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

1889, No. 1.-Local. — An Act to validate an Order in Council and Proceedings subsequent thereto in respect of Land at Waipa

[i roto i te reo Māori]

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New Zealand. Analysis.

Title.
Preamble.
1.Short Title.
2.Order in Council validated.
3.Proceedings of Native Land Court validated. Schedule.

1889, No. 1.-Local.
An Act to validate an Order in Council and Proceedings subsequent Title. thereto in respect of Land at Waipa.

[16th September, 1889.]
Whereas by an Order in Council dated the ninth day of August,Preamble. me thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, purporting to be made in pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon the Governor by "The Native Land Court Act. 1886," after reciting that it was necessary that the ownership of certain lands, which are described in the Schedule to this Act, should be ascertained, and that it should be determined to whom and in what manner grants for the said lands should be issued, it was ordered and, declared that the investigation of the ownership of the said lands, and the determination to whom and in what manner Crown grants therefor should issue, and all matters incidental thereto respectively, should be within the jurisdiction of the Native Land Court: And whereas at a sitting of the Native Land Court at Hamilton, on the third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and following days, the said matters so ordered and declared as aforesaid were investigated and determined, and certain orders were made in relation thereto: And whereas doubts have arisen as to the validity of the said Order in Council and the subsequent proceedings in relation thereto, and it is expedient that such doubts should be removed:

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

1.The Short Title of this Act is "The Waipa Order in CouncilShort Title. Validation Act, 1889."
2.The said Order in Council is hereby declared to be and shallOrder in Council validated. be deemed to have been as valid and effectual as if the same had been duly made in pursuance of section fifty-one of "The Native Land Court Act, 1886," and as if all the requirements of the said section had been duly complied with.page 32
3.Proceedings of Native Land Court validated. The native Land Court is hereby declared and shall be deemed to have had full jurisdiction to investigatye and determine the several matters which wee by the said Order in council intended to be within the jurisdiction of the said Court; and the said orders so made by the said Court as aforesaid shall be deemed to be valide and effectual orders of the said Court, anything in any act of the General Assembly to the contrary notwithstanding.

Schedule. Schedule.

Land situate in the Parish of Waipa, in the Provincial District of Auckland:—

Allotment. Area.
No. 57 25 acres.
No. 61 456 acres.
No. 62 1,612 acres.
No. 63 3,699 acres.
No. 64 4,631 acres.
No. 66 13,587 acres.
No. 68 2 acres.