LAND SALES ACT AMENDMENT
LAW SOCIETY’S VIEWS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, September 15. The New Zealand Law Society, in a statement to-day, said considerable attention had been <given the Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Amendment Act passed last week, and also to regulations which preceded it and which had been replaced by the ■r ending act When the regulations were gazett 1 on June 12 last representatives of the society waited on the Minister of Rehabilitation (the Hon. C. F. Skinner) pointing out their highly objectionable nature. After the draft bill had been introduced the society again saw the Minister because the bill embodied the same objectionable principles as the regulations, and also contained a number of matters of procedure which it was considered should be altered. Subintial amendments in procedure were agreed to by the Minister. The society also stated its objections when the bill was before the Statutes Revision Committee. That the objections were well founded was shown by the substantial amendments recommended by the Statutes Revision Committee, which had largely eliminated the vicious principle to which the society had obthroughout
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24982, 17 September 1946, Page 8
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