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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 102

tory of Western Samoa conferred upon him by the Western Samoa
Order in Council, 1920, made by His Majesty on the eleventh day of
March, nineteen hundred and twenty, under the Foreign Jurisdiction
Act, 1890, and further in pursuance of the Treaties of Peace Act, 1919,
and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf,
doth hereby order as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Samoa Land Registration
   Amendment Order, 1921, and shall be read with and form part of the
   Samoa Land Registration Order, 1920.

2. This Order shall come into force on the first day of January,
   nineteen hundred and twenty-two, save as hereinafter specially pro-
   vided.

3. (a.) It shall be lawful from time to time to provide by Ordinance
   for the practice and procedure of land registration in Western Samoa,
   provided that no such Ordinance shall be repugnant to the Samoa
   Land Registration Order, 1920, or any amendment thereof.

(b.) If any such Ordinance is in part repugnant to the Samoa Land
Registration Order, 1920, or any amendment thereof, such Ordinance
shall nevertheless be valid as to the residue thereof, if and so far as
the residue is in substance and effect severable from the part which
is so repugnant or ultra vires.

4. Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained or implied, it
   shall be lawful to enact by Ordinance that an Act of the General
   Assembly of New Zealand intituled the Land Transfer Act, 1915, or
   any other Act passed in substitution therefor, shall be in force in the
   Territory of Western Samoa with such modifications as may be deemed
   requisite for such territory.

5. Subclause (d) of clause four of the Samoa Land Registration
   Order, 1920, defining instrument of title, is hereby amended by adding
   thereto the following words, “or of any other Court of competent
   jurisdiction.”

6. (a.) Clause fourteen of the Samoa Land Registration Order,
   1920, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following: “Provided
   always that nothing herein expressed or implied shall be deemed to
   prevent the registration of any instrument which, but for the fact that
   the legal estate or interest is vested in a mortgagee, would when duly
   registered affect the legal estate or interest in any land authorized to
   be placed on the Land Register.”

(b.) This clause shall be deemed to have been in force since the
coming into operation of the Samoa Land Registration Order, 1920.

7. (a.) Clause eighteen of the Samoa Land Registration Order,
   1920, is hereby amended by adding after the words “legal title to
   land” the following words, “or the interest of any person registered
   on the Land Register.”

(b.) This clause shall be deemed to have been in force since the
coming into operation of the Samoa Land Registration Order, 1920.

8. (a.) Clause nineteen of the Samoa Land Registration Order,
   1920, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following: “Provided
   that nothing in this clause shall be deemed to apply to any order of
   Court, Crown grant, or any Warrant, notice, or other instrument of
   executive authority.”

(b.) This clause shall be deemed to have been in force since the
coming into operation of the Samoa Land Registration Order, 1920.

9. Any person—

(a.) Claiming to be entitled to or to be beneficially interested in
any land, estate, or interest authorized to be included in the
Land Register by virtue of any unregistered agreement or
other instrument or transmission or of any trust, expressed
or implied, or otherwise howsoever; or

(b.) Transferring or conveying any estate or interest in land autho-
rized to be included on the Land Register to any other
person to be held in trust;