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recommendation of the Land Board, declare that any land comprised in a kauri-gum reserve shall, from a date to be specified in the Order, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and on and after the date so specified the land to which the Order relates shall become subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908:

And whereas the Land Board of the Auckland Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that the Awitu Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 Kauri-gum Reserves described in the Schedule hereto be excepted from the operations of the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and it is expedient to give effect to such recommendation:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section forty-six of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby order and declare that the Awitu Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 Kauri-gum Reserves described in the Schedule hereto shall, from the twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908.

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SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—COUNTY OF FRANKLIN.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

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Regulations under the Land Transfer Act, 1908.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of January, 1914.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the Land Transfer Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, make regulations prescribing and altering the fees which may be taken by Registrars and regulating the practice and conduct of business under the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him as aforesaid, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby prescribe the fees specified in the Schedule hereto as the fees to be taken by Registrars and make the Regulations hereinafter set forth for the purposes of the said Act.

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REGULATIONS.

1. In these regulations “the Act” means the Land Transfer Act, 1908, including any amendments thereof; and all other terms have the same signification as when used in the Act, unless a contrary intention appears.

2. These regulations shall be deemed to supersede any regulations heretofore in force under the said Act or any repealed Act (which are hereby revoked as from the date of these regulations coming into force), excepting those of the 14th March, 1908, and the 17th January, 1910, relating to Crown leases, and those prescribing the fees to be charged by licensed land brokers, and those made by the Surveyors' Board for the guidance of surveyors.

3. These regulations shall come into force on the 1st March, 1914.

OFFICE AND OFFICE HOURS.

4. In and for each district there shall be an office to be known as “the Land Registry Office,” which shall be open for public business daily from 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m., except on Saturdays, when the hours shall be from 9.30 a.m. till 12 noon, and on Sundays and public holidays.

BOOKS TO BE KEPT.

5. In addition to the Register and Provisional Register Books provided for by sections 33 and 46 of the Act, there shall be kept in and for each district the following books:—

(1.) An application-book, in which shall be entered particulars relating to all applications to bring land under the operation of the Act.

(2.) A journal, in which shall be entered particulars of all instruments received for registration, referring to the same by number in the order in which the same shall be received for registration.

(3.) A nominal index, in which shall be entered the names of all persons having any registered interest in land, together with the nature of the instrument creating the interest, the property affected, and the folium of the Register-book.

(4.) A sectional index, in which shall be entered particulars of all land alienated from the Crown and subject to the Act, with the corresponding folium of the Register-book.

PRINTED FORMS.

6. The forms of instruments prescribed by the Act may be used with such modifications as the case may require and the Registrar approve.

7. Solicitors, licensed land brokers, and others may have their own forms printed. In such case two proof copies shall be forwarded to the Registrar for approval, one to be returned when approved and the other to be filed for reference.

8. All forms must be printed on hand-made paper of the best quality and of demy size. Inset sheets used with any form must be of the same size and of a good quality of paper.

9. An approval fee shall be payable in respect of every instrument presented for registration on a form or forms not previously approved.

FORM OF INSTRUMENTS.

10. All applications and instruments for registration must be on forms supplied by the Stamp Office or approved by a Registrar. They must be legibly written or typed. If typed the original, and not a carbon copy, shall be retained in the Registry Office.

11. In the case of instruments registered in duplicate or triplicate, each part must be an exact replica of the other or others both as to the body of the instrument and as to any declarations, consents, or other matters endorsed thereon or attached thereto.

12. No instrument shall be received for registration which purports to deal with matters or to create interests not capable of registration, or to affect land or other property not subject to the provisions of the Act, or which for any other reason is incapable of complete registration; but this shall not prevent the registration of any instrument affecting land in two or more registration districts, nor shall it prevent the registration of any instrument as to part only of the land affected: Provided that a request for such partial registration be endorsed thereon and signed by the person presenting the same for registration. Such instrument may at the like request be re-registered as to the remainder or any other part of the land affected thereby.

CORRECTION OF ERRORS.

13. The Registrar may at his discretion refuse to register any instrument containing an erasure or alteration. Mistakes should be corrected by drawing the pen through the words or figures written in error and writing the correct words or figures over them. Any such correction and any interlineation or addition should be initialled by the party executing the instrument and by the attesting witness.

14. No alteration whatever shall be allowed to be made in any application or instrument during retention thereof in the office. Except as after mentioned, applications or instruments requiring amendments must be withdrawn.

15. Errors or defects in description of parcels in any application to bring land under the Act may be amended by permission of the Registrar at any time before such application is gazetted by substitution of amended description and diagram: Provided that such amendment shall not alter the subject-matter of the application so as to include land not originally the subject thereof.

16. The like errors or defects in instruments dealing with land under the Act may, before registration, be corrected in the like manner: Provided that such corrections shall be in matter of description of parcels only, and shall not in any way materially alter the subject-matter of the instrument.