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Reprint as at 12 November 2018 Land Transfer (Land Information and Offshore Persons Information) Exemption Regulations 2015 (LI 2015/222) Jerry Mateparae, Governor-General Order in Council At Wellington this 28th day of September 2015 Present: The Hon Bill English presiding in Council Pursuant to section 236 of the Land Transfer Act 1952, His Excellency the Governor- General makes the following regulations, acting— on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council; and on the recommendation of the Minister for Land Information after being satis- fied that the requirements of section 236(4) have been met.
Contents Title Commencement Interpretation Exempt transfers Non-notifiable transfers Page 2 2 2 2 2 (a) (b) Note Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this official reprint.

Note 4 at the end of this reprint provides a list of the amendments incorporated.

These regulations are administered by Land Information New Zealand.
1 Land Transfer (Land Information and Offshore Persons Information) Exemption Regulations 2015 Reprinted as at 12 November 2018 Regulations Title These regulations are the Land Transfer (Land Information and Offshore Per- sons Information) Exemption Regulations 2015.

Commencement These regulations come into force on 1 October 2015.

Interpretation r 1 1 2 3 In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, Act means the Land Transfer Act 2017.
Regulation 3: amended, on 12 November 2018, by regulation 4 of the Land Transfer (Land Informa- tion and Offshore Persons Information) Exemption Amendment Regulations 2018 (LI 2018/195).
4 Exempt transfers (1) A transfer of a specified estate in land is exempt from the requirements of sec- tion 78 of the Act if— (a) (b) the land is Maori land; or the transfer is a transfer of property by the Crown under a Treaty settle- ment Act that expressly authorises the Crown to— (i) (ii) transfer the fee simple estate in the property; and sign a transfer instrument or other document, or do anything else, as necessary to effect the transfer.
(2) In this regulation, unless the context otherwise requires,— Crown has the meaning given in section 2(1) of the Public Finance Act 1989 Maori land has the meaning given in section 4 of Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993 Treaty settlement Act means an Act to give effect to a deed between the Crown and any group of Māori claimants or a representative of any group of Māori claimants in relation to the historical Treaty of Waitangi claims of that group.
Regulation 4(1): amended, on 12 November 2018, by regulation 5 of the Land Transfer (Land Infor- mation and Offshore Persons Information) Exemption Amendment Regulations 2018 (LI 2018/195).
Non-notifiable transfers The following transfers of a specified estate in land are non-notifiable transfers in relation to a transferor: (a) a transfer by a public authority or a local authority: 5 (1) 2 Reprinted as at 12 November 2018 Land Transfer (Land Information and Offshore Persons Information) Exemption Regulations 2015 r 5 (b) (c) (d) (e) a transfer on a distribution by an executor, administrator, or trustee of a deceased person’s estate to a beneficiary who is beneficially entitled to receive the property under the will or the rules governing intestacy: a transfer of mortgaged land by the mortgagee: a transfer by rating sale under the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002: a transfer giving effect to an order of a court.
(2) A transfer of a specified estate in land to a public authority or a local authority is a non-notifiable transfer in relation to the transferee.
(3) In this regulation,— local authority has the meaning given to it in section YA 1 of the Income Tax Act 2007 public authority— (a) means every department or instrument of the Executive Government of New Zealand; and (b) (c) (d) includes the Māori Trustee; and includes the Reserve Bank; but does not include— (i) Crown Research Institutes (as defined in section 2 of the Crown Research Institutes Act 1992): (ii) mixed-ownership enterprises (as defined in section YA 1 of the Income Tax Act 2007): (iii) Public Trust: (iv) State enterprises (as defined in section YA 1 of the Income Tax Act 2007).
Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.

Date of notification in Gazette: 30 September 2015.

Michael Webster, Clerk of the Executive Council.


3 Notes Land Transfer (Land Information and Offshore Persons Information) Exemption Regulations 2015 Reprinted as at 12 November 2018 Reprints notes 1 General This is a reprint of the Land Transfer (Land Information and Offshore Persons Information) Exemption Regulations 2015 that incorporates all the amend- ments to those regulations as at the date of the last amendment to them.
2 Legal status Reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by any amendments to that enactment.

Section 18 of the Legislation Act 2012 provides that this reprint, published in electronic form, has the status of an official version under section 17 of that Act.

A printed version of the reprint produced directly from this official elec- tronic version also has official status.
3 Editorial and format changes Editorial and format changes to reprints are made using the powers under sec- tions 24 to 26 of the Legislation Act 2012.

See also http://www.pco.parlia- ment.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/.

4 Amendments incorporated in this reprint Land Transfer (Land Information and Offshore Persons Information) Exemption Amendment Regu- lations 2018 (LI 2018/195) Wellington, New Zealand: Published under the authority of the New Zealand Government—2018 4