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Add to web feed | Public Act | 1934 No 37 |
| Date of assent | 13 November 1934 |
An Act to amend the laws relating to Maoris and Maori land, to adjust certain claims and jurisdiction upon the Maori Land Court and the Maori Appellate Court, and for other purposes
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).
The words “Maori Land Court”
were substituted, as from 27 November 1947, for the words “Native Land Court”
pursuant to section 4(2) Maori Purposes Act 1947 (1947 No 59).
This Act may be cited as the Maori Purposes Act 1934.
Words and expressions used in this Act shall, unless the contrary intention appears, have the same meaning as in the Maori Land Act 1931 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), and the provisions of the principal Act so far as applicable shall extend and apply to the cases provided for by this Act in as full and ample a manner as if this Act had been incorporated with and formed part of the principal Act.
The Maori Land Act 1931 (1931 No 31) was repealed, as from 1 April 1954, by section 473(1) Maori Affairs Act 1953 (1953 No 94). That Act was in turn repealed, as from 1 July 1993, by section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993 (1993 No 4).
[Repealed]
Section 3 was repealed by section 473(1) of the Maori Affairs Act 1953.
[Repealed]
Section 4 was repealed by section 6(1) Maori Purposes Act 1956.
[Repealed]
Section 5 was repealed by section 6(1) Maori Purposes Act 1956.
[Repealed]
Section 6 was repealed by section 6(1) Maori Purposes Act 1956.
[Repealed]
Section 7 was repealed by section 6(1) Maori Purposes Act 1956.
Whereas in order to mark the appreciation of the Arawa Tribe for the public service of His Excellency the Governor-General and Lady Bledisloe and in recognition of the interest taken by them in matters affecting the Maori people of the Dominion, the Arawa District Trust Board has donated the historic landing-place of the Arawa Canoe for a Memorial Park: Be it therefore enacted as follows:
(1) The land situate in the Waiariki Maori Land Court District, containing 9 acres 3 roods and 17 perches, more or less, and known as the Maketu A Section 127 Block, is hereby vested in the Bledisloe Park Board constituted by this section for an estate in fee simple as and for a park or pleasure ground.
(2) The said park shall be known as the Bledisloe Park.
(3) For the purpose of administering and managing the said land there is hereby constituted a Board which shall be a body corporate under the name of The Bledisloe Park Board, with perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall be capable of holding real and personal property and of doing and of suffering all that bodies corporate may do or suffer.
(4) The Bledisloe Park Board shall consist of 9 members, of whom—
(a) One shall be the Chairman of the Tauranga County Council for the time being;
(b) Three shall be members of the Arawa Maori Tribe nominated by the Trustees of the Te Arawa Lakes Trust; and
(c) Five shall be persons nominated by the Tauranga County Council, being persons who have permanently resided in the Pongakawa, Paengaroa, Maketu, or Te Puke districts for a period of not less than 6 months immediately preceding the date of nomination.
(5) Each of the said nominated members shall be appointed by the Governor-General for such term not exceeding 3 years as the Governor-General shall determine.
(6) A nominated member may at any time resign from office by notice in writing addressed to the Chairman or Secretary of the Board, or the Governor-General may at any time remove any such member from office for any cause that he thinks fit.
(7) Any casual vacancy in the membership of the Board shall be filled in the manner in which the appointment of the member vacating office was made.
(8) Any nominated member still qualified to act whose term of office has expired shall be eligible for reappointment.
(9) The Board shall have and may exercise in respect of the said park all or any of the functions and powers which by the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928, or any other Act, are conferred upon Domain Boards in respect of public domains controlled by them.
(10) The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make all such regulations as he deems necessary for effectually carrying out the provisions of this section.
Subsection (4)(b) was amended, as from 1 January 1956, pursuant to section 4 Maori Trust Boards Act 1955 (1955 No 37) by substituting the words “Arawa Maori Trust Board”
for the words “Arawa District Trust Board”
.
Subsection (4)(b) was amended, as from 26 September 2006, by section 99(1) Te Arawa Lakes Settlement Act 2006 (2006 No 43) by substituting the words “Trustees of the Te Arawa Lakes Trust”
for the words “Arawa Maori Trust Board”
.
[Repealed]
Section 9 was repealed by section 6(1) Maori Purposes Act 1956.
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