PAPUA NEW GUINEA 

Land Disputes Settlement (Amendment) Act 2000.

No. 10 of 2000.
Certified on: 18.08.2000

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
1. Temporary orders by Magistrates (Amendment of Section 30).
2. Repeal and Replacement of Section 46.
	"46. APPOINTMENT OF PROVINCIAL LAND MAGISTRATES."

AN ACT
entitled
Land Disputes Settlement (Amendment) Act 2000,
Being an Act to amend the Land Disputes Settlement Act (Chapter 45), 
MADE by the National Parliament.
1	TEMPORARY ORDERS BY MAGISTRATES (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 30).
Section 30 (1) of the Principal Act is amended by repealing the words and figures "Magistrate Grade I and II" and replacing them with the following:-
	"District Court Magistrate".
2	REPEAL AND REPLACEMENT OF SECTION 46.
Section 46 of the Principal Act is repealed and is replaced with the following:-
	"46. APPOINTMENT OF PROVINCIAL LAND MAGISTRATES."
	(1)	The Minister may, by notice in the National Gazette, appoint a Principal Magistrate to be a Provincial Land Magistrate.
	"(2) For the purpose of this Act, the relative seniority as between themselves of Provincial Land Magistrates is in accordance with their respective appointments as Principal Magistrates.".

I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of the Land Disputes Settlement (Amendment) Act 2000 which has been made by the National Parliament.
Clerk of the National Parliament.
I hereby certify that the Land Disputes Settlement (Amendment) Act 2000 was made by the National Parliament on 5 April 2000.
Speaker of the National Parliament.