• “(d) the making of grants towards the provision and maintenance (including the payment of existing debts) of any marae, community centre, sports ground, or cultural centre, or other centre of a similar nature, which in the Maori Trustee’s opinion is or will be principally or substantially used by Maoris or the descendants of Maoris.”

“48A

• “(1) Where any person claims, or the Maori Trustee believes a person may claim, to recover from the Maori Trustee any money, chattels, or things under $1,000 in value, as estimated by the Maori Trustee, and the Maori Trustee rejects the claim or desires to reject the claim, the Maori Trustee may serve upon the person by whom or on whose behalf the claim is made, or may be made, a notice in writing calling up such person to take legal proceedings within a period of 3 months to establish or enforce the claim and also to prosecute the proceedings with all due diligence.

  “(2) If the proceedings are not commenced by such person within the said period, the claim shall thereupon be barred, and the money, chattels, or things shall become irrecoverable, and the Maori Trustee may proceed to administer and distribute the estate disregarding the claim.

  “(3) This section shall apply to every such claim, whether arising or made before or after the commencement of this section, and whether the claim is or may be made by any person as creditor or next of kin or beneficiary or otherwise.

  “(4) The powers given by this section shall be in addition to the powers conferred by section 75 of the Trustee Act 1956.”

“24C

• Notwithstanding anything in any other provision of this Act, a Board may accept and hold or otherwise deal with any property upon trust for the benefit of the Board’s beneficiaries or any of them or for the benefit of any group of persons which includes any such beneficiaries. Any property held by a Board pursuant to this section shall be dealt with in accordance with the terms of the trust and shall not constitute an asset of the Board for the general purposes of this Act.”

“10A

• “(1) A District Maori Council may at any time, by resolution, determine that a designated Maori Committee shall have direct representation to the District Maori Council and shall, in such case, fix the manner and extent of the representation. Any such Maori Committee shall thereupon be subject in all things to the control of the District Maori Council as if the Council were a Maori Executive Committee, and the Council shall have such of the powers of a Maori Executive Committee as the Council determines.

  “(2) A determination under subsection (1) may at any time in like manner be varied or revoked.”

• “(1) The New Zealand Maori Council may at any time by resolution declare any specified part of New Zealand to be a Maori Council District for the purposes of this Act and may assign a name by which the District shall be known.”

• “(4) The New Zealand Maori Council may at any time by resolution alter the boundaries of any Maori Council district or amalgamate two or more districts or constitute a new district over part of an existing district, and may at the same time amend the name of any district or assign a new name thereto.”

• “(6) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or of any regulations made under this Act, where the members of any Maori Committee (being a committee revived after being in recess) will have been in office for less than 6 months on the date fixed by this section for the election of Maori Committees, no election of members of that Committee shall be held on that date if the District Maori Council concerned has by resolution determined that no such election be held and, in such case, the members of that committee in office on that date shall continue in office as if they had been elected on that date.”