Maori Purposes Act 1975

21 Incorporating owners of Rangatira Blocks

• (1) The owners of the parcels of land described in Schedule 4 are hereby constituted as Maori incorporations as follows:

  • (a) the owners of the parcels of land described in Part 1 of that schedule are hereby constituted a Maori incorporation to be known as The Proprietors of Paenoa - Te Akau Block:

  • (b) the owners of the parcels of land described in Part 2 of that schedule are hereby constituted a Maori incorporation to be known as The Proprietors of Rangatira Point Block:

  • (c) the owners of the parcels of land described in Part 3 of that schedule are hereby constituted a Maori incorporation to be known as The Proprietors of Hiruharama-Ponui Block.

  (2) The parcels of land described in Schedule 4 are hereby vested in the respective incorporations designated in the headings to the 3 Parts of that schedule for, in each case, a legal and beneficial estate of freehold in fee simple, and the former owners shall, in each case, cease to have any interest therein whether legal or equitable.

  (3) The Maori freehold land vested in the incorporations constituted by subsection (1) and all other Maori freehold land subsequently vested in those incorporations by any means whatsoever shall continue to be Maori freehold land.

  (4) The objects of each Maori incorporation constituted by subsection (1) shall be as follows:

  • (a) to use and manage the land or any part thereof as a farm and to carry on any agricultural or pastoral business thereon:

  • (b) to use the land or any part thereof for the growing of timber and uses ancillary to or associated with the growing of timber:

  • (c) to arrange for the alienation of the land or any part thereof within the meaning of the term alienation as defined in section 4 of Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993.

  (5) Without limiting the effect of section 43 of the Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1967, it is hereby declared that each Maori incorporation constituted by subsection (1) may in pursuance of any 1 or more of its objects:

  • (a) subdivide for the purposes of sale all or any part of the land vested in it and employ persons possessing technical, professional, or commercial skill to assist with the subdivision:

  • (b) sell the sections so subdivided to any person, whether or not that person is a shareholder in the incorporation:

  • (c) sell sections to any shareholder of the incorporation on such terms and conditions as it thinks fit, including a term requiring the shareholder to transfer shares to the incorporation in complete or partial satisfaction of the purchase price.

  (6) The proviso to section 48(1) of the Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1967 shall apply to any sale of land pursuant to this section.

  Section 21(4)(c): amended, on 1 July 1993, pursuant to 362(2) of Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993 (1993 No 4).