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Acts Affecting Native Lands, Etc. (In English and Maori), Passed by the General Assembly, Session 1892, 1893, 1897, 1898, 1899.
1898, No. 11. — An Act to amend "The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897."
1898, No. 11.
Title.An Act to amend "The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897."
[15th October, 1898.
Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
| 1. | short Title. The Short Title of this Act is "The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1898." |
| 2. | Scope and meaning of section three of "The native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897." Whereas doubts have arisen as to the true scope and intention of section three of "The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897": It is hereby declared and enacted that the duty payable under sub-section four of section seventeen of "The Stamp Act Amendment Act, 1885," shall not be paid, nor payable, nor be deemed to have been payable, upon any conveyance or transfer of Native land by way of trust under the aforesaid section three of "The Native Land Laws Amendment Act, 1897," but the respective duties payable under the aforesaid section seventeen and the several enactments in amendment or substitution thereof shall, according to the nature of the disposition, be payable upon any conveyance, transfer, assignment, exchange, lease, or other disposition of such Native land, or of any interest therein, from the trustee under the aforesaid section three to any person other than a Native. And the words "lands under title of any description" in the aforesaid section three shall be deemed to extend to and include lands owned by or vested in any corporate body of Natives incorporated by any private, general, or special Act whatsoever. |
| 3. | Duties payable under Part III. of "The Native Land Court Act, 1894." The aforesaid duties shall, according to the nature of the disposition, be also payable upon any disposal of Native land to any person other than a Native by the Land Board under the provision in that behalf contained in Division II., Part III., of "The Native Land Court Act, 1894." |
