Maori Purposes Act 1966

1: Short Title
This Act may be cited as the Maori Purposes Act 1966.
1: Amendments to Maori Affairs Act 1953
Part 1 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
2: This Part to form part of Maori Affairs Act 1953
Section 2 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
3: Appointment of temporary Judges
Section 3 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
4: Salaries of judges
Section 4 repealed 24 November 1967 section 3(2) Maori Purposes Act 1967
5: Advances to owners of freehold
Section 5 repealed 1 October 1989 section 13(2) Maori Affairs Restructuring Act 1989
6: Court may vest land in trustee
Section 6 repealed 22 November 1967 Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1967
2: Amalgamation of titles to Whanganui vested lands
7: This Part to be read with Maori Vested Lands Administration Act 1954
This Part shall be read together with and deemed part of the Maori Vested Lands Administration Act 1954 principal Act
8: Trusts declared for certain areas
1: The lands described in Part 1
2: Any reservation made by the Aotea District Maori Land Council in respect of the land described in Part 2 Gazette
3: The lands described in Part 3
9: Title amalgamation order
1: On application made to it by the Maori Trustee, the court shall make an order (in this section referred to as the amalgamation order Parts 1 2 3 4
2: The description to be assigned in the amalgamation order to the lands affected by it shall be the Atihau-Whanganui Vested Land (hereinafter in this Part referred to as the Whanganui land
3: The court shall set forth in the amalgamation order the relative interests of the owners in the amalgamated title, their relative interests being determined by reference to the relative values of the interests to which the owners were entitled in the several separate parcels affected by the amalgamation order. For the purpose of determining the relative values of the interests aforesaid, the court shall adopt the unimproved values of the several parcels as appearing, on 1 October 1962, in the district valuation rolls in force under the Valuation of Land Act 1951, with such modifications as the Valuer-General may determine as being necessary to give the unimproved values of the several separate parcels a comparable value as on the date aforesaid. No appeal shall lie against any determination of the Valuer-General under this subsection.
4: The amalgamation order shall not operate in any way to affect the legal estate in the lands to which it relates; and those lands shall, subject to the provisions of this Part, continue to be vested land for the purposes of the principal Act.
10: Amalgamation of compensation funds
1: The several amounts invested by the Maori Trustee in his Common Fund pursuant to section 55
2: The money so held in the Maori Trustee's Common Fund may, in the Maori Trustee's discretion, be applied—
a: for any purpose for which it could be applied under the principal Act; or
b: in reduction or satisfaction of any mortgage, charge, or encumbrance to which the freehold of the Whanganui land, or any part thereof, is subject, whether to the Maori Trustee or otherwise; or
c: in paying to the equitable owners of any of the several parcels of land affected by the amalgamation order which at the time of the making of the order were leased otherwise than on the unimproved value of the land, the value of the owners' interest in the improvements.
11: Incidence of land tax
Notwithstanding anything in the Land and Income Tax Act 1954, the Maori Trustee shall not be obliged to furnish any return for the purposes of the assessment of land tax on the Whanganui land, but the Maori Trustee shall pay to the Commissioner of Inland Revenue in each year after 31 March 1967, in satisfaction of the liability for land tax in respect of the land, a sum equal to the total land tax levied and paid in respect of all the lands included in the amalgamation order for the year ended on 31 March 1967, subject to an increase or decrease proportionate to the increase or decrease in the rates of land tax fixed from time to time in the annual taxing Act within the meaning of the Land and Income Tax Act 1954.
3: Miscellaneous amendments to Maori legislation
12: Cheques drawn on Maori Trustee's Account
Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s)
13: Housing assistance for Tokelau immigrants
Section 13 repealed 24 October 1969 section 9(2) Maori Purposes Act 1969
14: Disposition of equitable interests in Palmerston North Maori Reserve
Section 14 repealed 1 April 1968 Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1967
15: Land reserved for landless Maoris
Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s)
16: Ngaitahu Trust Board beneficiaries
Section 16 repealed 24 April 1996 section 34(1) Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu Act 1996
17: Unclaimed money held by East Coast Commissioner
1: As soon as practicable after the commencement of this Act, the East Coast Commissioner appointed under Part 4 Commissioner section 19
2: The Commissioner shall supply to the Maori Trustee a list containing the names of the several beneficiaries whose money is so paid to the Maori Education Foundation, showing the amount due to each such beneficiary, and the source or principal source from which the money for each beneficiary was derived. The Maori Trustee shall publish the list in the same manner as if were a list of unclaimed money compiled in accordance with subsection (5) of section 30
3: Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s)