Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).

Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).

Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).

(1) Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).

(2) All money and investments which on the commencement of this Act are standing to the credit of the Assurance Fund established under section 34 of the Maori Trustee Act 1953 shall thereupon be transferred to and used for the ordinary purposes of the General Purposes Fund.

(1), (2) Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).

(3) Every Maori Warden holding office at the commencement of this Act shall, if he does not sooner vacate office, vacate office on 30 June 1976.

Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).

(1) The enactments set out in Schedule 1 are hereby amended by omitting the term “European land” wherever it occurs, and substituting in each case the term “general land”.

(2) Every reference to the term European land in any enactment, not specified in Schedule 1, or in any regulations, rule, or order or in any agreement, deed, instrument, application, licence, notice, or other document whatsoever, shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be read hereafter as a reference to general land.

(1) Land which is vested in any Maori incorporation at the commencement of this Act and which is European land—

• (a) by virtue of section 31(3) of the Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1967 as originally enacted; or

• (b) by virtue of section 68(2) of that Act; or

• (c) pursuant to a declaration of the Maori Land Court under section 31(3) of that Act (as substituted by section 77 of the Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1974),—

shall cease to be European land and shall, on the commencement of this Act, become Maori freehold land within the meaning of the Maori Affairs Act 1953.

(2)–(4) Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).

The purpose of this Part is to give effect (with some modifications) to the recommendations of the Royal Commission appointed by warrant dated 25 February 1974 to inquire into and report upon the future use of certain Rangatira Blocks situated on the shores of Lake Taupo, which recommendations are contained in the report of the Commission dated 19 September 1974 and reproduced as Parliamentary Paper H6 for the year 1974.

In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(1) The orders of the court and Maori Appellate Court specified in Schedule 2 are hereby cancelled and, subject to subsection (2), the land comprised in those orders shall hereafter be held again under the instruments of title in existence immediately before 14 November 1955 as if those orders had not been made.

(2) All orders of the court made under section 136, section 137, or section 213 of the Maori Affairs Act 1953, and any exchanges or alienations of land or interests in land (including any effected by a vesting order made under section 81 of the Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1967 or by a transmission or transfer that bears an endorsement made pursuant to to section 83(2) of the Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1967), made or effected since the date of the orders cancelled by subsection (1) but before the commencement of this Act, being orders, exchanges, or alienations which relate to any of the land comprised in the orders so cancelled, shall be deemed to relate to the respective titles formerly in existence and to the interests thereunder.

(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (2), the orders of the court made under section 438 of the Maori Affairs Act 1953 and specified in Schedule 3 are hereby cancelled and, subject to the provisions of this Part, the legal estate in the land affected by those orders shall vest in the beneficial owners as if those orders had not been made.

(1) The owners of the parcels of land described in Schedule 4 are hereby constituted as Maori incorporations as follows:

• (a) the owners of the parcels of land described in Part 1 of that schedule are hereby constituted a Maori incorporation to be known as The Proprietors of Paenoa - Te Akau Block:

• (b) the owners of the parcels of land described in Part 2 of that schedule are hereby constituted a Maori incorporation to be known as The Proprietors of Rangatira Point Block:

• (c) the owners of the parcels of land described in Part 3 of that schedule are hereby constituted a Maori incorporation to be known as The Proprietors of Hiruharama-Ponui Block.

(2) The parcels of land described in Schedule 4 are hereby vested in the respective incorporations designated in the headings to the 3 Parts of that schedule for, in each case, a legal and beneficial estate of freehold in fee simple, and the former owners shall, in each case, cease to have any interest therein whether legal or equitable.

(3) The Maori freehold land vested in the incorporations constituted by subsection (1) and all other Maori freehold land subsequently vested in those incorporations by any means whatsoever shall continue to be Maori freehold land.

(4) The objects of each Maori incorporation constituted by subsection (1) shall be as follows:

• (a) to use and manage the land or any part thereof as a farm and to carry on any agricultural or pastoral business thereon:

• (b) to use the land or any part thereof for the growing of timber and uses ancillary to or associated with the growing of timber:

• (c) to arrange for the alienation of the land or any part thereof within the meaning of the term alienation as defined in section 4 of Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993.

(5) Without limiting the effect of section 43 of the Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1967, it is hereby declared that each Maori incorporation constituted by subsection (1) may in pursuance of any 1 or more of its objects:

• (a) subdivide for the purposes of sale all or any part of the land vested in it and employ persons possessing technical, professional, or commercial skill to assist with the subdivision:

• (b) sell the sections so subdivided to any person, whether or not that person is a shareholder in the incorporation:

• (c) sell sections to any shareholder of the incorporation on such terms and conditions as it thinks fit, including a term requiring the shareholder to transfer shares to the incorporation in complete or partial satisfaction of the purchase price.

(6) The proviso to section 48(1) of the Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1967 shall apply to any sale of land pursuant to this section.

Subject to the provisions of this Part, the provisions of Part 4 of the Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1967 shall apply to the incorporations hereby constituted as if they had been constituted by order of the court.

(1) The Registrar shall, within 6 months from the date of commencement of this Act, prepare, for each incorporation constituted by this Part, an initial list of shareholders (hereinafter called the list) upon the following basis:

• (a) the list shall contain the name of every person who is an owner of a beneficial freehold interest in the land in respect of which the incorporation is constituted by this Act:

• (b) the list shall fix a total number of shares in the body corporate which shall be conveniently related to the total value of the land as fixed by a special government valuation of the capital value as defined by the Valuation of Land Act 1951 of each parcel of land as at the date of commencement of this Act:

• (c) the list shall have annexed to it a schedule which shall contain the capital value disclosed by the valuation of each respective piece of land:

• (d) the list shall allocate to each shareholder a number of shares, being as nearly as possible that proportion of the total shares which his former share in the value of the land bears to the total value of the land:

• (e) in the list the Registrar shall make any adjustment or recalculation necessary as a result of part of the land described in Schedule 4 being contained in residue titles which exist due to the continuing existence of subsequent title orders made in respect of part of the land in the original title orders at various times.

(2) For the purposes of the valuation of each parcel of land to be carried out under subsection (1), all the land to be valued shall, notwithstanding the provisions of the Valuation of Land Act 1951, be deemed to be zoned rural and not subject to any designation for a public work or public purpose under the operative district scheme prepared pursuant to the Town and Country Planning Act 1953.

On receipt of a written request from the Registrar, the Valuer-General shall within 3 months carry out the valuations for the purposes of section 23 without charge and no appeal under any statutory provision shall lie from the valuations so made.

(1) The list prepared pursuant to section 23 shall be available for inspection at the offices of the Ministry of Maori Development at Rotorua and Taupo not later than 6 months after the commencement of this Act.

(2) If any shareholder named in the list or any person claiming to have been omitted from the list believes that any of the contents of the list is erroneous, or inequitable or that there are omissions from the list he shall have the right, within 4 months of the date on which it becomes available for inspection under subsection (1), to make an application to the Maori Land Court for the Waiariki Maori Land Court District for an amendment to the list.

(3) Upon application being made pursuant to subsection (2) the court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine the application and to order the amendment of the list if, in the opinion of the court, the list contains omissions or any matter which is erroneous or inequitable.

(4) No appeal shall lie to any court from the decision of the court made hereunder and the Chief Judge of the Maori Land Court shall have no jurisdiction under section 452 of the Maori Affairs Act 1953 to hear or consider any matter arising from a decision of the court hereunder.

(5) All applications to the court made hereunder shall be heard together at a time and place fixed by the Registrar after the period specified in subsection (2) for the lodging of applications has expired.

(6) At the hearing of the applications any person named in the list, even though not a party to any application, shall be entitled to appear and be heard upon any application.

(7) Upon determination by the court of all applications made hereunder the list incorporating any amendments arising from determinations by the court shall be the list of shareholders of each incorporation to be used by the incorporation for establishing the share register.

(1) Upon determination by the court of all applications made under section 25 the court shall thereupon proceed in respect of each incorporation to fix a time and place for the holding of a general meeting of incorporated owners for the purpose of determining the number of members to comprise the committee of management and of electing a committee accordingly, and shall fix a quorum for that meeting.

(2) The Registrar shall thereupon summon the meeting by sending written notice to those incorporated owners whose postal addresses are known to him.

(3) Subject to the provisions of this Part, the Maori Incorporations Regulations 1969 shall apply to the incorporations hereby constituted and to the meetings summoned pursuant to this section.

(1) The titles to the parcels of land described in Schedule 4 are hereby amalgamated in the following manner:

• (a) the titles to parcels of land described in Part 1 of that schedule are hereby amalgamated under 1 title, and those parcels shall form a block to be known as the Paenoa - Te Akau Block:

• (b) the titles to the parcels of land described in Part 2 of that schedule are hereby amalgamated under 1 title, and those parcels shall form a block to be known as the Rangatira Point Block:

• (c) the titles to parcels of land described in Part 3 of that schedule, are hereby amalgamated under 1 title, and those parcels shall form a block to be known as the Hiruharama-Ponui Block.

(2) Each amalgamation effected by subsection (1) shall, in each case, take effect on the date on which the list prepared pursuant to section 23(1) in respect of the shareholders of the incorporation in respect of which the block is vested by this Act is made available for inspection under section 25(1).

(3) The Registrar is hereby empowered to draw and seal title orders in respect of the amalgamated titles citing the authority of this section.

(4) Any survey or compilation of plans or preparation of plans or diagrams necessary for the completion of title orders established under this section shall be carried out without charge by the Chief Surveyor for the district on the requisition of the Registrar.

(5) On the signing and sealing of any order under this section, the Registrar shall transmit the order to the District Land Registrar together with a certified copy of Schedule 4, and the District Land Registrar shall, without charge, register the order and make any amendment to the register required to give effect to the order.

(1) Upon the constitution of the Maori incorporations to be known as The Proprietors of Hiruharama-Ponui Block and The Proprietors of Rangatira Point Block, the New Zealand Insurance Company Limited may submit a claim to the court for costs incurred in the administration of the trust created pursuant to the order first mentioned in the Schedule.

(2) At the hearing held by the court pursuant to section 25(5) the court shall proceed to make orders charging the assets of the Maori incorporations specified in subsection (1) with an amount for costs to be apportioned by the court between the incorporations, being not more than the amount of the claim and otherwise being an amount which, in the opinion of the court, is reasonable taking into consideration the work performed by the trustees.

(3) Any other person may make application to the court for an order under this section charging the assets of any 1 or more of the Maori incorporations constituted by this Part with the payment of costs incurred in respect of the land, and the court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any such application:

provided that no order shall be made under this section where the claim is in respect of work which was not in the opinion of the court for the benefit of all owners of the land involved.

(4) Any charge created by the court pursuant to this section shall be enforceable only by application to the court which shall have jurisdiction to order repayment of the money secured by the charge upon such terms and conditions as the court may think fit.

(1) Any application made to, any action or proceeding commenced in, and any decision given by, the High Court of New Zealand, the Court of Appeal of New Zealand, the Maori Appellate Court, or any tribunal (excepting the Maori Land Court), since 14 November 1955, in respect of the land described in Schedule 4 and the land known as Rangatira B616, is hereby declared to be of no effect.

(2) Where any action is at the date of commencement of this Act before any court or tribunal the Registrar or Secretary of the court or tribunal shall enter upon the face of the record an endorsement to give effect to the provisions of subsection (1).

The order of the court, made under section 182 of the Maori Affairs Act 1953 and dated 14 November 1955, which created the title for the land known as Rangatira B616 is hereby cancelled and the land therein shall hereafter be amalgamated with and be deemed to be part of the land known as Rangatira E and shall be held by the owners of Rangatira E as if it had been part of that block since the order of the court dated 6 April 1970 creating Rangatira E. The Registrar and the District Land Registrar shall do all things necessary to give effect to the provisions of this section.

In implementing the provisions of this Part, the court, the Registrar, the District Land Registrar, and the Valuer-General shall perform their duties and exercise their powers under this Part in such manner as shall be necessary to give effect to the true intent thereof.