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Aliens Act 1870

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Act Repealed Latest version as at 12 September 1870 (as enacted) | 1870 No 40

Aliens Act 1870

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Aliens Act 1870

Public Act
  
1870 No 40
Date of assent
  
12 September 1870
 

Contents

Title
1 Short Title.
2 Alien friend may hold real and personal property.
3 Former conveyances by aliens legalized.

An Act to remove the Disability of Aliens to hold Land in New Zealand.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows—

1 Short Title.

The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Aliens Act 1870.”

2 Alien friend may hold real and personal property.

Every alien friend resident in New Zealand may inherit or otherwise take by representation acquire hold convey assign devise bequeath or otherwise dispose of every description of property whether real or personal in the same manner as if he were a natural-born subject of Her Majesty.

3 Former conveyances by aliens legalized.

Every grant conveyance assignment demise devise or bequest to or by any such alien made prior to the passing of this Act shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been made to or by a natural-born subject of Her Majesty.
Act Repealed Latest version as at 12 September 1870 (as enacted)

Aliens Act 1870

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