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Canterbury Police Amendment Ordinance 1861

12. The Canterbury Police Amendment Ordinance 1862.

Whereas it is expedient to amend the "Canterbury Police Ordinance, 1858, Session X., No. 1:

Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent of the said Province, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, as follows:

1. All excavations in certain cases to be covered in or secured.

Every person who shall have a well, water-hole, or any dangerous excavation, situated between his dwelling-house or the appurtenances thereof, and any street or footway, or at the side thereof, or in any yard or place open and

exposed to such street or footway, who shall not within the space of one calendar month from and after the coming into operation of this Ordinance, cause such well, waterhole, or dangerous excavation to be securely and permanently

covered over or otherwise secured or fenced in to the satisfaction of any

Resident Magistrate.

2. Bodies of animals in certain cases to be buried, under penalty. Every person who, within any portion of the said Province, not being an agricultural district within the meaning of the "Trespass of Cattle Ordinance," now

in force in the said Province, after request from any person, and every person who, in any agricultural district within the meaning of the said Ordinance, shall neglect to bury, or cause to be buried the body, or part of the body of any animal belonging to him, or in his charge or keeping, that may have died on his own land or premises, or that may have died while straying, or while being driven from one part of the Province to another, and every neglect to bury any animal, or part of any animal, shall be a separate offence.

3. Clauses referred to "Canterbury Police Ordinance 1858, Session X., No.

1."

That Clause 1 hereof shall stand as the commencement of Subsection 8, and Clause 2 hereof shall stand as the commencement of Subsection 15, Section 4 of the aforementioned Ordinance.

4. Title.

This Ordinance shall be entituled, and may be cited as "The Canterbury Police

Amendment Ordinance, Session XVII., No. 12 ."


Notes.

This Ordinance was passed by the Canterbury Provincial Council on 21st January 1862, and assented to by the Superintendent on the same day. It amended the “Canterbury Police Ordinance, 1858, Session X., No. 1.”


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