from 1 July 2003, by section 137(1) Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 (2002 No 6) by substituting the words Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 for the words Rating Act 1967. See section 137(2) of that Act for the savings provision that provides that the changes apply for the purpose of rating in a financial year that begins on or after 1 July 2003.

    Subsection (8) was inserted by section 52 Maori Purposes Act 1947.

Hinerupe Trust (te araroa)

60 Court may vest part of Te Araroa Maori Township in trustees
  • (1) The Court is hereby authorised and empowered, upon the application of any person claiming to be interested if the Court is satisfied that the owners consent thereto, to make an order vesting the lands known as Tapuaeteao D1, Tapuaeteao D2, Tapuaeteao D3, Tapuaeteao D4, and Tapuaeteao E2, forming part of the Te Araroa Maori Township, situate in the Tairawhiti Maori Land Court District, or any of them, and herein referred to as the said land, in such persons as the Court shall decide, not exceeding 7 in number, to be called the Hinerupe Trustees (hereinafter referred to as the said trustees), upon trust for the use, benefit, and occupation of members of the Whanau-a-Tuwhakairiora Tribe.

    (2) Upon the making of an order as aforesaid, so much of the said land as is comprised therein shall cease to be a part of the Te Araroa Maori Township, and shall be freed and discharged from all right, title, and interest of the Tairawhiti District Maori Land Board or of the present beneficial owners of the said land.

    (3) Every person having any estate or interest in the said land, and who is deprived thereof or is injuriously affected by the making of an order as aforesaid, shall be entitled to compensation, provided a claim is made therefor either at the time of the making of the said order or within one month after the making thereof.

    (4) The Court shall have full power, authority, and jurisdiction to ascertain and determine what amount of compensation should be paid in respect of the matters mentioned in subsection (3) hereof, and the person entitled to be paid such compensation, and to make an order or orders awarding the compensation to the persons entitled thereto. Any sums so awarded for compensation shall be paid by the said Maori Land Board out of the funds held by the said Board on behalf of the beneficiaries of Te Araroa Maori Township in the manner and to the persons directed by the Court.

    (5) 

    • (a) The Court may from time to time, by order, appoint a new trustee or new trustees, either in substitution for or in addition to any existing trustees, and whether there is any existing trustee or not at the time of the making of the order.

    • (b) Any person so appointed shall have the same powers as if appointed by the original order.

    • (c) The Court may at any time make an order cancelling or varying an order appointing a trustee.

    • (d) The powers of the trustees may be exercised by the majority of the continuing or surviving trustees for the time being:

      Provided such powers shall not be exercisable if and whenever less than 3 trustees remain to perform the trust.

    Compare: 1927 No 67 s 45

61
  • [Repealed]

    Section 61 was repealed by section 15(17) Maori Purposes Act 1938.

62
  • [Repealed]

    Section 62 was repealed by section 6(1) Maori Purposes Act 1956.

Administration of Otaki Lands

63 Provision for recovering Maori rates due to Otaki Borough
  • (1) All land vested in the Ikaroa District Maori Land Board under the provisions of section 32 of the Maori Land Amendment and Maori Land Claims Adjustment Act 1928 (hereinafter referred to as the said section 32) shall be held by it in trust for the owners beneficially entitled thereto.

    (2) The vesting of any such land in the Board shall not affect any valid lease, mortgage, charge, or encumbrance to which the land was subject at the date of that vesting, or the right of any person to enforce a valid contract made with respect to the land before it became so vested, or to obtain confirmation of any alienation under an instrument of alienation theretofore executed.

    (3) Any Order in Council purporting to be made under the said section 32 shall be conclusive proof that all the conditions precedent to the making thereof have been duly fulfilled, and no such Order shall be questioned on any ground.

    (4) An Order in Council made under the said section 32 may at any time be amended, varied, or revoked. Upon the revocation (either wholly or in part) of an Order in Council made under the said section 32 the land affected by such revocation shall cease to be subject to this section and shall revest in the former owners as if it had never become subject to this section, save that such revesting shall not affect any valid transfer, lease, mortgage, charge, or encumbrance to which the land is then subject.

    (5) All land held by the Board under this section may be sold, leased, exchanged, or mortgaged by the Board, and the proceeds of any alienation by the Board shall be applied in the first place to payment of the expenses of administration, including a reasonable commission to the Board and all other liabilities to the Board and all rates and other outgoings due or accruing, and any balance shall be paid to the owners of the land. The Board may elect to administer any part of the land under section 523 of the principal Act, and in such case the provisions of that section shall extend and apply to such land and its management and use.

    (6) The land shall remain charged in favour of the Board with the payment of the sum paid by the Board, together with interest at the rate of $5 percent per annum, and the provisions of the principal Act as to the creation and enforcement of charges shall apply to all lands affected by this section. The Court may by order direct the amount to be so charged in respect of each parcel of land.

    (7) The Board shall not be liable for any rates in respect of any parcel of the land held by it under the provisions of this section in excess of the revenue actually received by the Board from that land during the period in which those rates became due, but the net revenue received by the Board after payment of the current year's rates received during the next succeeding period may be applied towards payment of such rates. If the rates are not paid within 2 years from the time they are assessed, they must be treated as irrecoverable and must be written off.

    (8) With regard to future rates levied upon Maori land within the Otaki Borough which is not vested in the Board the local authority, may apply to the Court to vest the land affected in the said Board, and the said land shall on the making of such order be deemed to be subject to the provisions of this section as fully and effectually as if it had been vested in the Board by Order in Council under the said section 32. The Court may by order at any time revest in the Maori owners the land so vested by Court order in the Board.

    Compare: 1928 No 49 s 32

    Subsection (7) was amended, as from 1 July 2003, by section 137(1) Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 (2002 No 6) by substituting the words If the rates are not paid within 2 years from the time they are assessed, they must be treated as irrecoverable and must be written off. for the words If such rates are not paid within 2 years from the time they are levied they shall be deemed to be irrecoverable and shall be written off. Section 105 of the Rating Act 1925 shall not apply to lands vested in the Board under this section..

    Subsection (8) was amended, as from 1 July 2003, by section 137(1) Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 (2002 No 6) by omitting the words instead of proceeding under section 109 of the Rating Act 1925. See section 137(2) of that Act for the savings provision that provides that the changes apply for the purpose of rating in a financial year that begins on or after 1 July 2003. Section 109 of the Rating Act 1925 had no corresponding provision in the Rating Act 1967.

64
  • [Repealed]

    Section 64 was repealed by section 6(1) Maori Purposes Act 1956.

65
  • [Repealed]

    Section 65 was repealed by section 28(1) of the Ngaitahu Trust Board Act 1946.

Kaiapoi Reserve Board

66 Old Maori Pa at Kaiapoi to be a reserve under control of Kaiapoi Reserve Board
  • (1) The land known as the old Maori Pa at Kaiapoi, containing 11 acres or thereabouts, and situate in the Rangiora Survey District and called Reserve 873A, is hereby declared to be held by Her Majesty the Queen as a reserve for the benefit of the Maoris to whom the same was promised or their descendants.

    (2) The land and water known as the Waikuku Lagoon, containing 24 acres or thereabouts, situated in Block VIII, Rangiora Survey District, and being the balance or southern portion of Reserve 1873, is hereby declared to be held by Her Majesty the Queen as a reserve for the same purposes and persons as is prescribed in subsection (1) hereof.

    (3) The control and management of the said reserves shall vest in a Board of Managers called the Kaiapoi Reserve Board (hereinafter referred to as the said Board), consisting of—

    • (a) The District Court Judge for the time being exercising jurisdiction at Kaiapoi, or if there be no such appointment, then the senior District Court Judge at Christchurch or such other District Court Judge as he shall appoint.

    The District Court Judge so acting shall be the Chairman of the said Board:

    • (b) The members of Parliament for the time being for the Southern Maori Electoral District and for the Kaiapoi Electoral District, or such other districts as shall replace them and have the said reserves within their boundaries:

    • (c) Three other persons to be appointed by the Minister of Maori Affairs.

    (4) For any cause which may seem to be sufficient the Minister of Maori Affairs may, in writing under his hand, remove from office any member appointed under paragraph (c) of the last preceding subsection. Any vacancy caused by the death, resignation, or removal of any such member may be filled by the Minister of Maori Affairs.

    (5) The said Board, with the approval of the Governor-General in Council, may from time to time make bylaws for—

    • (a) The management, preservation, and disposition of the said reserves or any part thereof:

    • (b) The governing and control of all persons, horses, carriages, and vehicles using or frequenting the same:

    • (c) The fixing of an entrance fee for admission thereto:

    • (d) Regulating the time of admission and exclusion:

    • (e) The depasturing of cattle thereon:

    • (f) The exclusion of dogs or other animals therefrom, and their destruction if intruding thereon:

    • (g) The prevention of any nuisance:

    • (h) The grant or regulating of fishing privileges:

    • (i) Generally regulating the use of the said reserves.

    (6) Any person offending against any such bylaw shall be liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding $10.

    (7) All such penalties may be recovered in a summary manner, and shall be paid to the said Board and be applied as other money is hereinafter directed to be applied.

    (8) The Board is hereby empowered to lease any portion of the said reserves for such period not exceeding 21 years and subject to such rents or conditions and in such manner or form as it may think fit.

    (9) Any instrument requiring to be executed by the Board may be executed in the name of the Board by 3 members of the Board (one of whom shall be the Chairman); and any lease may be registered and may be dealt with in the same manner as if it were a lease of Crown lands granted by a Land Board, but the provisions of the Land Act 1924 shall not otherwise apply to any such lease.

    (10) All sums of money received under or by virtue of this section shall be applied in managing, administering, and improving the said reserves, and generally towards carrying into execution the purposes and objects of this section, and for any other purpose which the Minister of Maori Affairs may approve, although it may not be strictly applicable to such reserves or to the persons intended to benefit thereunder.

    (11) The Board may, if it thinks it necessary or advisable, apply to the Court to ascertain and determine who are the persons entitled to the benefit of the said reserves, and the Court shall be deemed to have jurisdiction to determine such matters and make orders accordingly. In such case it shall not be compulsory for the Court to define the relative shares in which the beneficiaries are so entitled, but the Court may in the same or any subsequent order determine such relative shares.

    Compare: 1924 No 45 s 21

    In subsection (3)(a) the references to District Court Judge were substituted for references to a Stipendiary Magistrate by section 18(2) of the District Court Amendment Act 1979.

Part 6
Miscellaneous powers and jurisdiction

67
  • [Repealed]

    Section 67 was repealed by section 6(1) Maori Purposes Act 1956.

68
  • [Repealed]

    Section 68 was repealed by section 22(5) Maori Purposes Act 1938.

69 Exempting Ngati-Tuwharetoa Tribe from paying heavy traffic fees on the Tokaanu-Waimarino Road
  • Whereas under the Tongariro National Park Act 1894 the Crown accepted the donation of an area of about 6,508 acres of land by the late Te Heuheu Tukino, Chief of the Ngati-Tuwharetoa Tribe, for the purposes of a National Park: And whereas lands including the aforesaid area were set apart as a reserve under the Tongariro National Park Act 1922, and the control thereof was placed under the Tongariro National Park Board: And whereas such Board may lease portions of such lands and issue licences and otherwise derive revenue from such lands: And whereas the Ngati-Tuwharetoa Tribe is being called on by the Crown to pay fees in respect of its 2 ton motor lorry used for the purpose of transporting for such Tribe the necessaries of life over the Tokaanu-Waimarino Road: And whereas it is expedient that payment of such fees should be remitted: Be it therefore enacted as follows:

    No heavy traffic fees shall be payable to the Crown in respect of one only 2 ton motor lorry used on the Tokaanu-Waimarino Road by or for the purposes of the Ngati-Tuwharetoa Tribe or any member of such tribe, or any association or company composed principally of members of such Tribe.

    Compare: 1924 No 45 s 36

70
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 70 and 71 were repealed by section 23(3) Maori Purposes Act (No 2) 1973.

71
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 70 and 71 were repealed by section 23(3) Maori Purposes Act (No 2) 1973.

72
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 72 and 73 were repealed by section 26 Maori Purposes Act 1933.

73
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 72 and 73 were repealed by section 26 Maori Purposes Act 1933.

74
  • [Repealed]

    Section 74 was repealed by section 6(1) Maori Purposes Act 1956.

75
  • [Repealed]

    Section 75 was repealed by section 26 Maori Purposes Act 1933.

76
  • [Spent]

77
  • [Repealed]

    Section 77 was repealed by section 6(1) Maori Purposes Act 1956.

78
  • [Repealed]

    Section 78 was repealed by section 25 Maori Purposes Act 1933.

79
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 79 and 80 were repealed by section 6(1) Maori Purposes Act 1956.

80
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 79 and 80 were repealed by section 6(1) Maori Purposes Act 1956.

81
  • [Repealed]

    Section 81 was repealed by section 26 Maori Purposes Act 1933.

82 Sections 125 and 128 of Public Works Act 1928 (relating to roads), not to apply to sale or subdivision of land situate within Ohinemutu Pa
  • Sections 125 and 128 of the Public Works Act 1928 (relating to roads), shall not apply to the sale or subdivision of any portion of the land situate within what is generally known as the Ohinemutu Pa or Village, bounded as follows: Towards the east by Lake Rotorua; towards the north by the Utuhina Stream; towards the west and south-west by the main Tauranga-Rotorua road, commencing where the said road crosses the Utuhina Stream, and continuing past the Lake House to where the road passes down to the public wharf at Rotorua; and thence on the south by the last-mentioned road to Lake Rotorua.

    Compare: 1921-22 No 62 s 21

83
  • [Repealed]

    Section 83 was repealed by section 6(1) Maori Purposes Act 1956.

84 Authorising Court to confer easement in respect of Matata Water Supply
  • Whereas by section 74 of the Reserves and Other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1922 it is enacted that the Governor-General may confer certain powers upon the Whakatane County Council (hereinafter referred to as the said Council) with respect to the supply of water for domestic purposes for the Town of Matata and the district adjoining (hereinafter referred to as the said water supply): And whereas it is desirable to give the said Council powers to obtain pipeline easement and other rights and appurtenances over Maori land through which the pipeline connected with the said water supply passes: Be it therefore enacted as follows:

    (1) The Court is hereby authorised and empowered to grant to the said Council by order an easement in perpetuity or for a limited term for the use, occupation, and enjoyment of any Maori land whereon or whereunder any pipeline connected with or appertaining to the said water supply shall be, together with the right to enter upon such land or through or over any adjoining land for the purpose of altering, renewing, repairing, or cleansing such pipeline, subject to such terms and conditions as the Court may think fit to impose.

    (2) Any order made granting rights as aforesaid may be registered against the land which it affects, and it shall not be necessary in the case of land subject to the Land Transfer Act 1915, to produce any certificate of title for the purpose of such registration.

    (3) If the said Council ceases for a period of 2 years to use any land in respect of which an order granting rights as aforesaid has been made, such land shall (subject, however, to any special conditions contained in the order made in respect thereof) upon the expiration of such period of 2 years revert to the then owner of the land over which the same was originally ordered, but the said Council shall not be liable to the owner or any other person for so ceasing to use the land. Upon proof to his satisfaction that the right has so reverted to the owner the District Land Registrar may enter upon the Register a memorandum thereof, and such right shall thereupon be deemed to have been determined.

    (4) The Council or any person interested may at any time apply to the Court for the surrender of any right granted hereunder, and the Court may order that the land therein mentioned shall cease to be subject to the right or easement, and any such order may be registered accordingly.

    Compare: 1924 No 45 s 30

85
  • [Repealed]

    Section 85 was repealed by section 26 Maori Purposes Act 1933.

86
  • [Repealed]

    Section 86 was repealed by section 6(1) Maori Purposes Act 1956.

87
  • [Repealed]

    Section 87 was repealed by section 26 Maori Purposes Act 1933.

88 Provision with regard to Arawa Lakes
  • (1) The Governor-General may reserve any portion of the bed of any of the lakes referred to in section 27 of the Maori Land Amendment and Maori Land Claims Adjustment Act 1922, or any Crown lands on the border thereof for the use of the Maoris, and may vest the management and control thereof in trustees.

    (2) [Repealed]

    Compare: 1922 No 48 s 27

    Subsection (2) was repealed, as from 26 September 2006, by section 96(1) Te Arawa Lakes Settlement Act 2006 (2006 No 43).

89
  • [Repealed]

    Section 89 was repealed by section 26 Maori Purposes Act 1933.

90 Allotting rents of Ahirau 1 and 2 Blocks for religious purposes
  • The Tairawhiti District Maori Land Board is hereby authorised to pay to such person as the Minister of Maori Affairs may, in writing, from time to time direct out of the rents and other revenues received by the said Board in respect of the land situate in the Tairawhiti Maori Land District, and known as Ahirau Nos 1 and 2 Blocks, such annual sum as the Minister may direct, either for a particular year or for any longer period, to be allocated for the support of the Waiapu Maori Pastorate (Church of England) or such other religious purpose as the Minister shall think expedient, and the Minister may at his discretion at any time and from time to time cancel the authority for any payment directed to be made by him. The receipt of the person named as the payee in any direction to the said Board shall, to the amount of any such payment, be a sufficient discharge to the said Board and to any lessee, and neither the Board nor a lessee shall be bound to inquire as to the application of the money paid under any such direction.

    Compare: 1929 No 19 s 36

91 Setting aside rents of Tapuaeroa 2A2 Block for religious purposes
  • (1) There shall be set aside out of the rents to accrue from the lease to Duncan MacMillan of the land known as the Tapuaeroa 2A2 Block, situate in the County of Waiapu, such annual sum as the Minister of Maori Affairs may from time to time direct, either for a particular year or any longer period, to be allocated for the support of the Hikurangi Maori Pastorate (Church of England), or such other religious purpose as the Minister of Maori Affairs may from time to time direct, and the Tairawhiti District Maori Land Board is hereby authorised to pay to the treasurer of the Diocese of Waiapu out of any rents received for and on behalf of the owners of Tapuaeroa 2A2 Block the sum so set aside to be applied for the purposes of the Hikurangi Maori Pastorate Fund. The receipt of the treasurer shall be a full discharge to the Board and to the lessee, and neither the Board nor the lessee shall be bound to inquire as to the application of the said sum or any part thereof.

    (2) The Minister may, in writing, direct that the provisions of this section shall apply to the rents to accrue from any subsequent lease of the said land for such term, such amount, and on such conditions as the Minister may think expedient, and thereupon the provisions of this section shall apply accordingly.

    (3) The Minister may at any time, and from time to time, in writing under his hand, direct that no further payment of the whole or any part of the annual sum so directed to be paid shall thereafter be paid to the said treasurer, and thereupon from the date specified by the Minister the right to claim such money shall cease and determine to the extent of or up to the sum stated in writing by the Minister.

    Compare: 1929 No 19 s 40

92
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 92 and 93 were repealed by section 26 Maori Purposes Act 1933.

93
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 92 and 93 were repealed by section 26 Maori Purposes Act 1933.

94
  • [Repealed]

    Section 94 was repealed by section 58(5) Maori Purposes Act 1950.

95 Governor-General may prohibit alienation of Maori land bordering on Lake Waikaremoana
  • (1) The Governor-General may, on the recommendation of the Tairawhiti District Maori Land Board, make an Order in Council prohibiting all alienations of the lands hereinafter referred to or any of them. Any such Order in Council may be at any time varied or revoked.

    (2) All the provisions of sections 443 and 444 of the principal Act (relating to prohibition of alienation during negotiations for purchase by the Crown) shall apply during the currency of any such Order in Council to all Maori land affected by the Order.

    (3) The lands affected by this section are the parcels of land situated in the Waikaremoana West Survey District, and known respectively as (1) Marau, (2) Te Puna, (3) Tikitiki, (4) Takanga, (5) Hopuaruahine East, (6) Hopuaruahine West, (7) Te Apiti, (8) Mokau, (9) Whakaari, (10) Taumataua, (11) Te Maara-o-te-Atua, (12) Waipai, (13) Timi Taihoa Reserve, and (14) Patekaha Island.

96
  • [Repealed]

    Section 96 was repealed by section 6(1) Maori Purposes Act 1956.

97
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 97 to 99 were repealed by section 26 Maori Purposes Act 1933.

98
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 97 to 99 were repealed by section 26 Maori Purposes Act 1933.

99
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 97 to 99 were repealed by section 26 Maori Purposes Act 1933.

100
  • [Repealed]

    Section 100 was repealed by section 6(1) Maori Purposes Act 1956.

101
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 101 and 102 were repealed by section 26 Maori Purposes Act 1933.

102
  • [Repealed]

    Sections 101 and 102 were repealed by section 26 Maori Purposes Act 1933.

103 Providing for reservation and administration of Manukorihi Pa, Waitara
  • Whereas the Maori owners of the land known as the Manukorihi A 1 Block, described in certificate of title, Volume 99, folio 93, of the Taranaki Registry, are desirous of making a gift thereof or of some part thereof for use in connection with the Manukorihi Maori Pa: Be it therefore enacted as follows:

    (1) [Repealed]

    (2) The land known as Manukorihi A 2 Block, which was set apart and reserved as a Maori reservation by the Governor-General by Order in Council dated the 20th day of September 1926, published in the Gazette of the 23rd day of September 1926, page 2795, hereinafter referred to as Manukorihi Pa, together with any portion of the Manukorihi A 1 Block hereinbefore referred to which has been or may be set aside as a Maori reservation, shall be deemed to be one Maori reservation and to be for a meeting place for the common use of the members of the Atiawa Maori Tribe, including the beneficial owners of the said land. Any person or body corporate in which the said Manukorihi Pa is vested shall hold and administer the same accordingly, and the land comprised in the said Manukorihi Pa and any further land therein included shall be deemed to be free and exempt from payment of rates to any local authority.

    (3) It shall be in the power of the person or body corporate in whom the administration of the said Manukorihi Pa is vested to acquire by purchase, lease, or gift any land being any part of the Manukorihi A 1 Block or being land adjoining or adjacent to the said Manukorihi Pa, and when so acquired such lands shall be deemed to become a Maori reservation under the principal Act and form part of the said Manukorihi Pa.

    (4) [Repealed]

    Compare: 1930 No 29 s 26

    Section 103(1) was repealed by section 6(2)(a) Maori Purposes Act 1937.

    In subsection (3) the words under the said section two hundred and ninety-eight were omitted by section 6(2)(b) Maori Purposes Act 1937.

    Section 103(4) was repealed by section 6(2)(a) Maori Purposes Act 1937.

104
  • [Repealed]

    Section 104 was repealed by section 6 Maori Purposes Act 1956.

105 Providing for administration of Parihaka Maori Settlement
  • Whereas pursuant to section 6 of the West Coast Settlement Reserves Amendment Act 1915 the Court, by an order made on the 9th day of June 1916, purported to vest portions of the land described in the said section—namely, the parcels containing in the aggregate 451 acres and 4 perches, more or less, and designated by the Court as Parihaka Numbers 9, 10, 11A, and 51 (hereinafter referred to as the said land)—in 10 persons upon certain trusts: And whereas doubts have arisen as to the validity of such order, and it is desirable to confer upon the Court the jurisdiction herein appearing: Be it therefore enacted as follows:

    (1) Upon the commencement of this Act the said land shall cease to be subject to the West Coast Settlement Reserves Act 1892, and shall revest in the beneficial owners thereof.

    (2) 

    • (a) The order made on the 9th day of June 1916 is hereby cancelled, and the Court is directed to ascertain and determine the names and relative interests of the persons entitled as owners of the said land and to make an order accordingly. Such order shall take effect as a partition order as from the 9th day of June 1916, subject, however, to any order that may have been made under the next succeeding subsection.

    • (b) In exercising jurisdiction under this subsection the Court shall not be bound by any Crown grant or former title to the said land, nor by any previous finding of the Court, and may take into consideration the necessity of affording protection to those who have been occupying or residing upon any part of the land, and may, if it thinks it expedient, admit any such persons into the title under such conditions as it thinks fit.

    (3) 

    • (a) The Court may, notwithstanding that an order has not been made under the last preceding subsection, and without the necessity of the consent prescribed by Part 17 of the principal Act, make in respect of the owners of the said land an order of incorporation under the said Part 17.

    • (b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the said Part 17, the Committee of Management of the said land may consist of any number of persons not exceeding 10.

    (4) The Court shall have jurisdiction to inquire and determine whether any stock now or heretofore depasturing upon the said land or any stock or personal property used or employed in connection with the said land or any money in the hands of any bank, company, or person ought in its opinion to be vested in the body corporate constituted under this section, and to make one or more orders vesting the same or any part thereof accordingly; and every order shall take effect according to its tenor. The Court may, pending the settlement of any dispute regarding any money, direct that the money concerned be paid to the Maori Land Board, whose receipt shall be a sufficient discharge therefor in the same manner as if the money had been paid to the persons entitled thereto.

    (5) The parcels of land known as Parihaka 9, Parihaka 10, together with such part not exceeding 50 acres of Parihaka 11A as the Court may by its order determine, shall be hereafter exempt from rating under the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002.

    Subsection (5) was amended, as from 1 July 2003, by section 137(1) Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 (2002 No 6) by substituting the words Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 for the words Rating Act 1967. See section 137(2) of that Act for the savings provision that provides that the changes apply for the purpose of rating in a financial year that begins on or after 1 July 2003.

106
  • [Repealed]

    Section 106 was repealed by section 6(1) Maori Purposes Act 1956.

107 Exempting Maori agricultural college from rates
  • The land containing 10 acres in extent, being part of that comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 54, folio 248, of the Hawke's Bay Registry, and being part of Lot 1, on Deposited Plan Number 2142 of the Ngatarawa Number 4 Block, situate in the Hawke's Bay Registration District, and the buildings erected thereon and used for the purpose of a Maori agricultural college, shall not be rateable under the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 and are exempt from rates thereon while used for the purpose of the said agricultural college.

    Compare: 1930 No 29 s 32

    Section 107 was amended, as from 1 July 2003, by section 137(1) Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 (2002 No 6) by substituting the words rateable under the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 and are exempt from for the words rateable property within the meaning of Rating Act 1967 and shall be exempted from the levy or payment of. See section 137(2) of that Act for the savings provision that provides that the changes apply for the purpose of rating in a financial year that begins on or after 1 July 2003.

108
  • [Repealed]

    Section 108 was repealed by section 62(8) Maori Purposes Act 1950.

(h) Matters affecting South Island District

109
  • [Repealed]

    Section 109 was repealed by section 6(9) of 1983 No 146.

110 South Island landless Maoris' lands enabling
  • Whereas under the South Island Landless Natives Act 1906 (since repealed), and under section 88 of the Reserves and Other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1916, authority was given to provide land for landless Maoris as therein mentioned: And whereas various areas of Crown land in pursuance of the powers in that behalf have been or may be permanently reserved for the purpose: Be it therefore enacted as follows:

    (1) Where the names of persons deemed to be beneficial owners of any land so reserved as aforesaid, or any part thereof, have been published in the Gazette or Kahiti and titles therefor have not already been issued, the District Land Registrar of the appropriate land registration district is authorised, on the request of the Minister of Maori Affairs or any person interested, to issue a certificate of title vesting any part of such land in fee simple in the persons named in such Gazette or Kahiti for an estate in fee simple as tenants in common in the relative interests set out, which relative interests shall be expressed in shares in lieu of acres. Such title shall antevest as from the date of the land being permanently reserved for the purpose.

    (2) Where the names of the persons deemed to be entitled have not been published as aforesaid and the Governor-General is satisfied that the beneficial owners have been ascertained after due inquiry, the Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, direct the District Land Registrar to issue a certificate of title for any such land to which they may be found entitled to the persons so deemed to be entitled, and the District Land Registrar is authorised to issue certificates of title accordingly, vesting the land in the persons entitled as tenants in common in the relative interests set out. Such title may be antevested to any date named in the Governor-General's Warrant.

    (3) All titles issued under the preceding subsections shall have a memorial endorsed thereon that they are issued under and subject to the provisions of this section. Such titles may issue although persons named therein may be deceased, and the interest of any person so deceased shall enure for the benefit of any successor appointed by the Court.

    (4) All land permanently reserved and allocated in favour of landless Maoris under the enactments in this section first recited (whether titles are issued under this section or otherwise) shall be deemed to be Maori land within the meaning of the principal Act.

    (5)  The said land, or any interest therein, may be acquired by and alienated to the Crown as fully and freely and in the same manner as if it was ordinary Maori land or land within the meaning of the principal Act and any statutory provision to the contrary is declared not to affect such lands.

    (6) If and whenever the said land or any portion thereof is not the subject of an alienation or is not in the occupation of any of the beneficial owners, the Governor-General may, by Order in Council published in the Gazette, resume such land or any part thereof, and thereupon the said land shall again become Crown land freed and discharged from any right or claim thereto by the beneficial owner. The former beneficial owners thereof shall be entitled to compensation as if the land had been taken for a public work, and all the provisions of the Public Works Act 1928 as to payment and assessment of compensation shall apply accordingly.

    (7) Where the Court is satisfied that any beneficial owner cannot be found and that it is in the interests of the owner or in the public interest that the land should be alienated, it may make an order appointing the Maori Trustee to execute as agent and in the name of the owner any instrument of alienation, which instrument may be confirmed, and shall thereupon have the same force and effect, and may be registered in the same manner, as if executed by the owner. All proceeds of any such alienation shall be paid to the Maori Trustee, who shall hold the same in trust for the person beneficially entitled thereto. The death of the owner, either before or after the granting of such Court order, shall not invalidate any alienation entered into in good faith.

    (8) All land referred to in this section shall be deemed to be subject to the operation of section 30 of the Mining Act 1926.

    (9) Where any land permanently reserved pursuant to the enactments referred to in the recital to this section has not been allocated, that land may be dealt with as if it were ordinary Crown land subject to the Land Act 1948.

    Compare: 1923 No 32 s 17(1)-(8)

    In subsection (4) the words and so far as their interest in such land is concerned the beneficial owners, if descendants of Maoris, shall be deemed to be Maoris within the meaning of the principal Act, and all the provisions of the principal Act, as modified hereby shall apply accordingly were omitted by section 18(1) Maori Purposes Act 1960.

    In subsection (5) the words Notwithstanding anything in the principal Act contained, no alienation hereafter made by way of sale or exchange of land mentioned in the last preceding subsection to any person other than the Crown shall be valid without the consent of the Governor-General in Council were omitted by section 30(3) Maori Purposes Act 1959.

    Subs (9) was added by section 15 Maori Purposes Act 1966. See also section 88 of the Reserves and Other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1916 for authority to award land in such cases.

111 Mahakipawa Maori burial ground set aside as a cemetery may be used by Maoris
  • (1) With regard to all that parcel of land in Block IX, Linkwater Survey District, being Section 39, adjoining Sections 11 and 27 of that survey district, and known as the Mahakipawa Maori Cemetery, declared to be a cemetery within the meaning of the Cemeteries Act 1908, it shall be the duty of the trustees appointed in respect of such cemetery to protect, as far as possible, the graves of any Maoris buried in such cemetery.

    (2) The Maoris shall have full right of ingress and regress in and upon such cemetery for the purpose of burying their dead, subject to the supervision of the trustees, and no fees shall be chargeable for the burial of any Maori in such cemetery, or for the land required therefor.

    Compare: 1929 No 19 s 61

112
  • [Repealed]

    Section 112 was repealed by section 6(1) Maori Purposes Act 1956.

Part 7
General

113 Power of appointment includes power of removal
  • Words used in this Act authorising the appointment of any person by the Governor-General or by the Minister of Maori Affairs shall include the power to remove or suspend him, or reappoint or reinstate him, or appoint another person in his stead, in the discretion of the authority in whom the power of appointment is vested, and in like manner to appoint another in place of any deceased, absent, or otherwise incapacitated holder of such appointment.

114
  • [Repealed]

    Section 114 was repealed by section 53(1) Maori Trustee Act 1953.

115
  • [Repealed]

    Section 115 was repealed by section 6(1) Maori Purposes Act 1956.

116
  • [Repealed]

    Section 116 was repealed by section 57(1) Maori Trust Boards Act 1955.

117
  • [Repealed]

    Section 117 was repealed by section 473(1) Maori Affairs Act 1953.

Repeals

118 Repeals
  • (1) The Acts referred to in the Schedule hereto are hereby repealed to the extent indicated, and in any case in which the extent of the repeal is not specified the whole of the Act is hereby repealed.

    (2) Notwithstanding the repeal of any such Act or portion thereof, every power and act which may be necessary to complete, carry out, or compel the performance or exercise of any statutory power or authority granted by the repealed enactment and in force at the time of its repeal shall, in so far as they are not inconsistent with this Act, continue and be in force for the purpose of continuing and perfecting any act, matter, or thing thereunder, or for the purpose of holding any inquiry or the investigation, issue, or registration of any title thereunder.

    (3) When the Governor-General is authorised under any Act hereby repealed to make, grant, or issue his Warrant for the issue of a certificate of title in favour of any person, he may act in pursuance of that authority in the same manner as if this Act had not been passed.

    (4) Where any provision in any Act other than the Acts mentioned in the Schedule hereto has heretofore been amended or modified by any of those Acts, and such amendment or modification is subsisting at the passing of this Act, the repeal shall not operate to repeal any such amendment or modification but the same shall continue to have effect as if this Act had not been passed.


Schedule
Enactments repealed

Section 118

  • 1896, No 18 (Local)—The Horowhenua Block Act 1896.

  • 1902, No 56—The Native and Maori Land Laws Amendment Act 1902.

  • 1903, No 92—The Maori Land Laws Amendment Act 1903.

  • 1906, No 51—The Maori Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act 1906.

  • 1906, No 1 (Local)—The Horowhenua Block Act Amendment Act 1906.

  • 1907, No 69—The Ngatimaru Landless Natives Act 1907.

  • 1907, No 70—The Purangi Landless Natives Act 1907.

  • 1907, No 76—The Maori Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act 1907.

  • 1908, No 253—The Maori Land Laws Amendment Act 1908: Except sections 1 and 37.

  • 1908, No 19 (Local)—The Waipuka Block Road Revesting Act 1908.

  • 1908, No 35 (Local)—The Otago Heads Native Reserve Road Act 1908.

  • 1910, No 82—The Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1910.

  • 1910, No 10 (Local)—The Kaiapoi Reserve Act 1910.

  • 1911, No 35—The Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1911.

  • 1912, No 25 (Local)—The Kaiapoi Reserve Act 1912.

  • 1913, No 71—The Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1913.

  • 1915, No 63—The Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1915: Except sections 1 and 19.

  • 1916, No 12—The Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1916.

  • 1917, No 25—The Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1917.

  • 1918, No 13—The Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1918.

  • 1919, No 43—The Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1919: Except sections 1 and 32.

  • 1920, No 63—The Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1920.

  • 1921-22, No 62—The Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1921-22: Except sections 1 and 19.

  • 1922, No 48—The Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1922.

  • 1923, No 32—The Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1923: Except sections 1 and 28.

  • 1924, No 45—The Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1924: Except sections 1 and 40.

  • 1925, No 40—The Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1925.

  • 1926, No 64—The Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1926: Except sections 1 and 14.

  • 1927, No 67—The Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1927.

  • 1928, No 49—The Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1928.

  • 1929, No 19—The Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1929: Except sections 1 and 29.

  • 1930, No 29—The Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1930: Except sections 1, 18, and 19.