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other moneys payable under the lease, or in the faithful observance and performance of any other of the provisions of these regulations, or of the lease, then and in any such case the Land Board may, without any previous or other notice or demand, forfeit the lease; and in such case all his interest therein shall absolutely cease and determine, subject, nevertheless, to the provisions of the next-following clause respecting valuation of improvements; but such forfeiture shall not affect any right or remedy on the part of Her Majesty to recover from the lessee any money due to Her Majesty, or release the lessee from any penalty or liability in respect to anything done or omitted to be done by him.

31. In the event of the forfeiture or surrender of the lease, the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” respecting valuation of improvements and the payment or other disposal thereof shall, so far as the same are applicable, apply to the improvements made by the lessee.

32. The lease shall be in the form or to the effect set forth in the Second Schedule hereto, and may contain such additional provisions, not inconsistent with these regulations, as, with the approval of the Minister, the Land Board thinks fit.

33. Subject to these regulations, the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and the regulations thereunder with respect to applications and the grant of leases in perpetuity, the stipulations for and conditions subject to which such leases may be granted, the rights and powers of Her Majesty and of every person or authority in her behalf, the rights, powers, and functions of the Land Board and the Commissioner in relation to the land and premises comprised in such leases, and the estate, interest, rights, duties, and liabilities of the lessees shall, so far as the same are applicable, apply to leases in perpetuity granted under these regulations.

34. For the purposes of the disposal of the Paparangi Settlement, the general regulations made on the 1st day of February, 1897, and gazetted on the 4th idem, are hereby superseded by these regulations.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

FORM OF APPLICATION.

APPLICATION for Rural Land for Lease in Perpetuity under “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894,” and its Amendments.

To the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Land District of Wellington.

I hereby apply for a lease in perpetuity of one of the following sections:—

And I deposit herewith the sum of £
, being the half-year’s rent, and other payments prescribed in respect of the section applied for.*

In proof of my fitness and qualifications to hold the land applied for, I hereby make the following replies to the under-mentioned questions:—

• If more than one section is applied for the deposit should be for the section requiring the largest deposit, and the words “which is greatest in value” should be added.

Declaration.

I,
, of
,
do solemnly and sincerely declare,—

1. That I am of the age of twenty-one years and upwards.

2. That I am the person who, subject to the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894,” “The Land for Settlements Act Amendment Act, 1896,” and the regulations made thereunder, am applying for a lease in perpetuity of one of the sections described in the foregoing application.

3. That I am acquiring such lease solely for my own use and benefit, and not directly or indirectly for the use or benefit of any other person or persons whomsoever.

4. That I am not, directly or indirectly, either by myself or jointly with any other person or persons, the tenant or occupier of any land whatsoever under “The Land Act, 1892,” or “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894,” or their respective amendments, nor the owner in fee-simple, nor the tenant or occupier under a lease for a term whereof not less than two years are unexpired, of any other land in the colony which, with the largest section included in the foregoing application, would exceed in area 1,000 acres.

5. That the total value of all the freehold and leasehold property owned by me does not (after deducting the encumbrances thereon) exceed three times the capital value of any section comprised in the foregoing application.

6. That my answers to the foregoing questions (Nos. 1 to 10) are true and correct in every particular.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

[Signature in full.]

Declared at
, this
day of
, one thousand
, before me—

[Signature],
A Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of New Zealand [or as the case may be].

Received on
, at
.

Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

(New Zealand.)

Lease in Perpetuity of Land in the Paparangi Settlement under “The Land Act, 1892,” and “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894,” and the Amendments thereof.

THIS DEED, made the
day of
, one thousand
, between Her Majesty the Queen (who, with her heirs and successors, is hereinafter referred to as “the lessor”), of the one part, and [Full name] of [Residence], in the Colony of New Zealand [Occupation] (who, with executors, administrators, and permitted assigns, is hereinafter referred to as “the lessee”), of the other part.

Whereas the section of land described in the First Schedule hereto is rural land which has been acquired by the lessor under “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894:” And whereas, pursuant to the provisions of that Act and the regulations in that behalf, the lessee duly applied for a lease in perpetuity of the said section, and on the
day of
, one thousand
, his application was duly declared to be successful by the Land Board of the Wellington Land District (hereinafter called the “Land Board”):

Now this deed witnesseth that in consideration of the rent hereinafter reserved, and of the covenants, conditions, and agreements herein contained and implied, and on the part of