New Zealand Legislation: Acts

14 Date and term of grants

• (1) The Commissioner shall seal every grant with the seal of the Office, and endorse it with the date of its making.

  (2) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, every grant shall be in force for a term (commencing on the day it is made)—

  • (a) of 23 years, or any longer period specified in that behalf by the Governor-General by Order in Council (made before, on, or after the day that grant is made, but before that grant expires), in the case of a woody plant or its rootstock; and

  • (b) of 20 years in every other case;—

  and, unless sooner cancelled, shall then expire.

  (3) The Commissioner shall keep a register, and record in it the date and other prescribed particulars (if any) of every grant.

  Compare: 1973 No 37 s 20