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Provincial Council Extension Ordinance 1866

Session XXV 1866 (March 1866)

1. The Provincial Council Extension Ordinance 1866

Analysis. Preamble.

1. Repealing Clause.

2. Certain Provisions of Proclamation of His Excellency the Governor to be null and void.

3. Province to be divided into Twenty-eight Districts.

4. Number of Members to be elected for each District.

5. Provincial Electoral Rolls to be formed.

6. To consist of electors on rolls for House of Representatives.

7. Such rolls to be in force.

8. Limitation of Ordinance in respect of Westland Districts.

9. This Ordinance when to come into force.

10. Title.

Whereas by an Act of the Imperial Parliament passed in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria entituled " An Act to Grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand " it was enacted that it should be lawful for the Governor by proclamation to constitute within each of the Provinces by the said Act established convenient Electoral Districts for the Election of Members for the Provincial Council and of the Superintendent and to appoint and declare the number of Members to be elected for each such District for the Provincial Council and to make

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

1. Repealing Clause.

The said recited Ordinances of the Superintendent and Provincial Council are hereby repealed.

2. Certain Provisions of Proclamation of His Excellency the Governor to be null and void.

The provisions made in the said Proclamation by the Governor of New Zealand under the authority of the said recited Act of the Imperial Parliament in respect to the number and extent of the said Districts the number of Members of the Provincial Council to be elected for each District so far as the said provisions are repugnant to or interfere with the operation of this Ordinance shall be and they are hereby declared to be void and of no effect.

3. Province to be divided into Twenty-eight Districts.

The Province of Canterbury for the election for the Superintendent and the Members of the Provincial Council thereof shall be divided into Twenty-eight Districts to be named as follows:

4. Number of Members to be elected for each District.

5. Provincial Electoral Rolls to be formed.

6. To consist of electors on rolls for House of Representatives.

7. Such rolls to be in force.

8. Limitation of Ordinance in respect of Westland Districts.

The Provisions of this Ordinance relating to the Hokitika Greymouth and Westland Districts shall continue in force until the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven and no longer.

9. This Ordinance when to come into force.

This Ordinance shall come into operation on the day of the next dissolution of the

Provincial Council.

10. Title.

This Ordinance shall be entituled and may be cited as " The Provincial Council

Extension Ordinance 1866."