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

1890, No. 32. An Act to amend the Law relating to Native Land

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New Zealand. Analysis.

Title.

1. Short Title.

Jurisdiction and Procedure of the Native Land Court.

2. Power of Native Land Court to be same as Supreme Court in certain cases.
3. Amendment of section 6, "Native Land Court Act 1886 Amendment Act, 1888."
4. Voluntary arrangement to be reduced to writing.

Alienation of Land.

5. Amendment of sections 21, 28, and 22, "Native Land Court Acts Amendment Act, 1889."

1890, No. 32. An Act to amend the Law relating to Native Land. Title.

[ 17 th September, 1890.

Be It 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 Native Land Laws short Title. Amendment Act, 1890."

Jurisdiction and Procedure of the Native Land Court.

2. The Native Land Court shall have the same power as the Power of Native Land Court to be same as Supreme Court in certain cases. Supreme Court to grant probates of wills and letters of administration of the estates and effects of Natives dying within New Zealand before or after the passing of this Act, and such probate and letters of administration shall have the same force and effect as if the same had been granted by the Supreme Court.
3. Section six of "The Native Land Court Act 1886 Amendment Amendment of section 6 "Native Land Court Act 1886 Amendment Act, 1888." Act, 1888," shall be read and construed as if the words beginning "and that, as to the land the subject of the restriction to be removed, those appearing as owners and all others having a beneficial interest concur in the proposed removal," had been omitted from the proviso to the said section at the passing of the said Act.
4. The terms of an arrangement voluntarily come to by the Voluntary arrangement to be reduced to writing. Natives or by the Natives and Europeans concerned in any proceeding before the Court shall be reduced to writing, and signed by all the parties thereto; and the Court shall be satisfied of the authenticity of the signatures and the bona fides of such arrangement before the same is given effect to by the Court in pursuance of the provisions of section fifty-nine of "The Native Land Court Act, 1886."