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Land Transfer (Hawke’s Bay) Amendment Act 1933 Public Act Date of assent 1933 No 39 22 December 1933 Contents Title Short Title Deﬁnitions Registrar to make a new register for district Registrar may apply to Hawke’s Bay Adjustment Court for declaratory order in respect of matters concerning the new register Modiﬁcation of section 44 of principal Act for purposes of special Act Registrar may decline to issue certiﬁcates or to register certain instruments until prescribed conditions satisﬁed New instruments executed under section 15 not dependent on any conﬁrmation or approval that may have been required in respect of destroyed instruments Page 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 4 An Act to amend the Land Transfer (Hawke’s Bay) Act 1931 1 Short Title This Act may be cited as the Land Transfer (Hawke’s Bay) Amendment Act 1933, and is part of the Land Transfer Act 1952 (“the principal Act”).
1 Land Transfer (Hawke’s Bay) Amendment Act 1933 1933 No 39 Section 1 was amended, as from 1 February 1999, by section 43(3) Land Transfer (Automation) Amendment Act 1998 (1998 No 123) by substituting the words “is part of the Land Transfer Act 1952 (the principal Act)” for the words “shall be read together with and deemed part of the Land Transfer (Hawke’s Bay) Act 1931”.
Deﬁnitions In this Act— The principal Act[Repealed] The principal Act: the reference to the Land Transfer Act 1952 was substituted, as from 1 January 1953, for a reference to the Land Transfer Act 1915 by section 245(1) Land Transfer Act 1952 (1952 No 52).

The principal Act: this deﬁnition was repealed, as from 1 February 1999, by sec­ tion 43(3) Land Transfer (Automation) Amendment Act 1998 (1998 No 123).
[Repealed] The expression the special Act means the Land Transfer (Hawke’s Bay) Act 1931 The expression adopted means used for the purpose of making a copy under section 4 of the special Act, and adoption has a corresponding meaning.

Registrar to make a new register for district The Registrar is hereby directed to make a new register for the district, and for that purpose is hereby given all such necessary authority as is not expressly conferred by the “special Act” or this Act.
This section is in substitution for section 3 of the special Act, and that section is hereby repealed accordingly.
Registrar may apply to Hawke’s Bay Adjustment Court for declaratory order in respect of matters concerning the new register The Registrar may at his discretion at any time apply to the Hawke’s Bay Adjustment Court for an order under section 12 of the Hawke’s Bay Earthquake Act 1931 to deﬁne the rights and liabilities of any person or persons in or in relation to any land or interest in land within the district, if the deﬁn­ ition of such right or liability by that Court would facilitate the making of the new register for the district.
s 2 2 3 (1) (2) 4 (1) 2 1933 No 39 Land Transfer (Hawke’s Bay) Amendment Act 1933 s 6 (2) Notice of every such application shall be given by the Regis­ trar by registered letter to every person known or believed by him to be entitled to any right or to be subject to any liability in respect of any land the subject­manner of the application.
Every such application, until disposed of by the Court, shall be effective as a caveat by the Registrar, and he shall make an entry in the register that such application has been made.
(3) 5 Modiﬁcation of section 44 of principal Act for purposes of special Act The Registrar shall have power, and from the passing of the special Act shall be deemed to have had power, to act under the provisions of section 44 of the principal Act without the necessity of complying with the proviso to subsection (2) thereof; and he may dispense with copying any outstand­ ing duplicate of any instrument.
Subsection (5) was amended, as from 1 February 1999, by section 43(3) Land Transfer (Automation) Amendment Act 1998 (1998 No 123) by substituting the expression “section 44” for the expression “section 40”.
6 Registrar may decline to issue certiﬁcates or to register certain instruments until prescribed conditions satisﬁed (1) Notwithstanding any enactment or rule of law to the contrary, the Registrar shall not be bound to issue any certiﬁcate of title upon a Warrant, or to embody in the provisional register as a folium thereof any certiﬁcate under the hand of the Commis­ sioner of Crown Lands to the effect that any purchase money has been paid, or to register any lease or licence issued under the Land Act 1948, or any other Act, or to register any vest­ ing of any estate or interest in any person whomsoever under a statute which does not expressly direct that the estate or in­ terest shall vest free from all encumbrances, restrictions, liens, and interests, unless and until he is informed under the hand of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, or until he is reasonably satisﬁed, either,— (a) That on the said date (as deﬁned by the special Act) no caveat was noted and no interest of any kind was regis­ tered in the old register or under the Deeds Registration Act 1908, as the case may be, affecting the land com­ 3 s 7 Land Transfer (Hawke’s Bay) Amendment Act 1933 1933 No 39 (b) prised in such Warrant, certiﬁcate under the hand of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, lease, or licence, or statute, as the case may be; or If a caveat had been noted or an instrument had existed on the said date, then that such interest or caveat has been reregistered or disclosed in writing to the Registrar in such a manner as to enable him to bring forward a memorial of it, or that it has been otherwise protected in accordance with the provisions of this Act or the special Act.
The Registrar on being satisﬁed of the existence of such a caveat or interest on the said date shall bring forward a me­ morial thereof on any certiﬁcate of title, provisional register, lease, or licence, which he shall issue or register.

In subsection (1) the reference to the Land Act 1948 was substituted, as from 1 April 1949, for references to the Land Act 1924 and the Land for Settlements Act 1925 by section 185(1) Land Act 1948 (1948 No 64).
New instruments executed under section 15 not dependent on any conﬁrmation or approval that may have been required in respect of destroyed instruments Where pursuant to section 15 of the special Act any person is required to execute an instrument in replacement of a de­ stroyed instrument, it shall not be necessary to obtain in respect of the new instrument any consent, approval, or conﬁrmation that may have been required in respect of the destroyed instru­ ment, but unless and until the contrary is proved, every such consent, approval, or conﬁrmation shall be deemed to have been duly given in respect of the destroyed instrument on or before its registration.
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