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Native Land Act 1909 Part XIII Alienation

Section 207
All existing restrictions on alienation of Native Land removed.

(1) All prohibitions or restrictions on the alienation of land
by a Native, or on the alienation of Native Land, which before
the commencement of this Act have been imposed by any Crown
grant, certificate of title, order of the Native Land Court,
or other instrument of title, or by any Act, are hereby removed,
and shall, with respect to any alienation made after the
commencement of this Act, be of no force or effect.
(2) Subject to the provisions of this Act, a Native may alienate
or dispose of any land or any interest therein in the same
manner as a European, and Native land or any interest therein
may be alienated or disposed of in the same manner as if it was
European land.

Section 208
Native land held by a single owner may be declared European
land by the Appellate Court.

(1) If any Native freehold land is owned in severalty and
beneficially by a Native for a legal estate in fee-simple,
the Native Appellate Court may, if it thinks fit, on the
application of that Native, make an order that the land shall
thereafter be held by him as European land, and thereupon the
land shall cease to be Native land, and shall at all times
thereafter and for all purposes be deemed to be European land
accordingly.
(2) Every such order may be registered under the Land Transfer
Act, 1908, against the title to any land affected thereby.

Section 215
Formalities of execution of instruments of alienation by Natives

(4) If the Native has not a knowledge of the English language
sufficient to enable him to understand the effect of the
instrument if read or explained to him in that language, there
shall, before the execution of the instrument by the Native, be
indorsed or otherwise written thereon a statement in the Maori
language correctly setting forth the material contents thereof,
and certified as correct by a licensed Interpreter of the first
grade, and also a plan of the land affected by the Instrument.

Section 217
Every alienation by a Native to be confirmed

(1) No alienation of Native Land by a Native shall have any
force or effect until and unless it has been confirmed by a
Maori Land Board or the Native Land Court.
(2) In the case of land in the North Island every such 
alienation thereof must be confirmed by the Maori Land Board of 
the district in which the land is situated, or if the land is
situated in two or more Maori land districts, then by the Maori
Land Board of the district in which the greater area of that
land is situated.

Section 219
Effect of Confirmation

(1) Confirmation shall be granted by a certificate of
confirmation indorsed or otherwise written on the instrument
of alienation, and sealed with the seal of the Board or the
Court, as the case may be.
(2) On confirmation being so granted the instrument of
alienation shall (if otherwise valid) take effect according
to its tenor, subject to the requirements (if any) of
registration under the Land Transfer Act, 1908, as from the
date at which it would have taken effect if no such confirmation
had been required.
(3) For the purposes of the Stamp Duties Act, 1908, the date of
the certificate or of each successive certificate of
confirmation shall be deemed to be the date of the execution of
the instrument in respect of the alienation thereby confirmed.