Changes To Land Legislation

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30846, 3 September 1965, Page 3

Changes To Land Legislation

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, Sept. 2. Two members of the Land Settlement Board, at present holding office during the pleasure of the Government, will in future be appointed by the Minister of Lands for terms of up to five years, under a Land Amendment Bill, introduced in Parliament today.

The existing appointments will expire at the end of 1968. The legislation makes miscellaneous changes to Crown Land Law. One of the more important provisions restricts recourse to the Supreme Court by those aggrieved by any decision of the Land Settlement Board. There will, as at present, be no appeal to the Supreme Court, where there is a right of appeal to the Land Valuation Court.

Appeals to the Supreme Court will be available only to those whose own leases dr licences on Crown land have been affected by a decision

and then not against any allotment of land, any administrative determination or any decision declared to be final under existing law. Crown rights to minerals may, under the latest legislation, not be exercised within 100 feet of industrial or commercial buildings. Present protection applies only to dwellings. Those holding pastoral leases on land reclassified as farm land may obtain new, renewable leases for the balance of the term of surrendered leases but at rentals fixed on the renewable basis.