1 Short Title and commencement

• (1) This Act may be cited as the Land Valuation Proceedings Amendment Act 1977, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Land Valuation Proceedings Act 1948 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

  (2) This Act shall come into force on the 1st day of September 1977.

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6 Amendments, repeals, and transitional provisions

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  (7) Every reference to a Land Valuation Committee in any enactment in force at the commencement of this Act (other than an enactment specified in the Schedule to this Act), or in any regulation, rule, order, agreement, deed, instrument, application, notice, licence, or other document whatsoever in force at the commencement of this Act shall, after the commencement of this Act, be read as a reference to a Land Valuation Tribunal.

  (7A) Every reference to the Administrative Division of the High Court in any enactment in force at the commencement of this Act (other than an enactment specified in the Schedule to this Act), being a reference that was substituted for a reference to the Land Valuation Court, shall, after the commencement of this Act, be read as a reference to the Land Valuation Tribunal.

  (8) Section 53 of the Servicemen's Settlement and Land Sales Act 1943 (as continued in force for the purposes of Part 10 of the Land Act 1948) shall have effect for the purposes of that Part as if for the words “Land Valuation Committee” in subsections (1) and (2) and for the word “Committee” in subsection (2)(d) there were substituted in each case the words “Land Valuation Tribunal”.

  (9) The following enactments are hereby repealed:

  • (a) So much of Schedule 2 to the Fees and Travelling Allowances Act 1951 as relates to section 19(3) of the principal Act:

  • (b) Section 3(1) of the Land Settlement Promotion and Land Acquisition Amendment Act 1963:

  • (c) The Land Valuation Proceedings Amendment Act 1965:

  • (d) Sections 9(1) and 10 of the Land Valuation Proceedings Amendment Act 1968, so much of Schedule 1 as relates to sections 21, 28, 33, and 38 of the principal Act, and so much of Schedule 2 as relates to the following enactments:

    • (i) Sections 49(1), 53, 54, 56(1), 90(1), 91(c), 98, 101, and 230(2) of the Public Works Act 1928 and Schedule 3 to that Act:

    • (ii) Section 64(1) of the Statutes Amendment Act 1939:

    • (iii) Section 4(5)(a) of the Public Works Amendment Act 1947:

    • (iv) The Maori Purposes Act 1949:

    • (v) Sections 5 and 14 of the Land Settlement Promotion and Land Acquisition Act 1952:

    • (vi) The Maori Affairs Act 1953:

    • (vii) The Public Works Amendment Act 1954.

  (10) Every Land Valuation Committee established at the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be a Land Valuation Tribunal established under section 19 of the principal Act (as substituted by section 2 of this Act), having the same name as that Committee with the substitution of the word “Tribunal” for the word “Committee” in that name, and the members thereof shall continue in office as members of the Tribunal as if they had been appointed as such under the said section 19:

  Provided that where any such Committee comprised more than one member and no member was a valuer registered under the Valuers Act 1948, a valuer so registered shall be appointed under section 19 of the principal Act (as so substituted) as a member of the corresponding Tribunal, either as an additional member in the case of a Committee that comprised 2 members or in substitution for one of the members (other than the Chairman) in the case of a Committee that comprised 3 members.

  (11) Every claim, objection, application, or other proceeding pending before a Land Valuation Committee at the commencement of this Act may be continued after the commencement of this Act as if it were pending before the corresponding Land Valuation Tribunal.

  (12) Every appeal to the Court pending at the commencement of this Act from a final order of a Land Valuation Committee may be determined after the commencement of this Act as if it were a final order of the corresponding Land Valuation Tribunal.

  (13) Subject to section 26 of the principal Act (which relates to appeals to the Court), every award or order made by a Land Valuation Committee before the commencement of this Act shall after the commencement of this Act continue in force and have effect according to its tenor as if it were an award or order of the corresponding Land Valuation Tribunal.

  Subsection (7A) was inserted, as from 23 December 1977, by section 2 Land Valuation Proceedings Amendment Act (No 2) 1977 (1977 No 157).