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

1888, No. 35. An Act to amend and repeal the Acts providing for the Payment of Rates in respect of Crown Lands and Native Lands

1888, No. 35. An Act to amend and repeal the Acts providing for the Payment title of Rates in respect of Crown Lands and Native Lands.

[30th August,1888.

Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the sam, as follows:

1.	The Short Title of this Act is "The Crown and Native Lands Short title.Rating Act Repeal Act,1888."
2.	This Act Shall have retrospective operation and be deemed Commencement of Act. have come in to force on the first day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.
3.	On the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and Repeal of crown and Native Lands Rating Act from 31st March 1888. ninety, "The Crown and Native Lands Rating Act, 1882," and "The Crown and Native Lands Rating Act 1882Amendment Act, 1883Shall be and the same are hereby respectively repealed.
4.	The repeal effected by this Act shall not (1.) Affect the recovery by the Colonial Tresurer of any rates that may have been or shall hereafter be paid by him in respact of Native lands, but all moneys paid in respact of such rates shall be recoverable by or on behalf of the Colonial Treasurer as if this Act had not passed; (2.) Affect any rate made and levied prior to the day when such repeal takes effect, and due and payble to any local body, whether in respect of Crown lands or Native lands, and every such rate may be paid, received, and recovered as if this Act had not passed; (3.) Affect any bond, debenture, or others security already given, or which may be given, by any local body in accordance with any law in force prior to the day when such repeal takes effect, and by virtue of which law the whole or any page 4part of any rate payable in respect of Crown lands or Native lands under the Acts hereby repealed are or may be made the whole or part of the security for the payment of any such bond, debenture, or other security, or the interest and sinking fund to accrue due thereon respectively; and in any such case such rates shall continue to be levied, paid, and recovered as if this Act had not been passed. (4.) Affect the liability of Crown lands or Native lands to rates or to be exempted from rates, as the case may be, under any other Act or law in force at the date when such repeal takes effect.
5.	Native lands in boroughs to be rateable.Notwithstanding the provisions of this or any other Act, all Native lands situate within a borough shall be rateable property under any Act for the time being in force regulating the making, levying, or recovery of rates in a borough.
6.	The amount of rates payable to local bodies by colonial Treasurer. The amount of rates to be paid in respect of Crown lands to local bodies by the Colonial Treasurer under "The Crown and Native Lands Rating Act, 1882,"— (1.) For the year commencing on the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, and ending on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, shall not exceed one half of the amount of rates certified by the Property-tax Commissioner under the said Act, to be lawfully payable for or in respect of such year; and (2.) For the year commencing on the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and ninety, shall not exceed one-fourth of the amount of rates certified as aforesaid to be lawfully payable for such year.
7.	Expenditure of rates derivable from Native lands. Rates derivable from Native lands under the said Act shall be spent only on roads for the benefit of such lands. Before any rates shall be paid to the local body, a scheme of the Proposed expenditure approved by the country council or Road Board shall be submitted to, and approved by, the Serveyor-General.

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