Preamble.Whereas certain Commissioners were, on the twenty-first day of January, nineteen hundred and seven, appointed by the Governor with intent that they should make inquiry as to the areas of Native land which are unoccupied or not profitably occupied, and as to the mode in which such lands can best be utilised and settled in the interests of the Native owners and the public good: And whereas the said Commissioners have already reported as to certain areas of the said lands, and are about to report further as to other areas thereof: And whereas it is expedient to give effect to the recommendations of the said Commissioners in manner hereinafter appearing, and to make further provision for the settlement of the lands belonging to the Native race:

Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows.—

1.	Short Title. This Act may be cited as the Native Land Settlement Act, 1907.
2.	Interpretation. In this Act, except so far as a contrary intention appears from the context or subject-matter,— "Board" means a Maori Land Board: "Commission" means the Commissioners hereinbefore referred to, and any Commissioners who may be hereafter appointed by the Governor in lieu of the said Commissioners for the purposes of this Act: "Native land" means all land owned at law or in equity by any Maori under any class of title, if the title has been ascertained, whether the said land is vested at law in the Maori owner or is held in trust for him by any trustee; but does not include any land which, although owned by a Maori, has been at any time alienated from the Crown in fee-simple to any person other than a Maori: "Maori" includes half-caste Maoris and their descendants: "Prescribed" means prescribed by regulations or by this Act: "Regulations" means regulations made by the Governor by Order in Council gazetted.
3.	Lands exempted from operation of this Act. This Act shall not apply to— (a.) Land situated in the South Island or in Stewart Island:page 3 (b.) Land vested in a Maori Land Board under any other Act: (c.) Land which is subject to or administered under any of the following Acts, that is to say:— i. The Thermal-Springs Districts Act, 1881; ii. The West Coast Settlement Reserves Act, 1892; iii. The Native Townships Act, 1895; iv. The Urewera District Native Reserve Act, 1896; v. The Kapiti Island Public Reserve Act, 1897; vi. The East Coast Native Trust Lands Act, 1902.