Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1871 – No. 39

Page 280

✨ Delegation of Powers under Diseased Cattle Act

“The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” or “The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865:”

And whereas by the fifth section of “The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865,” it is enacted that the power of annulling, making void, or altering, or varying, and making anew any such regulations, appointments, or prohibitory, or other declarations, vested in the Governor by “The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865,” may from time to time be delegated by the Governor in Council, by Warrant under his hand, to the Superintendent of any Province:

And whereas the said Governor hath, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, delegated to William Rolleston, Esquire, the Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, within the said Province, so long as he shall remain Superintendent of the Province, the several powers vested in the Governor or the Governor in Council by the second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, and tenth sections of “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” aforesaid, and all the powers which by the fifth section of “The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865,” the Governor in Council is authorised so to delegate:

And whereas I, William Rolleston, by a Proclamation bearing date the nineteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the thirty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, did proclaim and declare that after the date of the publication of the said Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette all that District of the Province of Marlborough lying between the Clarence River, the Conway River, the seaward Kaikoura Range, and the Sea; the Province of Otago; and the County of Westland, in the Middle Island of New Zealand, should be deemed Infected Districts within the meaning of the said Acts:

And whereas it has been made to appear to me that the Province of Otago is free from the Disease called Pleuropneumonia:

Now therefore, I, William Rolleston, do hereby rescind, annul, and make void the said Proclamation, in so far as the same relates to the said Province of Otago.

This Proclamation to take effect from and after the day following the date of publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

Given under my hand, at Christchurch, this twenty-fifth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent.

CHRISTCHURCH

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of the Province of Canterbury, at the Lyttelton Times Office, Gloucester Street, by William Reeves, Official Printer for the time being to the said Government.