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ORDER IN COUNCIL

Regulations respecting delegation of powers to Superintendents under "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861."

AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE AT AUCKLAND,
THE SIXTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1861.

Present:—
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Warrants under the hand of His Excellency the Governor, bearing date the sixth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, the Governor did with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, delegate to the Superintendents respectively of the Provinces of Auckland, Taranaki, Wellington, Hawke's Bay, Nelson, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland, certain powers conferred on him by the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," subject to certain Regulations to be made by the Governor in Council, under the recited Act:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, by virtue of the authority given to him by the 14th section of the above-recited Act, doth hereby make and ordain the following Regulations:—

1. The Delegation of Powers under the said Warrant shall continue to be in force for the period of one year from this date, subject to be rescinded according to the provisions of the above-recited Act.

2. Each Superintendent shall, immediately after exercising any of the Delegated Powers, notify the same to the Governor, and he shall transmit to the Governor particulars of all appointments, and copies of all Regulations made by him.

3. He shall, so soon as conveniently can be, notify all Regulations made by him to the Colonial Secretary, or Chief Secretary of each of the Australian Colonies, and cause the same to be published in England in the 'Times' newspaper.

4. In the exercise of powers, delegated under the 9th section of the said Act, the Superintendent of any Province may either in the first instance, or afterwards from time to time by proclamation in the 'Government Gazette' of the Province except out of any district proclaimed as infected under the said Act, any port or place within the limits of such district. And every such excepted port and place shall be deemed not to be within the proclaimed district; and the Superintendent may also from time to time by proclamation as aforesaid rescind any proclamation of an infected district wholly or as to any part thereof, and also the proclamation of any such exception.

5. In the exercise of powers delegated under the 10th section of the Act, the Superintendent of any Province may prohibit the importation either by land or by sea of Cattle into such Province from any other Province or any particular port or place in any other Province, or across the borders of a Province or any particular part thereof.

6. In all such last-mentioned cases, such Superintendent shall cause notice as speedily as possible of such prohibition to be given to the Superintendent of the Province from which importation shall be prohibited, and also to the Governor.

7. The Superintendent of any Province may, in his discretion, suspend or forbear to exercise all or any of the powers delegated to him by the said Act.

8. The Superintendent of each Province shall, as soon as can be after the commencement of each sitting of the Provincial Council of such Province, lay before such Council copies and particulars of all appointments, regulations, acts, and proceedings whatever, issued, made, or done by him under the delegated powers of the said Act.

9. If the Provincial Council of any Province shall by resolution declare their dissent from all or any of such appointments, regulations, acts, and proceedings, such resolution shall be forthwith transmitted by the Speaker to the Governor for his consideration.

F. G. STEWARD,
Clerk of Executive Council.
G. G. Gazette, No. 40, September 7, 1861.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, September 6, 1861.

HIS Excellency the Governor, in Council, has been pleased to delegate under the "Diseased Cattle Act, 1861," to the Superintendents respectively of the Provinces of

Auckland
Taranaki
Wellington
Hawke's Bay
Nelson
Canterbury
Otago and
Southland

the several powers vested in the Governor by the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th and 10th Sections of the said Act, subject to be rescinded as in the said Act provided, and subject to the Regulations contained in the Order in Council of even date herewith.

WILLIAM FOX.
G. G. Gazette, No. 40, September 7, 1861.

A PROCLAMATION
Disallowing Pleuro-Pneumonia Ordinance, Canterbury.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS GORE BROWNE, Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in the Imperial 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 Act provided, the Superintendent shall forthwith