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Title.

Preamble,

Short title.

Time and

tion of Act.

Title.

18

(4.) Inducements to Private Planting.

NEW ZEALAND.--Tricesimo Quinto Victoria Regina. No. XXXII.

Preamble.

1. Short title.

2. Time and place of operation of Act

ANALYSIS.

3. Grant of land for planting. Coudi-

tions required.

4. Regulations to be made by Governor. 5. No grant for less than 20 acres.

6. Regulations as to form and frontage.

7. Not more than one grant to issue for

uny plantation.

AN ACT to encourage the planting of Forest Trees.

[14th November 1871.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to encourage the planting of forest trees in the Colony. Be it therefore 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 Forest Trees Planting Encouragement Act, 1871."

2. The Governor may from time to time, upon the application of the Superintendent place of opera- and Provincial Council of any province, by proclamation in the " New Zealand Gazette," declare this Act to be in operation in any province or in any district being part of a province to be defined in such proclamation, and on a day to be fixed in such proclama- tion this Act shall come into operation in such province or district.

Grant of land for planting.

Conditions required.

Regulations to be made by Governor,

No grant for less than 20

acres.

Regulations as

to form and frontage.

Not more than

3. If any person shall plant any land not being less than one acre in extent with forest trees he shall be entitled to receive in respect of every acre of land so planted a

may be free grant of two acres of rural land of the waste lands of the Crown which

open for sale within the province in which the trees are planted. Provided that no Crown grant shall be issued until it be satisfactorily shown that the land has been devoted to purposes of planting only for at least two years, that the trees are in a vigorous and healthy state, and that the land is securely fenced against both sheep and cattle.

4. The Governor in Council may from time to time make regulations for defining the number and description of trees to be planted on each acre, and the other terms and conditions to be fulfilled by persons claiming a free grant of land under the provisions of this Act, and upon the certificate of the Superintendent of the Province, or of an officer appointed by him for that purpose, that the terms and conditions herein expressed as well as those prescribed in such regulations have been complied with, the person to whom such certificate is given shall be entitled, on the production of such certificate to the Waste Lands Board or Commissioner of Crown Lands for such Province, to receive a free grant of the amount of land to which such certificate shall prove him to be entitled.

5. No grant shall be issued under the provision of this Act for less than twenty nor more than two hundred and fifty acres, but if any person shall under the said provisions be entitled to a less extent than twenty acres of land he may pay the balance in cash upon the same terms as other applicants for rural lands under the waste lands regula- tions of the province.

6. Every parcel of land granted under the provisions of this Act shall be subject to the same conditions as to form and frontage as any rural land sold under the ordinary waste lands regulations in force within the province.

7. No land once planted shall entitle the planter to more than one grant in respect of

one grant to

the same.

issue for any

plantation.

Title.

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NEW ZEALAND.Tricesimo Sexto Victoria Reginæ. No. XLIX.

Preamble.

1. Short title.

2. Section 3 of Act of 1871 amended.

ANALYSIS.

3. Date of commencement of provisions

of Act.

4. In lieu of land, land orders shall be

received by persons planting trees.

5. Land order to be exercised within two

years.

6. Regulations may apply either to Colony or Province. Governor in Council may alter regulations.

7. Holder of land order over 1007. may

exercise the same either wholly or

in part, as regards parcels of land or time.

8. Provisions repugnant to this Act re-

pealed. Schedule.

AN ACT to amend "The Forest Trees planting Encouragement Act, 1871."

[21st October 1872.]

Title.

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend "The Forest Trees Planting Encouragement Act, Preamble. 1871" (herein-after referred to as the said Act):

Be it therefore 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 Forest Trees Planting Encouragement Short title. Act Amendment Act, 1872."

amended.

2. "The Forest Trees Planting Encouragement Act, 1871," shall be construed and Section 3 of read as if the additional proviso following had been originally introduced at the end of Act of 1871 the third section of the said Act (that is to say) :-Provided also that if root crops are cultivated amongst the forest trees planted on any land, such land shall not, by reason only of such crops being cultivated, be deemed to be not devoted only to purposes of planting.

provisions of

3. Land may be granted under the provisions of this Act, and of "The Forest Trees Date of com- Planting Encouragement Act, 1871," in respect of any planting effected in the Province of mencement of Canterbury in conformity with the terms and conditions of the said Act subsequently to Act. the twenty-fifth of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

lani orters

ing trees.

4. In lieu of a free grant of two acres of land, any person who, in accordance with In lieu of land, the provisions of the said Act as amended by this Act, plants any land not less than an hall be acre in extent with forest trees shall be entitled to receive in respect of every acre so received by planted a land order in the form in the Schedule hereto, which shall authorise such persons plant- person to purchase, to such an amount not exceeding four pounds as shall be fixed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province within which the trees shall have been planted, for every acre so planted, any of the rural land of the waste lands of the Crown in the Province within which the trees shall have been planted, open for sale or selection, without payment in cash at auction, or by selection without auction or other- wise, but subject in every other respect to the laws and regulations for the time being in force regulating the sale and disposal of the waste lands of the Crown in such Province; and wherever in the said Act reference is made to a free grant of land, the said Act shall be read and construed as if such land order as aforesaid had been mentioned or referred to.

The certificate of the Superintendent of the Province or officer appointed by him, referred to in the said Act, shall not certify the quantity of land for which a free grant is to be made, but shall certify the sum of money for which the land order is to be given; and the Commissioner of Crown Lands for such Province shall, upon production of such certificate, give to the person certified to be entitled such land order as aforesaid.

5. Every such land order shall be exercised within two years from the date thereof, Land order to and if not exercised within such period shall be absolutely null and void, and no renewal be exercised thereof shall be granted.

within two

years.

either to

6. The regulations which are authorised to be made under the fourth section of the Regulations said Act may be made to apply generally throughout the Colony, or may be limited to may apply apply to any one or more of the Provinces; and different regulations may from time to Colony or time be made for the several Provinces, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent Province. and Provincial Council of the Province within which such regulations are intended to have force.

The regulations aforesaid may be altered or revoked by the Governor in Council; (overnor in but such alteration or revocation shall only have a prospective operation, and shall Council may not affect rights of any person who shall before the publication of such alteration or tious.

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