New Zealand Legislation: Regulations
Regulations are laws made under Acts
(1) A Judge may at any time before the commencement of any sitting of the Maori Land Court or the Maori Appellate Court,—
(a) Adjourn the sitting either sine die or to some specified time or place; or
(b) Cancel the sitting.
(2) Any person authorised in that behalf by the Chief Judge or the Judge presiding may open or adjourn any sitting of the Maori Land Court.
(3) After the commencement of any sitting of the Maori Land Court or Maori Appellate Court, the presiding Judge, or in the absence of the presiding Judge any person authorised by the presiding Judge, may adjourn the sitting either sine die or to some specified time or place, or may so adjourn any part or parts of the business notified to be dealt with at the sitting.
(4) The Registrar shall give notice of any adjournment or cancellation made under this rule in such manner as the Chief Judge or any other Judge may direct.
(5) Any matter adjourned sine die may be heard at such time and place and upon such notice to the parties as the Court may direct.
(6) The Maori Land Court in any district may adjourn any matter to be heard and determined wholly or in part in any other district, subject to the consent of the Court in that other district to hear and determine the same.
(7) Where the hearing of the whole or part of any matter is adjourned under subclause (6) of this rule, the Registrar of the Court in which the matter is pending shall send to the Registrar of the other district in which the whole or part of that matter is to be heard and determined all the documents relating to that matter. The Registrar of the Court in the district in which the whole or part of the matter is to be heard and determined shall, after entering the matter in the records of the Court, notify it in terms of rule 26 of these rules, and all subsequent proceedings in relation to that matter or that part of that matter shall be taken in that Court.
Compare: SR 1958/162, r 11; SR 1977/140, r 4