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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.
JAMES EDWARD FITZ GERALD,
Superintendent.
Vol. I.] TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1854. [No. VI.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel ROBERT HENRY WYNYARD, Companion of the most Honourable Order of the Bath, the Officer Administering the Government of the Islands of New Zealand, &c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in the Parliament holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled an “Act to Grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” it is amongst other things enacted that whenever any Bill shall have been assented to by the Superintendent as in the said recited Act provided; the Superintendent shall forthwith transmit to the Governor an authentic copy thereof; and it shall be lawful for the Governor at any time within three months after any such Bill shall have been received by him to declare by Proclamation his disallowance of such Bill, and that any such disallowance shall make void and annul the same, from and after the day of the date of such Proclamation or any subsequent day to be named therein.
And Whereas an Ordinance hath been enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, intituled “An Ordinance to empower the Superintendent of Canterbury to perform certain Acts, heretofore performed by the Governor or Lieutenant Governors of New Zealand,” Session I, No. 8, and the said Ordinance was received by me on the 24th day of January, 1854.
And Whereas it is expedient that the said recited Ordinance should be disallowed, Now therefore, I, the Officer Administering the Government of New Zealand, in pursuance of the authority vested in me in that behalf by the said recited Act of Parliament, do hereby proclaim and declare my disallowance of the said recited Ordinance.
Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand at Auckland in the Islands aforesaid this twenty-seventh day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and in the seventeenth year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.
R. H. WYNYARD,
The Officer Administering the Government of the Islands of New Zealand.
By His Excellency’s command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR.
Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1854, No 6
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🏛️ Disallowance of Canterbury Provincial Ordinance
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration27 January 1854
Proclamation, Disallowance, Ordinance, Canterbury, Constitution
- Robert Henry Wynyard, Companion of the most Honourable Order of the Bath, The Officer Administering the Government of the Islands of New Zealand
- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary