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New Zealand: Acts affecting Native Lands, 1886, 1888-91 and 1894-95

Précis of "The Native Lands Protection and Administration Act."

[ko te tohutoro i roto i te reo Māori]

Précis of "The Native Lands Protection and Administration Act."

1.The colony, for the purpose of this Act, to be divided into districts,
2.For each district there shall be a Native Land Board consisting of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and two Europeans, to be appointed by the Governor, and two Natives to be elected for a term of three years by the owners of Native lands within each such district respectively.
3.The members of the Board (Europeans and Natives) shall be paid such salaries and allowances as may from time to time be fixed by the Governor out of moneys appropriated by Parliament
4.The Commissioner of Crown Lands shall, by virtue of his office, be Chairman of the Board, and shall have a casting-vote only; in his absence he may appoint one of the European members as Deputy-Chairman.
5.A Deputy-Chairman shall have a deliberative as well as a casting vote.
6.Three members, including at least one Maori, shall be a quorum.
7."The Disqualification Act, 1878," shall not apply to Maori members of the Board.
8.The adoption of this Act in any district is permissive. It may be brought into force by the Governor on the petition of any twenty or more of the Native owners.
9.On receipt of the pentition the Governor shall publish it in the Gazette and Kahiti, and call for objentions.
10.If twenty or more of the other Native owners object to the pentition the matter shall be decided by a poll of all the Native owners.
11.On the adoption of the Act in any district all Native lands, which menans papatupu and all other ands owned by Natives, shall vest in the Native Land Board, except lands purchased by Natives from the Crown or from Pakehas, or lands which the Governor in Council exempts from the Act in cases where he is satisfied that the Native owners are themselves competent to administer the same or lands subject to "The Thermal-Springs Districts Act, 1881," "The Westland and Nelson Native Reserves Act, 1887," "The West Coast Settlements Reserves Act, 1892," and "The Native Townships Act, 1895."
12.The Board shall have power to dispose of Native lands by lease, at such rentals, for such periods, and subjecrt to such conditions as are prescribed by regulations under the Act.
13.No Native lands in any district where the Act is adopted may thereafter be disposed of by way of sale, expect for completion of dealings lawfully commenced before passing of the same, or where the lands are exempted as hereinbefore provided.