The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Immigrants Land Act Amendment Act, 1875.”

In any case where any person who, since the passing of the said Act and prior to the coming into operation of this Act, has paid his own passage to the colony with the intention of settling upon and cultivating land therein, and who has omitted to obtain any certificate, or to do any other act by the said Act required, to entitle him to a free grant of land thereunder, whether such omission shall have occurred prior to or after arrival in the colony, it shall be lawful for the Governor, by Order in Council, on receiving proof that such person had a bonâ fide intention to comply with the said Act, to direct and declare that such person shall have and be entitled to all the privileges and benefits which he would have had under the said Act but for such omission as aforesaid.

Every such Order in Council shall state specifically the nature of the omission in respect of which such Order shall be made, and shall be forthwith published in the New Zealand Gazette, and thereupon the person named in such Order in Council shall have all such privileges and benefits which he would have had but for such omission as aforesaid.