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(1) Subject to subsections (2) to (4), the Maori Reservations Regulations 1994 (SR 1994/57) are deemed to be, and to have always been, valid.
(2) Regulation 3 of the Maori Reservations Regulations 1994 is amended, as from the commencement of those regulations, by revoking paragraph (d).
(3) Despite subsection (2),—
(a) the action of any person, in vacating office before the commencement of this Act, in accordance with regulation 3(d) of the Maori Reservations Regulations 1994, is deemed to be, and to have always been, valid:
(b) the action of any person, in declining to vacate office in accordance with regulation 3(d) of the Maori Reservations Regulations 1994, is deemed to be, and to have always been, valid:
(c) the action of the Court, in appointing any person as a trustee of a Maori reservation in the place of a person who has, before the commencement of this Act, vacated office in accordance with regulation 3(d) of the Maori Reservations Regulations 1994, is deemed to be, and to have always been, valid.
(4) Despite subsections (2) and (3), a trustee of a Maori reservation who has, before the commencement of this Act, vacated office in accordance with regulation 3(d) of the Maori Reservations Regulations 1994 is not entitled, and is deemed never to have been entitled,—
(a) to be reinstated in office; or
(b) to receive any compensation for loss of office by reason of his or her vacation of office in accordance with regulation 3(d).