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Government Gazette Ordinance 1853

2. The Government Gazette Ordinance 1853.

An Ordinance for Establishing a Government Gazette for the Province of

Canterbury.

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

1. Government Gazette established.

There shall be a Government Gazette for the Province, for the publication of all public and official acts, instruments and notifications.

2. Superintendent may cause Government Gazette to be printed.

The Superintendent may cause the Government Gazette to be printed and published at such times, by such persons, and generally in such manner as he shall think fit; but nothing shall be printed or published therein Except by direction of the Superintendent.

3. Printed Gazettes to be evidence.

Printed copies of such Gazette, published by and in the name of the authorized Printers thereof for the time being, shall be evidence in all Courts of the due publication of everything therein contained; and such publication shall be considered due notice to all persons affected thereby, and sufficient justification to all persons lawfully Exercising any powers thereby publicly notified to be vested in them.

4. Gazette already published shall be a Government Gazette.

And whereas by an Act passed in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, entituled " An Act to Grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, by Proclamation in the Government Gazette, to fix such place or places within the limits of the Province, and such times for holding the first and every other Session of the Provincial Council as he may think fit; and whereas

the Superintendent of this Province of Canterbury did, on the thirteenth day of September in this present year, in pursuance of the powers vested in him by the said recited Act, issue a Government Gazette in the said Province, and did publish therein the place and time of holding the first Provincial Council of the Province, be it therefore enacted and declared that the said Government Gazette, dated the Thirteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, shall be taken and deemed to be a Government Gazette for the Prince of Canterbury within the intent and meaning of the above recited Act and of this Ordinance.

5. Title.

This Ordinance shall be entituled "The Government Gazette Ordinance, Session I., No. 2; " and reference thereto by such title shall constitute a sufficient recital of the whole Ordinance.

Notes.

This Ordinance was passed by the Canterbury Provincial Council on 11th

November 1853, and assented to by the Superintendent on 17th November.