Maori Purposes Act 1967 No 145 (as at 03 September 2007), Public Act

Maori Purposes Act 1967

Public Act1967 No 145
Date of assent24 November 1967

An Act to amend the law relating to Maoris and Maori land, and for other purposes

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title
  • This Act may be cited as the Maori Purposes Act 1967.

Part 1
Amendments to Maori Affairs Act 1953

2 This Part to form part of the Maori Affairs Act 1953
3 Salaries of Judges
4 Procedure at meetings of assembled owners

Part 2
Miscellaneous amendments

5 Payment to Maori Trustee of proceeds of Maori land held for six years or more
6 Maori Housing Advances
7 Training of young Maoris
8 Definition of Maori meeting place
9 Amalgamation of titles to Whanganui Vested lands
10 Disposal of Tongariro Timber Company railway land
  • (1) The Court is hereby authorised and directed, on the application of the Maori Trustee, to exercise in respect of the lands referred to in subsection (2) of this section the jurisdiction conferred upon it by section 424 of the Maori Affairs Act 1953 in the same manner as if the said lands had been comprised in an order laying out a roadway which had been cancelled by the Court; and, upon the making of any order pursuant to this subsection, the land affected thereby shall vest in the owners named in the amended instrument of title in the relative shares shown in that instrument, freed of any reservation or condition to which the land was subject immediately before the order was made.

    (2) The lands referred to in subsection (1) of this section are the several parcels comprised in certificates of title No 6A/1216 and No 6A/1217, South Auckland Land Registry, and certificate of title No 5B/908, Wellington Land Registry.

    (3) If the Court makes any order under section 435 of the Maori Affairs Act 1953 amalgamating the titles to the lands adjoining that comprised in certificate of title No 5B/909, Wellington Land Registry, the Court may, on the application of the Maori Trustee, include within the scope of the order the land comprised in that title; and any order made by the Court shall vest that land, freed of any reservation or condition to which it was subject immediately before the order was made, in the owners of the other lands in the same relative shares as the Court may fix in respect of the other lands.