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7. The Public Record Office Ordinance 1853.
Be it enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, as follows:—
1. Public Record Office created, and Keeper of Records to be appointed.
There shall be a Public Record Office for the safe custody and registration
of all the Public Records of the Province; and there shall
be a Keeper of the
Public Records, who shall be appointed by the Superintendent, by Warrant under
his hand, and shall hold office
during good behaviour.
2. What to be filed in Record Office.
The Original of every Law or Ordinance which shall be enacted by the
Superintendent and Provincial Council, and of everything which
shall be sealed
with the Public Seal, or of every Act, Instrument, Notification, Gazette,
matter, or thing published by and on behalf
of the Government of the Province,
shall be deposited in the public Record Office; and all documents so deposited
in the Public Record
Office shall be final evidence, in all Courts of Law, of
the contents of all such Documents
3. Keeper of Records to endorse date of Receipt.
The Keeper of the Public Records shall endorse upon every Document which
shall be deposited in the Office, the date upon which he
shall have received the
same.
4. Documents how removable from Record Office.
No document of any kind which shall have been deposited in the Public Record
Office, shall be removed therefrom, except in the custody
of the Keeper thereof,
nor except in pursuance of a Warrant under the hand of the Superintendent, or
under the hand of a Judge of
the Supreme Court, or under the hand of the Speaker
of the Provincial Council, requiring production of such Documents at certain
time and place to be specified in such Warrant.
5. Superintendent may make Regulations.
It shall be lawful for the Superintendent, with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council, to make Regulations for the management
of the Office of
Public Records, and for the safe custody of the Documents deposited therein, and
for the convenience of persons
consulting the same, and to fix a Scale of Fees
to be paid by such persons; and such Regulations and Scale of Fees, with such
advice
as aforesaid, to alter and rescind, and to make others in their stead.
And all such Regulations and Scale of Fees, being published
in the Government
Gazette, shall be binding on all persons whom they concern.
6. Title.
This Ordinance shall be entituled and may be cited as “The Public Record Office
Ordinance, Session I., No. 7.”
Notes.
This Ordinance was passed by the Canterbury Provincial Council, and assented to by the Superintendent on 23rd November 1853.
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