(1) Except as otherwise provided by this Act, all references to a Native in any Act, regulation, rule, bylaw, order, or other enactment, or in any contract, agreement, deed, instrument, application, licence, notice, or other document whatsoever, shall, unless inconsistent with the context, be hereafter read as references to a Maori.

(2) Except as otherwise provided by this Act, wherever the term Native appears in any Act, regulation, rule, bylaw, order, or other enactment, or in any contract, agreement, deed, instrument, application, licence, notice, or other document as descriptive of any person, body, corporation, office, purpose, land, building, reserve, or place, that term shall, unless inconsistent with the context of the enactment or document, be hereafter read as the term Maori.

The Native Housing Act 1935 may hereafter be cited as the Maori Housing Act 1935.

(1) The Short Title of—

• (a) Every Act passed in amendment of any Act the Short Title of which has been altered by this Act:

• (b) Every Native Purposes Act:

• (c) Every Native Land Claims Adjustment Act:

• (d) Every Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act—

shall be deemed to be amended by the substitution of the word “Maori” for the word “Native”, and each of those Acts may hereafter be cited accordingly.

(2) Where the name of any Court, office, Department, functionary, Board, or Corporation has been changed by this Act or by virtue of this Act,—

• (a) All references to any such Court, office, Department, functionary, Board, or Corporation in any Act, regulation, rule, bylaw, order, or other enactment, or in any contract, agreement, deed, instrument, application, licence, notice, or other document whatsoever, shall, unless inconsistent with the context, hereafter be read as references to the particular Court, office, Department, functionary, Board, or Corporation as it or he will be called after the passing of this Act:

• (b) Any such change of name shall not affect any of the rights, powers, jurisdiction, functions, duties, or obligations of any such Court, office, Department, functionary, Board, or Corporation.

Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this Act shall apply to the Cook Islands Act 1915, or the Samoa Act 1921.

Words and expressions used in Parts 2, 3, and 4 of this Act shall, unless the contrary intention appears, have the same meaning as in the Maori Land Act 1931 (in those Parts referred to as the principal Act), and the provisions of the principal Act, so far as applicable, shall extend and apply to the cases hereinafter provided for by this Act in as full and ample a manner as if Parts 2, 3, and 4 of this Act had been incorporated with and formed part of the principal Act.

(1) [Repealed]

(2) [Repealed]

(3) [Repealed]

(4) [Repealed]

(5) Section 11 of the Rotorua Borough Act 1922 is hereby repealed.

(1) The Court shall have and be deemed to have had power to make an order vesting the land described in subsection (14) of this section in trust for the purposes of a park and recreation ground in the persons named in the order as trustees.

(2) The Court may make an order incorporating the said trustees, and thereupon the trustees and their successors in office shall be deemed to be incorporated as a Board under the name of the “Tikitiki Memorial Park Board”.

(3) The Board incorporated under this section 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.

(4) 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.

(5) With respect to the alienation of land to which this section relates the following provisions shall apply:

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

• (b) Every such alienation shall require confirmation by the Court in the same cases and in the same manner as if it were 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]

(6) 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 or not there is any existing trustee at the time of the making of the order.

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

(8) A contract made by 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.

(9) 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.

(10) All acts or deeds of any person acting bona fide as a 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 a trustee shall be prima facie evidence of his being a trustee.

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

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

(13) 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.

(14) The land referred to in subsection (1) hereof is particularly described as follows:

All that land situated in Block VI, Waiapu Survey District, containing 15 acres 1 rood and 26 perches, more or less, called or known as Tikitiki A 20 (Matakupenga Sports Ground) Block, and being the whole of the land comprised in an order of the Court on consolidation made on the 8th day of November 1940.