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Acts Affecting Native Lands, Etc. (In English and Maori), Passed by the General Assembly, Session 1907.

Registration of Titles

Registration of Titles.

35.
(1.)Registrar to issue certificate of title to Maori Land Board. Whenever any land becomes subject to this Part of this Act by virtue of any Order in Council, the District Land Eegistrar of the district in which such land is situated shall, on the deposit of a copy of the said Order in Council certified under the hand of the Native Minister, register the Board in which the said land is vested as the registered proprietor thereof under the Land Transfer Act, 1885, and shall issue a certificate of title to the said Board accordingly.
(2.) There shall be written on such certificate of title a statement that it is issued under the authority of this Part of this Act, and is subject to the provisions thereof.
(3.) The said District Land Eegistrar shall at the same time cancel any other certificate of title already issued in respect of the said land, and shall transfer to the certificate so issued to the Board all entries which are contained in any certificate so cancelled and which affect the title of the Board.
(4.) No contribution to the Assurance Fund shall be made by any Board when land vested in it by virtue of this Part of this Act is so brought under the provisions of the Land Transfer Act. 1885.
(5.) No person who is deprived of any right, title, or interest in any such land by reason of any sale or lease made by the Board in pursuance of this Part of this Act shall have any claim against the said Assurance Fund.
36.Land Transfer Act to apply. All dealings with any land vested in a Board by virtue of this Part of this Act, and all rights, titles, and interests acquired in any such land, shall be subject to the provisions of the Land Transfer Act, 1885, so far as those provisions are consistent with the provisions of this Part of this Act.
37.
(1.)Contract of sale may be registered against title of Board. Notwithstanding anything in the Land Transfer Act, 1885, to the contrary, a contract of sale of land executed under the authority of this Part of this Act may be registered against the title of the Board in the same manner as a lease is so registered.
(2.) All transfers, transmissions, and other dispositions of any contract of sale so registered may be registered in the same manner as a similar disposition of a registered lease.
(3.) The registration of any such contract of sale, or of any assignment or other disposition thereof, shall have the same effect in conferring priority of title as against any unregistered right title or interest as if it were the registration of a transfer or other disposition of the legal estate in the land.