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AN ACT for the management of Lands set apart for the benefit of the Aboriginal
Inhabitants of New Zealand.
(Assented to 6th August, 1856.)
Title.
Preamble.
WHEREAS in various parts of New Zealand lands have been
and may hereafter be reserved and set apart for the benefit
of the aboriginal inhabitants thereof, and it is expedient that the
same should be placed under an effective system of management;
And whereas, the title of the said aboriginal inhabitants has been
extinguished over some portions of such lands, and over other por-
tions thereof such title has not been extinguished.
Enactment.
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand as
follows:
Governor may appoint Commissioners.
- It shall be lawful for the Governor of the said Colony at
any time and from time to time by letters patent under the public
seal of the Colony, to appoint persons to be Commissioners for car-
rying this Act into effect, who shall be styled "Commissioners of
Native Reserves," and such Commissioners-from time to time to re-
move.
Distinct Commissions may be issued.
2. Several and distinct Commissions may be issued to several
and distinct sets of Commissioners with several and distinct limits
of jurisdictions.
Number of Commissioners.
3. In every Commission there shall not be less than three Com-
missioners.
Governor to frame rules of procedure.
4. The Governor may from time to time frame and establish
rules for the conduct of business under such Commissions and may
from time to time alter the same, which rules and all alterations
thereof shall be published in the Government Gazette of the said
Colony and when published shall have the force of law.
Commissioners to appoint clerks and other officers.
5. The Commissioners may appoint clerks and other officers
for the necessary conduct of business under such Commissions.
Commissioners to have full powers of management.
6. When any lands within the jurisdiction of any Commis-
sioners shall have been or shall be reserved or set apart for the
benefit of the said aboriginal inhabitants over which lands the na-
tive title shall have been extinguished, such Commissioners shall
have and exercise over such lands full power of management
and disposition subject to the provisions of this Act; and subject
to such provisions, may exchange absolutely sell, lease, or other-
wise dispose of such lands in such manner as they in their
discretion shall think fit, with a view to the benefit of the abori-
ginal inhabitants for whom the same may have been set apart.
And no purchaser, lessee, or other person paying money to such
Commissioners shall be afterwards answerable for such money or
be bound to see to the application thereof.
Governor's assent to be necessary.
7. No sale, exchange, lease, or other disposition of such lands
except a lease not exceeding twenty-one years in possession shall
be valid, without the assent in writing of the Governor first ob-
tained for every such purpose, and every conveyance, lease, and
other disposition made by the said Commissioners under the au-
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NZ Gazette 1856, No 30
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🏛️ Publication of the Act for the management of Lands set apart for Aboriginal Inhabitants.
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration6 August 1856
Legislation, Native Reserves, Land management, Governor, Commissioners, Aboriginal Inhabitants