Title
1 Short Title
Part 1Winding up of East Coast Maori Trust
2 [Spent]
3 [Spent]
4 [Spent]
5 [Spent]
6 [Spent]
7 [Spent]
8 [Spent]
9 [Spent]
10 [Spent]
11 [Spent]
12 [Spent]
13 [Spent]
14 [Spent]
15 [Spent]
16 [Repealed]
17 [Spent]
18 [Spent]
Part 2Miscellaneous powers
19 Provisions of Maori Land Act 1931 to apply to this Part
20 [Repealed]
21 [Repealed]
22 [Repealed]
23 [Spent]
24 [Repealed]
25 [Repealed]
26 [Repealed]
27 Maori Trustee authorised to abate charges for improvements on lands comprised in Hoia Station
28 [Repealed]
29 [Repealed]
Schedule
[Repealed]
An Act to amend the law relating to Maoris and Maori land, to confer jurisdiction upon the Maori Land Court, and for other purposes
This Act may be cited as the Maori Purposes Act 1953.
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Section 16 was repealed by section 25(1) of the Maori Purposes Act 1970.
Words and expressions used in this Part of this Act shall, unless the contrary intention appears, have the same meaning as in the Maori Land Act 1931 (in this Part referred to as the principal Act), and the provisions of the principal Act, as far as applicable, shall extend and apply to the cases provided for by this Part of this Act in as full and ample a manner as if this Part had been incorporated with and formed part of the principal Act.
Section 20 was repealed by section 6(1) of the Maori Purposes Act 1956.
Section 21 was repealed by section 57(1) of the Maori Trust Boards Act 1955.
Section 22 was repealed by section 6(1) of the Maori Purposes Act 1956.
Section 24 was repealed by section 8(2) of the Maori Purposes Act 1956.
Section 25 was repealed by section 6(1) of the Maori Purposes Act 1956.
Section 26 was repealed by section 17(1) of the Maori Soldiers Trust Act 1957.
(1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2) of this section, the Maori Trustee may, with the approval of the Board of Maori Affairs, write off in respect of the several amounts which were payable to the Maori Trustee as compensation for improvements, and which were constituted as charges on the several blocks of land referred to in subsection (3) of this section, such amounts as to him seem equitable, and, to the extent that the several amounts are so written off, the charges in respect of the blocks to which they relate shall be deemed to have been discharged accordingly.
(2) No greater amount shall be written off under the authority of this section than the amount by which the amount charged on the appropriate block exceeds the value of the improvements for which the Maori Trustee was entitled to compensation as disclosed by a valuation made under the Valuation of Land Act 1951, and adjusted as nearly as may be to the date of the expiry of the lease by which a right to compensation for improvements was conferred on the Maori Trustee.
(3) The several blocks of land to which this section relates are the blocks known as Wharekahika No 8A, Wharekahika No 8D, Wharekahika No 18J, Wharekahika No 18K, and Wharekahika No 18L, situated in the Tairawhiti Maori Land Court District, and comprising portion of the property controlled and managed by the Maori Trustee under the name of Hoia Station.
Section 28 was repealed by section 57(1) of the Maori Trust Boards Act 1955.
Section 29 was repealed by section 77 of the Maori Vested Lands Administration Act 1954.
The Schedule was repealed by section 6(1) of the Maori Purposes Act 1956.