New Zealand Acts

CROWN GRANTS ACT 1908

- As at 12 November 2018
- Act 33 of 1908

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Short Title, etc
   2.      Interpretation
   3.      Director-General's certificate
   4.      Duties of Chief Surveyor
   5.      Corrections in grants
   6.      Surveyor's name to appear on plan
   7.      Negligence of surveyor
   8.      Governor-General's signature
   9.      Date of grant
   10.     Where grant lost or destroyed
   11.     Where grant to wrong person, land may be reconveyed or grant cancelled
   12.     Erroneous grant may be cancelled and new grant issued
   13.     Error in description of land
   14.     Evidence of error
   15.     Amended grant to be effectual
   16.     New grant may be issued in certain cases
   17.     Mode and effect of cancellation
   18.     Certain cancelled grants declared void ab initio
   19.     Mode of repeal
   20.     Deeds of transfer to be valid
   21.     Date when grantee becomes entitled to grant
   22.     Date to be certified
   23.     Entry of date in habendum of grant
   24.     Endorsement of date on grant previously executed
   25.     Entry or endorsement to be evidence of date
   26.     Mistake in date may be corrected by Minister
   27.     Authority of Chief Surveyor to correct wrong date
   28.     Effect of corrections
   29.     Registration and delivery of grants
   30.     Grant may be deposited in certain cases
   31.     Transfer or transmission of grantee's interest prior to execution of grant
   32.     Delivery of grant to successor in title of grantee
   33.     Entries by Registrar where grant cancelled
   34.     Entries may be amended where new grant issued
   35.     Seaward boundary of land granted
   36.     Reservation of land for roads
   36A.    Reservation of land for railways and other public works
   36B.    Removal of lapsed reservations from title
   37.     Roadway to include railway
   38.     Copies of grants as evidence
   39.     Grant fee and acreage fee
   40.     Fees to be prepaid
   41.     Custody fees
   42.     Certain grants exempt from custody fee
   43.     Fee for certified copy
   44.     Outstanding fees under prior Acts
   45.     Liability for and recovery of fees
   46.     Recovery of fees, etc, in case of Maori land grants
   47.     Trustee or mortgagee paying fees may charge the same
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2