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Reserves Act 1977

Financial provisions

86: Payment of rates on Maori reservations

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"How rates are paid on Maori land that everyone can use"

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When a Maori reservation is set up for everyone in New Zealand to use, you need to know how rates are paid on that land. If the Maori Land Court puts a body corporate or trustees in charge of the reservation, the Minister can help pay the rates. The Minister can agree with the body corporate or trustees to contribute some or all of the rate money, which comes from Parliament.

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Part 4Financial provisions

86Payment of rates on Maori reservations

  1. Where—

  2. pursuant to subsection (12) of section 439 of the Maori Affairs Act 1953 (as added by section 11(2) of the Maori Purposes Act 1972), the notice constituting a Maori reservation under the said section 439 specifies that the reservation shall be held for the common use and benefit of the people of New Zealand; and
    1. pursuant to subsection (7) of that section, the Maori Land Court has vested the reservation in a body corporate or in trustees to hold and administer the reservation—
        1. the Minister may, by agreement with the body corporate or the trustees, contribute towards the payment, out of money appropriated by Parliament for the purpose, of the whole or part of any rates from time to time levied on the land.