Maori Purposes Act 1975

17 Status of land of Maori Incorporations

• (1) Land which is vested in any Maori incorporation at the commencement of this Act and which is European land—

  • (a) by virtue of section 31(3) of the Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1967 as originally enacted; or

  • (b) by virtue of section 68(2) of that Act; or

  • (c) pursuant to a declaration of the Maori Land Court under section 31(3) of that Act (as substituted by section 77 of the Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1974),—

  shall cease to be European land and shall, on the commencement of this Act, become Maori freehold land within the meaning of the Maori Affairs Act 1953.

  (2)–(4) Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).