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Cook Islands Amendment Act 1978-79

COOK ISLANDS

COOK ISLANDS AMENDMENT ACT 1978-79

ANALYSIS

Title
1. Short Title
2. Jurisdiction of the Land Court extended
3. Maximum fines and terms of imprisonment

1978-79, No. 19

An Act to amend the provisions of the Cook Islands Act 1915 relating to the jurisdiction of the Land Court

(19 March 1979

BE IT ENACTED by the Legislative Assembly of the Cook Islands in session assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:

1. Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Cook Islands Amendment Act 1978-79 and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Cook Islands Act 1915 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2. Jurisdiction of the Land Court extended

(1) Section 409 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting after paragraph (f) the following further paragraph -

"(g) Upon application by any interested party, to fix the capital value of any land or interest in land or the current market rental of any land or interest in land."

(2) The principal Act is hereby further amended by inserting after section 409, the following section:

"409B Land Rental Arbitration
Notwithstanding anything in any lease, contract or other document conferring rights in any person to land or an interest in land the Land Court may upon application by any interested party and upon sufficient cause being shown, hear, determine and fix the capital value of any land or interest in land or the current market rental of any land or interest in land.

3. Maximum fines and terms of Imprisonment

Section 272 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words and figures "two hundred "200" wherever they appear and substituting the words and figures "one thousand "1000".

This Act is administered in the Department of Justice and Lands.

RAROTONGA, COOK ISLANDS: Printed under the authority of the Cook Islands Government, by T. KAPI, Government Printer – 1979.