Acts Affecting Native Lands, Etc. (In English and Maori), Passed by the General Assembly, Session 1892, 1893, 1897, 1898, 1899.
[1st November, 1898
[1st November, 1898.
Preamble.Whereas it is equitable that deserving persons who during the prime of life have helped to bear the public burdens of the colony by the payment of taxes, and to open up its resources by their labour and skill, should receive from the colony a pension in their old age:
Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1. | Short Title. The Short Title of this Act is "The Old-age Pensions Act, 1898." |
2. | Interpretation. In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context,—
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