LAND SALES ACT
LAW SOCIETY EXPLAINS ATTITUDE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 16. The New Zealand Law Society, in a statement to-day, said considerable attention had been given to the servicemen’s Settlement, and Land Sales Amendment Act passed last week, and also to the regulations which preceded it, and which had been replaced by the amending act. When the regulations were gazetted on June 12 last, representatives of the society waited on the Minister of Rehabilitation 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 pfinciples as the regulations, and also contained a number of matters of procedure winch the society considered should be altered. ■ Substantial procedural amendments 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 objected throughout..
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 September 1946, Page 5
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