The Short Title of this Act is “The Maori Lands Administration Amendment Act, 1901”; and it shall form part of and be read together with “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900” (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Act”).

The Governor in Council may from time to time alter or amend the boundaries of any district proclaimed under section five of the principal Act.

Nothing in section five of the principal Act shall be deemed to impede or bar, or to have impeded or barred, the operation of the principal Act in any district proclaimed since the passing of that Act, notwithstanding that in the meantime less than six districts may have been so proclaimed.

Section twenty-two of the principal Act is hereby repealed, and the following substituted in lieu thereof:—

Subsection five of section twenty-five of the principal Act is hereby repealed, and the following substituted in lieu thereof:—

Section twenty-eight of the principal Act is hereby repealed, and the following substituted in lieu thereof:—

Subsections one and two of section thirty-five of the principal Act are hereby repealed, and the following substituted in lieu thereof:—

The principal Act is hereby further amended as follows:—

As to section three thereof: By repealing the interpretation of “Maori” and “Maori land,” and substituting the following:—

And by adding the following new interpretation

As to section five thereof: By repealing the words “be in full force,” and substituting in lieu thereof the words “thereupon come into operation.”

As to subsection six of section seven thereof: By repealing the word “Maori,” and substituting in lieu thereof the word “person.”

As to subsection nine of the same section: By inserting, after the words “shall be held on,” the words “some convenient day to be fixed by the Governor, being not later than.”

As to subsection eleven of the same section: By repealing all the words after the word “Governor.”

As to section nineteen thereof: By adding at the end of the section the words “subject always to the right of appeal as provided by section ten hereof.”

As to section twenty-three thereof: By inserting at the end of that section the words “or a certificate of a Judge of the Native Land Court that he is satisfied, after due inquiry, that the Maori alienating has sufficient other lands for his maintenance and support, or for the purposes of a papakainga.”

As to subsection one of section twenty-six thereof: By repealing the word “European,” and substituting in lieu thereof the word “person.”

As to subsection two of the same section: By repealing the subsection.

As to subsection three of the same section: By repealing the word “void,” and substituting in lieu thereof the words “the land, in the case of purchase, may by Order in Council be vested in the Crown or Council for the benefit of landless Maoris, or for such other purposes as may be prescribed in such Order.”

As to section twenty-nine thereof: By adding the following words at the end of subsection one: “The Council shall have full power and authority, at the like request of a majority of owners, to set apart any portion of such land as a site for a Native township, and may do or cause to be done all things necessary for surveying such site, laying it off into a township, leasing, and otherwise dealing with the same, in like manner, mutatis mutandis, as Native land is set apart, surveyed, laid off, leased, and otherwise dealt with under ‘The Native Townships Act, 1895’”; and by adding the following subsection:—

As to section thirty-three thereof: By adding at the end of the section the words “unless commenced before the passing of this Act, or effected without the intervention of the Council.”