New Zealand Gazette – 1920 – No. 51

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✨ Legislative Orders

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 51

board that ship before a clearance has been granted, the master and
every person knowingly concerned in the doing thereof shall be
guilty of an offence against this Order.
24. Except where some other penalty is expressly provided by
this Order, every person who commits, or attempts to commit, or
conspires to commit, or incites or aids any other person to commit,
an offence against this Order shall be liable to imprisonment for six
months, or to a fine of fifty pounds.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

THE SAMOA LAND REGISTRATION ORDER, 1920.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this first day of
April, 1920.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of that Dominion, and in pursuance of the authority
to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the territory
of Western Samoa conferred upon him by the Western Samoa Order in
Council, 1920, made by His Majesty on the eleventh day of March,
ineteen hundred and twenty, under the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890,
doth hereby order as follows:—

This Order may be cited as the Samoa Land Registration Order,
This Order shall come into force in the territory of Western
Samoa on the same day as the Samoa Constitution Order, 1920.
This Order shall apply only to Crown land, European land, and
European interests in Native land.
In this Order,—
“ Instrument of title ” means and includes—
(a.) Any Crown grant ;
(b.) Any conveyance, mortgage, lease, license, grant,
assignment, surrender, or other instrument of
assurance ;
(c.) Any will, codicil, probate, or letters of adminis-
tration ;
(d.) Any order of the High Court ;
(e.) Any warrant, notice, or other instrument of execu-
tive authority ;
affecting the title to land in Samoa :
“ Crown grant ” includes a grant by the Crown of any estate
or interest in Crown land or in Native land :
“ European interest in Native land ” means any estate or
interest held in Native land otherwise than by virtue
of Native custom :
“ Legal title ” or “ legal estate or interest ” is opposed to
equitable title or equitable estate or interest :
“ Registrar ” means the Registrar of Land under this Order.
There shall be an officer of the Samoan Public Service, to be
known as the Registrar of Land, and to be appointed by the Minister of
External Affairs.
It shall be the duty of the Registrar, as soon as practicable
after the commencement of this Order, to prepare, in such manner as