Examples of Native customary land in a sentence
The Solicitor-General contends that if he, as Solictor- General, says the land - that is, the bed of Lake Rotorua - is Crown land, that concludes the matter, and the Native Land Court cannot proceed to make any inquiries as to whether the land is Native customary land.
Definition of NCR: Tina Svan Hansen defined Native customary land, NCL, as land not held under title but subject to native customary rights, NCR (Hansen 2005:173).
Land is classified in five different categories, Mixed zone land, Native area land, Native customary land, Reserve land, Temporarily occupied land.Picture 10 - Tenure mapping.
Rights to land which had been used by indigenous people before January 1, 1958.• NCR allowed people to cultivate in designated areas known as Native customary land (NCL).• Uncleared land was now claimed by the state, so further clearing by indigenous was only allowed with permission.• Created to provide security for forest farmers, but the definition of NCL is vague which make local peoples rights and control over land unclear.Source: Horowitz; 1998, Human Ecology, vol.
These are; Mixed zone land (no restrictions on who can claim/purchase land entitlements), Native area land (natives can claim land entitlements), Native customary land (land held under no title, but natives have customary rights if they have been settled on the land earlier than 1958), Reserved land, and Interior area land (government lands reserved for forest) (Cramb & Wills, 1990).
The Solicitor- General contends that if he, as Solictor-General, says the land - that is, the bed of Lake Rotorua - is Crown land, that concludes the matter, and the Native Land Court cannot proceed to make any inquiries as to whether the land is Native customary land.
Native customary land is land ‘which, being vested in the Crown, is held by natives or the descendants of natives under native customs and usages of the Cook Islands’.
Mixed zone - no restrictions on who can acquire rights to the land.2. Native area land - in which only legally defined natives can hold a title.3. Native customary land - land not held under title but subject to Native Customary Rights9 (NCR).4.
The Solicitor-General contends that if he, as Solictor-General, says the land – that is, the bed of Lake Rotorua – is Crown land, that concludes the matter, and the Native Land Court cannot proceed to make any inquiries as to whether the land is Native customary land.
In 1941 Judge Acheson ruled in favour of the Maori applicants, to the effect that the mudflats were “papatupu or Native customary land for which an Order on Investigation of Title should issue”.59 The Crown appealed to the Native Appellate Court, but won what it must have regarded as a Pyrrhic victory.