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Public Record Office Ordinance 1853

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.