NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,

PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

By His Honor’s command,

H. G. GOULAND, Provincial Secretary.

Vol. I.] THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1854. [No. XXVI.]

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, Nov. 11, 1854.

HIS HONOR THE SUPERINTENDENT directs the following Act, passed by the General Assembly, to be published for general information.

H. G. GOULAND,
Provincial Secretary.

An Act for regulating the Disposal of the Waste Lands of the Crown of New Zealand.

Whereas, by an Act passed in the Session of the Imperial Parliament holden in the 15th and 16th years of the reign of Her present Majesty, entitled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” it was enacted that subject to the provisions therein contained, it should be lawful for the General Assembly of the said Colony to make laws for regulating the sale, letting, disposal, and occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown in New Zealand, and that subject to the said provisions, and until the General Assembly should otherwise enact, it should be lawful for Her Majesty, by instructions to be issued under the Signet and Sign Manual, or signified through one of Her Majesty’s principal Secretaries of State, to delegate such powers to the Governor of the said Colony. And whereas such power pending the first meeting of the General Assembly was delegated to the said Governor by such instructions as aforesaid, and whereas certain General Land Regulations for the Colony of New Zealand were in pursuance of such powers so delegated, lawfully issued by the Governor of the said Colony in a Proclamation dated the fourth day of March, 1853. And whereas within certain parts of the said Colony certain other regulations for the disposal and management of the Waste Lands are now in force; and whereas it is expedient that until it shall be otherwise enacted by the General Assembly, the Governor should have the power subject to the conditions and in the manner hereinafter mentioned to issue and put in force regulations for the sale, letting, disposal, and occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown within the several Provinces of the said Colony.

Be it therefore enacted and declared by the General Assembly of New Zealand as follows:

1. All regulations for the sale, letting, disposal, and occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown in New Zealand now in force within the said Colony, or any part thereof, are hereby confirmed and declared to have been valid from the time when the same were put in force. Provided always that any such regulations may be amended, altered, or repealed by any regulations to be made and published as hereinafter contained.

2. If at any time the Superintendent and Provincial Council of any Province shall recommend to the Governor any regulations for the sale, letting, disposal, and occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown within such Province, or any part thereof, it shall