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CONSTITUTION ACT AMENDMENT.
(20 & 21 VICT., CAP. LIII.)
AN ACT TO AMEND THE ACT FOR GRANTING A REPRESENTATIVE CONSTITUTION TO THE
COLONY OF NEW ZEALAND. [17th August, 1857.]
WHEREAS it is expedient
that an Act passed in the Session holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of
Her Majesty, chapter seventy-two,
to grant a Representative Constitution to the
Colony of New Zealand, should be amended by repealing certain clauses thereof,
whereby
certain charges were imposed on the Territorial Revenue of the said
Colony, for which charges other provision has been or is intended
to be made,
and making further and other provision for enabling the General Assembly of New
Zealand to alter the enactments thereof:
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most
Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and Commons,
in this present Parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the same, as follows: -
1. Sections sixty-seven,
sixty-eight, sixty-nine, and seventy-four of the said Act of the fifteenth and
sixteenth years of Her Majesty,
and so much of section sixty-two of the said Act
as authorizes and requires the Governor to pay out of the revenue arising from
the
disposal of waste lands of the Crown sums on account of the purchase of land
from aboriginal natives, or the release or extinguishment
of their rights, and
sums payable to the New Zealand Company, are hereby repealed:
2. It shall
be lawful for the said General Assembly of New Zealand, by any Act or Acts, from
time to time to alter, suspend, or repeal
all or any of the provisions of the
said Act, except such as are hereinafter specified; namely, -
So much of the said Act as repeals former Acts, Letters Patent, Instructions, and Orders in Council:
The provisions contained in sections three, eighteen (save the exception
therein contained), twenty-five, twenty-eight, twenty-nine,
thirty-two,
forty-four, forty-six, forty-seven, fifty-three, fifty-four, fifty-six,
fifty-seven, fifty-eight, fifty-nine, sixty-one,
sixty-four (save so much as
charges the Civil List on the revenues arising from the disposal of waste lands
of the Crown), sixty-five,
seventy-one, seventy-three, and eighty of the said
Act:
But no such Act of the General Assembly as aforesaid, which shall alter,
suspend, or repeal any of the provisions contained in section
nineteen of the
said Act, shall have any force or effect unless the same shall have been
reserved for the signification of Her Majesty's
pleasure thereon, and until the
Governor of New Zealand shall have signified, as provided by the said Act, that
Her Majesty has been
pleased to assent to the same.
3. This Act shall be
proclaimed in New Zealand by the Governor, or person administering the
Government thereof, within six weeks after
a copy of such Act shall have been
received by such Governor, and shall take effect in New Zealand from the day of
such Proclamation; except that the repeal of section
seventy-four of the said recited Act, and of so much of section sixty- two as
relates to sums payable
to the New Zealand Company, shall only take effect if on
or before the fifth clay of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight,
payment be made to the New Zealand Company of the sums and in the manner
specified in the New Zealand Company's Claims Act, passed
during the present
Session of Parliament.
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