GOVERNMENT NATIVE LAND PURCHASES ACT AMENDMENT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5481, 21 October 1878, Page 2

GOVERNMENT NATIVE LAND PURCHASES ACT AMENDMENT.

A Bill intituled an Act to Amend the Government Native Land Purchases Act, 1577. Bo it enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : 1. The short title of this Act shall be the Government Native Laud Purchases Act Amendment Act, IS7S. 2. Every notification gazetted in maimer provided by the Government Native Land Purchases Act, 1877 (hereinafter called the “said Act "), of notice of the prior rights of the Crown in respect of the laud described in such notification shall, as against all persons other than tho aboriginal owners of such land, be equivalent to a notice that the native title over tho said land has been extinguished; and, from the day of the taking effect of any such notification, her Majesty, and every person on hor behalf, shall have and shall be deemed to have had from the day last named the same powers of removal and expulsion, and the same redress and remedies in respect of the unlawful occupation of, and intrusion or trespass upon any such lauds, by any person other than such aboriginal owners as aforesaid, as her Majesty or any person on her behatf lias under any existing law in respect of the unlawful occupation of, and intrusion or trespass upon lands of the Crown by any person. 3. From and after the passing of this Act, no notification of her Majesty’s relinquishment of any negotiations iu respect of any native land gazetted, as in tho said Act is provided, shall have any force or effect before tho expiration of thirty days after tho pub ! ication of the Gazette containing such lastmentioned notification.