Maori Purposes Act 1979

1: Short Title
This Act may be cited as the Maori Purposes Act 1979.
1: Amendments of 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Part 1 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993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Section 2 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993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: Notice of lessee's objection to valuation to be given to Valuer-General
Section 3 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
4: Interpretation for the purposes of Part 24
Section 4 repealed 1 October 1989 section 13(2) Maori Affairs Restructuring Act 1989
5: General land owned for benefit of Maoris may be declared subject to Part 24
Section 5 repealed 1 October 1989 section 13(2) Maori Affairs Restructuring Act 1989
6: Amendment of power of Maori Land Board to acquire shares in companies
Section 6 repealed 1 October 1989 section 13(2) Maori Affairs Restructuring Act 1989
7: Notice of lessee's objection to valuation to be given to Valuer-General
Section 7 repealed 1 October 1989 section 13(2) Maori Affairs Restructuring Act 1989
8: Money may be advanced for purposes of Part 24 from any money appropriated for the purposes of land not subject to Part 24
Section 8 repealed 1 October 1989 section 13(2) Maori Affairs Restructuring Act 1989
9: Relief from interest payment
Section 9 repealed 1 October 1989 section 13(2) Maori Affairs Restructuring Act 1989
10: Property other than land to be held by trustees for beneficial owners of land in proportion to their interests in land
Section 10 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
11: Advances to Maori occupiers of land that is not subject to Part 24
Section 11 repealed 1 October 1989 section 13(2) Maori Affairs Restructuring Act 1989
12: Provisional registration of mortgages of leasehold, etc, to Her Majesty or to a State Loan Department
Section 12 repealed 1 October 1989 section 13(2) Maori Affairs Restructuring Act 1989
13: Registrar's power to certify value of undivided interest increased
Section 13 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
14: Composition of Maori Land Advisory Committees altered
Section 14 repealed 1 July 1993 section 362(2) Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993
2: Miscellaneous provisions
15: Membership of Maori Purposes Fund Board altered
Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s)
16: Appointment of Maori Trustee and his deputy
Section 16 repealed 1 October 1989 section 10 Maori Affairs Restructuring Act 1989
17: Constitution of Maori incorporations under Maori Reserved Land Act 1955
Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s)
18: Proceeds of Wellington tenths sales may be used to acquire land or erect buildings
Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s)
19: Altering Short Titles of Maori Welfare Act 1962 and amendment
1: The Maori Welfare Act 1962 may hereafter be cited as the Maori Community Development Act 1962
2: Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s)
3: Every reference to the Maori Welfare Act 1962 in any enactment or in any regulation, rule, order, agreement, deed, instrument, application, licence, notice, or other document whatever, shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be read hereafter as a reference to the Maori Community Development Act 1962
20: Salaries and allowances of Judges and Commissioners
Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s)
21: Constitution of certain lands and water vested in Kaiapoi Reserve Board as Maori reservation
Whereas, pursuant to the provisions of section 66 intended purposes
1: The land and water described in subsection (9) is hereby set apart as a Maori reservation, (in this section referred to as the said reservation Kaiapoi Pā
2: As soon as practicable after the commencement of this Act, the Minister of Maori Affairs shall apply to the Maori Land Court for an order vesting the said reservation, for an estate in fee simple, in the trustees mentioned in subsection (3), who shall be known as Kaiapoi Pā
3: The trustees in whom the Maori Land Court shall vest the said reservation shall comprise 3 persons nominated by the people commonly known as the Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga, and 1 person nominated by Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu
4: Any new trustee or new trustees appointed by the court pursuant to section 439(7) of the Maori Affairs Act 1953 shall be a person or persons nominated by the people commonly known as the Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga, except that a new trustee to be appointed in the place of a person who was appointed on the nomination of Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu shall be a person nominated by Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu
5: The trustee appointed by the court on the nomination of the said Board shall be chairman, and the trustees may from time to time appoint a deputy chairman who may act for and shall have all the powers of the chairman during such time as the chairman, in the opinion of the other trustees, is incapacitated by illness, absence, or other sufficient cause, from performing the duties of chairman.
6: Upon the date on which the said reservation vests in trustees in accordance with subsections (2) to (5), the Board of Managers called the Kaiapoi Reserve Board shall cease to exist, and all the personal property and all the rights, powers, and privileges appertaining to the Kaiapoi Reserve Board shall vest in the trustees appointed in accordance with this section, who shall become subject to and liable for all claims and liabilities to which the Kaiapoi Reserve Board was subject immediately before that date.
7: If any of the said land is excluded from the said reservation, or if the said reservation is cancelled, the provisions of section 439(8) of the Maori Affairs Act 1953 shall not enure so as to vest the same in Her Majesty the Queen; but otherwise the persons entitled shall be as determined by an order of the court pursuant to the said section 439(8), except that the court at any time, upon application being made to it by the trustees, shall vest the beneficial interest in the said reservation in Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu
8: The provisions of section 66
9: This section relates to—
a: all that parcel of land, containing 6.4517 hectares, more or less, situated in the Rangiora Survey District, called Reserve 873A, and known as the old Maori Pa at Kaiapoi:
b: all that land and water, containing 9.7127 hectares, more or less, situated in Block VIII, Rangiora Survey District, being the balance or southern portion of Reserve 1873, and known as the Waikuku Lagoon. Section 21(1) amended 22 October 1998 section 271 Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998 Section 21(2) amended 22 October 1998 section 271 Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998 Section 21(3) amended 24 April 1996 section 34(1) Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu Act 1996 Section 21(4) amended 24 April 1996 section 34(1) Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu Act 1996 Section 21(7) amended 24 April 1996 section 34(1) Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu Act 1996