MAR. 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 795

ORDER.

1. This Order may be cited as the Samoa Land and Titles Repeal and Savings Order, 1935.

2. The Samoa Native Land and Titles Commission Order, 1924, and the Samoa Native Titles Protection Order, 1928, shall be deemed to be revoked as on the 1st day of April, 1935, being the date on which the Native Land and Titles Protection Ordinance, 1934, comes into operation.

3. (1) All proceedings pending before the Native Land and Titles Commission under the Samoa Native Land and Titles Commission Order, 1924, at the coming into operation of the Native Land and Titles Protection Ordinance, 1934, may be continued and completed under the corresponding provisions of that Ordinance.

(2) All records, instruments, warrants, judgments, orders, and generally all acts of authority originating under the Samoa Native Land and Titles Commission Order, 1924, and subsisting and in force on the coming into operation of the Native Land and Titles Protection Ordinance, 1934, shall endure for the purpose of that Ordinance as fully and effectively as if they had originated under the corresponding provisions thereof and accordingly shall where necessary be deemed to have so originated.

4. Criminal proceedings in respect of offences committed against the provisions of the Samoa Native Titles Protection Order, 1928, before the commencement of the Native Land and Titles Protection Ordinance, 1934, may be commenced or continued as the case may be under the corresponding provisions of that Ordinance.

5. (1) All records, instruments, warrants, judgments, orders, and generally all acts of authority originating under the Samoa Native Land and Titles Commission Order, 1920, and subsisting and in force on the coming into operation of the Samoa Native Land and Titles Commission Order, 1924, shall be deemed to have endured for the purposes of that Order as fully and effectively as if they had originated thereunder and accordingly shall where necessary be deemed to have so originated.

(2) All records, instruments, warrants, judgments, orders, and generally all acts of authority originating under an Ordinance of the Imperial German Governor constituting a Land and Titles Commission (which said Ordinance is dated the 25th day of February, 1903, and was published in Samoanisches Gouvernements-Blatt Band III No. 19 on the 28th day of February, 1903), and subsisting and in force on the coming into operation of the Samoa Native Land and Titles Commission Order, 1920, shall be deemed to have endured for the purposes of that Order as fully and effectively as if they had originated thereunder and accordingly shall where necessary be deemed to have so originated.

6. Every record and register of proceedings originating under the aforesaid Ordinance of the Imperial German Governor or under the Samoa Native Land and Titles Commission Order, 1920, or under the Samoa Native Land and Titles Commission Order, 1924, shall on and after the 1st day of April, 1935, be confided to the custody of the Registrar of the Native Land and Titles Commission constituted under the Native Land and Titles Protection Ordinance, 1934, and shall be receivable as evidence of the matters therein recorded or registered in the same way as records and registers of the Native Land and Titles Commission so constituted, and the contents of any such record or register may be proved by the production of a certified copy thereof or extract therefrom signed by the said Registrar.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.