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Acts Affecting Native Lands, Etc. (In English and Maori), Passed by the General Assembly, Session 1892, 1893, 1897, 1898, 1899.
Part II. — Rating of Native Land
Part II.
Rating of Native Land.
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In this Part of this Act, if not inconsistent with the Interpretation. context,—
"European" means every person not a Native: "Native" means an aboriginal inhabitant of the colony, and includes a half-caste Maori: "Native land" means all land or interest in land the property of aboriginal natives of New Zealand (including in the term "aboriginal natives" all half-castes or their descendants by Natives), whether held under their own customs and usages or otherwise howsoever: "Occupier" in respect of Native land means and includes the person, whether a Native or European, by whom or on whose behalf any rateable property is actually occupied if such person is in occupation by virtue of a tenancy which was for not less than six months certain; and as to rateable property occupied by virtue of a tenancy not coming within the above description, and also in the case of unoccupied rateable property, means the owner of the same; and also any person, whether a Native or European; who is in actual or beneficial occupation, or in receipt of the rents and profits of any land over which the Native title has not been extinguished. |
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| 16. | Notwithstanding the provisions of any Act other than this Native land to be rateable property.Act, all Native land situate within any part of the colony, save as hereinafter excepted, shall be rateable property under any Act for the time being in force regulating the making, levying, or recovery of rates in any rating districts respectively. | ||||||||
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All Native land within a rating district the title to whichProvisions as to assessments and collection of rates. has been ascertained by the Native Land Court, and all Native land the title to which has not been ascertained by such Court but of which there is a European occupier as defined in section fifteen of this Act, may be assessed by any local body as herein defined within the rating district wherein the said land is situate, and rates thereon may be made, levied, and collected by such local body in like manner as land the property of or belonging to persons other than Natives.
Native land not in the occupation of persons other than Natives, except land situated within any borough, shall be liable to be rated to one-half only of the amount of rate that may be levied from time to time, and shall not be liable to any special rate. |
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| 18. |
There shall be excepted from rating under this Part of this Act all Native land— page 6
The Governor from time to time may by Order in Council revoke in whole or in part any Order in Council made under this section exempting land from rating. |
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| 19. | Native land not to be sold for rates without sanction of Trust Commissioner. No Native land whatever shall be sold for non-payment of rates, nor any judgment or lien registered against such land for non-payment of rates, unless the case has been inquired into by a Trust Commissioner under "The Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act, 1881," and he certifies that he sanctions such sale or lien. For the purpose of obtaining such inquiry every local body desiring the same shall forward their application for the inquiry by the Trust Commissioner to the Registrar of the Native Land Court for the district in which the land in question is situate; but no fee shall be charged for such inquiry. | ||||||||
| 20. | Colonial Treasurer to pay no further rates on Native land Saving. No rates shall henceforth be paid by the Colonial Treasurer under the authority of section four of "The Crown and Native Lands Rating Acts Repeal Act, 1888," in respect of any Native land upon which a local body is authorised by this Act to make, levy, and collect rates; but the said section shall continue in force as if this Act had not passed in respect to the payment of rates on all other Native land to which such section relates. | ||||||||
| 21. | Repeal. Subsection six of the exceptions from rating in the definition of "rateable property" in section two of "The Rating Act, 1882," is hereby repealed. |