Maori Purposes Act 1976

1: Short Title
This Act may be cited as the Maori Purposes Act 1976.
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Part 1 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993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 the Maori Affairs Act 1953
Section 2 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
3: Judges may issue practice notes
Section 3 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
4: Sittings of court
Section 4 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
5: Jurisdiction of court in respect of termination of life interests
Section 5 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
6: Swearing of affidavits outside New Zealand
Section 6 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
7: Court's jurisdiction in respect of probate, family protection, and insolvent estates abolished
Section 7 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
8: Time limits in respect of applications for confirmation
Section 8 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
9: Confirmation of resolutions for alienation of land
Section 9 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
10: Interpretation for purposes of Part 24
Section 10 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
11: Land that may be declared subject to Part 24
Section 11 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
12: Provisions as to review of rent during currency of lease and on renewal
Section 12 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
13: Advances for purchase of land
Section 13 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
14: Advances to Maori occupiers of land that is not subject to Part 24
Section 14 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
15: Court may incorporate owners as from specified date
Section 15 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
16: Application of revenues of incorporation
Section 16 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
17: Land acquired by incorporation
Section 17 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
18: Succession to undivided interests in Maori land on intestacy
Section 18 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
19: Removal of limitation on value of land included in an order vesting Maori land in successors without grant of administration
Section 19 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
20: Transfer of interest in Maori land from administrator to persons beneficially entitled
Section 20 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
21: Certain General land may again become Maori land
Section 21 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
2: Miscellaneous amendments to Maori legislation
22: Delegation of powers of Maori Trustee
Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s)
23: Grant to New Zealand Maori Council out of unclaimed moneys
Section 23 repealed 24 June 1996 Maori Trustee Amendment Act 1996
24: Reserved and Vested Land Purchase Fund abolished
1: The Fund established by section 41A
2: All interests in reserved land and vested land purchased by the Maori Trustee out of the Reserved and Vested Land Purchase Fund and held by him at the date of the commencement of this section shall, as from that date, be held by the Maori Trustee as assets of and for the purposes of the Conversion Fund established by Part 13 of the Maori Affairs Act 1953, and, for the purposes of that Part, shall be deemed to have been acquired by the Maori Trustee and paid for out of the said Conversion Fund.
3: A sum equal to the aggregate value of all interests in land to which subsection (2) applies, as shown in the books of the Maori Trustee at the date of the commencement of this section, together with all money standing to the credit of the Reserved and Vested Land Purchase Fund at that date, shall, on that date, be paid by the Maori Trustee to the credit of the General Purposes Fund established by section 23(1)﻿(c)
4), (5: Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s)
25: Special Maori Housing Fund abolished
1: The Fund established by section 18 section 15
2: All money standing to the credit of the Special Maori Housing Fund Account at the date of the commencement of this section shall, on that date, be transferred to the credit of the Works and Trading Account constituted by section 38 of the Public Revenues Act 1953 (as substituted by section 3 of the Public Revenues Amendment Act 1963).
3: All money hereafter received by the Maori Land Board on account of principal or interest owing to the Board in respect of any advance made by the Board before the commencement of this section out of the Special Maori Housing Fund Account shall be paid to the credit of a Crown Bank Account
4: Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s)
5: This section shall come into force on 31 March 1977. Section 25(3) amended 25 January 2005 section 83(7) Public Finance Act 1989
26: Pukepuke Tangiora Estate
For the purpose of giving effect (with some modifications) to the recommendation of the Maori Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives on Petition numbered 44 of 1974 of Allan Gerald Sievers and Brian Grossman concerning the estate of Pukepuke Tangiora, of Pakipaki, deceased: Be it enacted as follows:
1: In addition to the powers conferred upon them by section 17 section 16 section 19 section 37 section 19
a: expend any money held by the trustees on behalf of the Estate:
b: borrow any further amount of money that may be necessary for the purpose.
2: Without limiting subsection (1), the trustees may expend any such money for the purposes of site investigations, surveys, the preparation of plans, the supervision of construction, the purchase and installation of fittings and fixtures, and any other purposes ancillary to the erection and completion of the hall.
3: The trustees may give such security, whether by way of mortgage, pledge, or otherwise, in respect of any money borrowed by them under this section, and upon such terms and subject to such conditions, as they think fit.
4: The provisions of this section shall apply notwithstanding any of the provisions of the enactments referred to in subsection (1) and notwithstanding anything in the will of the said deceased.
27: Vesting of Arahura River Bed in the Proprietors of Mawhera
1: In this section the Incorporation section 15A Mawhera Incorporation Order 1976
2: The land to which this section applies is hereby vested in the Incorporation, subject to all leases, licences, charges, and other encumbrances affecting the same at the date of the commencement of this section.
3: The land shall be, in the hands of the Incorporation, Maori freehold land.
4: The provisions of Part 4 of the Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1967 shall apply to the land hereby vested in the Incorporation in the same manner and to the same extent as they apply to land vested in the Incorporation by its order of incorporation.
5: The Chief Surveyor for the Westland Land District shall forthwith, without charge, prepare a survey plan of the land and shall deposit the plan in the office of the District Land Registrar of that district. The District Land Registrar shall then, without charge, issue a certificate of title pursuant to the Land Transfer Act 1952
6: This section applies to the following land: First, all that parcel of land in the Westland Land District, containing 23 hectares, more or less, situated in Blocks XIII and XIV, Turiwhate Survey District, being Part Rural Section 5590, and being part of the land described in the Gazette Secondly, all that parcel of land in the Westland Land District, containing 7 hectares, more or less, situated in Block XIV, Turiwhate Survey District, being Part Rural Section 5590 (formerly Part Rural Section 5140), and being part of the land described in the Gazette Thirdly, all that parcel of land in the Westland Land District, containing 252.9700 hectares, more or less, situated in Blocks III, IV, VII, VIII, and XII, Kaniere Survey District, Blocks IX, XIII, XIV, and XV, Turiwhate Survey District, and Blocks II, III, and VI, Brownings Pass Survey District, being Rural Sections 5590, 5591, and 5592 (SO Plan 9742).