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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 44
Part IV. Licenses Por Cutting Timber, Flax, and Other Purposes
Part IV. Licenses Por Cutting Timber, Flax, and Other Purposes.
Occupation licenses may be granted.
- Cutting and felling and removing timber;
- Cutting and removing flax;
- Raising of lignite or coal;
- Removal of clay for bricks or pottery;
- Removal of sand, gravel, or stone;
- Working of quarries;
- Digging for and removing kauri gum;
- Sites for saw mills, flour mills;
- Sites for tanneries, fell mongers' yards;
- Sites for slaughter-yards, brick-kilns;
- Sites for potteries, ferries, jetties;
- Sites in thinly inhabited districts for inns and accommodation-houses:
Provided that the licenses hereby authorised to be granted shall not, in the case of inns and accommodation-houses, authorise the sale of fermented and spirituous liquors. For such purposes, the law in force regulating the sale of fermented or spirituous liquors shall not be affected hereby: Provided further that a licensee under this section may, if the Board so determine, at a rental and on terms to be fixed by the Board, have a lease of the lands occupied by him under license for any term not exceeding twenty-one years.
87. The Board shall determine the extent of land to
which such license shall give a right of occupancy, and the annual fee to be charged in respect to the lands held under such license; and may make regulations prescribing the area within which such licenses shall apply, and otherwise appointing the conditions upon which such licenses shall be held: Provided always that no area granted by any license shall exceed eighty acres.
Board to limit area, and annual fee.
88. No such license shall preclude the Board, if it shall
so determine, from selling or leasing, or the Governor from including within a hundred, or reserving, or shall in any way affect the rights of the Crown to, the land occupied in virtue of such license, and such license shall cease to have any force over the lands so sold, leased, or reserved. All disputes between holders of such licenses shall be heard and decided by the Board.
Disputes decided by Board.
89. Any unlicensed person occupying or using any
Crown lands for any of the before-named purposes shall, on conviction thereof, be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, to be recovered in a summary way.
page 122Penalty on unlicensed persons.
Occupation licenses may be granted provisionally.90. It shall be lawful for the Board at its discretion to issue provisional licenses to occupy any rural land not exceeding two hundred acres for any of the purposes mentioned in the eighty-sixth section of this Act. Such licenses shall be issued for any term not exceeding three years, and the holder of a provisional license may at any time during the currency of the license apply for and, if the Board see no objection thereto, obtain a lease of the lands held under such license, and such lease shall be granted for any term not exceeding twenty-one years, at such annual rental, in such form, and subject to such conditions as the Board may determine.