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Acts Affecting Native Lands, Etc. (In English and Maori), Passed by the General Assembly, Session 1892, 1893, 1897, 1898, 1899.

1892, No. 47. — An Act to amend "The Mining Act, 1891."

1892, No. 47.
An Act to amend "The Mining Act, 1891."Title.

[11th October, 1892.

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 Mining Act Amendmentshort Title. Act, 1892." It shall be read together with "The Mining Act, 1891," herein referred to as "the principal Act."
3. The principal Act is hereby amended as follows:—Principal Act amended in respect to:
(2.)In respect of special claims and licensed holdings:
(b.)Section seventy-one, subsection one thereof: AllSpecial claims and licensed holdings. the words after the words "but if such land be Native land" shall be omitted, and the following shall be substituted: "The rent to be paid shall be one shilling per annum in respect of every acre and fractional part of an acre during the whole term of the license, and the licensee shall, in addition to such rent, in each year of the aforesaid term, take out as many miners' rights, each of the value of twenty shillings, as there are or may be men employed during such year in mining, either on wages or as tributers or contractors, on the land comprised in the license; and all such miners' rights as last aforesaid shall be taken out in the name of the owner," and the revenue received for such miners' rights shall be paid to the Native owners of the land.
16.
On the investigation of title or partition ofNative Land Court may be order declare any Native land to be ceded to Her Majesty for mining purposes. any block of Native land the Native Land Court may, on the application of the Governor, with the consent of a majority of the Native owners, by order declare the whole or any portion of such land to be ceded to Her Majesty for mining purposes, for such term and on such conditions as may be agreed upon between the Governor and a majority of the Native owners.
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On the like application, due notice of which shall have previously been given in the Kahiti and Court notices, the Court may by order, with the consent of a majority of Native owners, declare any block of Native land, or any portion thereof, the title to which has heretofore been investigated or partitioned, to be ceded to Her Majesty for mining purposes in manner aforesaid.

On any such order being made, the land described therein shall thereafter be held by Her Majesty for the term and purposes and subject to the conditions respectively in such order mentioned.

17.Provisions of Ohinemuri deed of cession not to abate on extinguishment of Native title. The rights acquired by the Governor on behalf of Her Majesty under the deed of cession of the Ohinemuri Goldfields Block, dated the eighteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, as published in the Auckland Provincial Government Gazette of the eighth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, shall not abate or be prejudicially affected by reason of the extinguishment of the Native title, or the issue of a Crown grant or other instrument of title, for any portion or portions of the land comprised therein, and the said deed of cession shall from the date thereof be deemed to have been and to be valid and binding on all persons whatsoever according to the true intent and meaning of the same.