New Zealand Gazette – 1842 – No. 48

Page 338

✨ Text of Legislation

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Rights under
existing Con-
tracts saved.

XX. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing herein contained shall
affect or be construed to affect any Contract, or to prevent the Fulfilment of any
Promise or Engagement, made by or on the Behalf of Her Majesty with respect
to any Lands situate in any of the said Colonies in Cases where such Contracts,
Promises, or Engagements shall have been lawfully made before the Time at which
this Act shall take effect in any such Colony.

Commence-
ment of the
Operation of
*this Act,

XXI. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect and have the Force of
Law in each of the Australian Colonies from the Day of the Receipt of a Copy
thereof by the Governor of such Colony, which Day such Governor shall certify and
by him for
that Purpose forthwith issued.

Definition of
*the Words
"Australian
Colonies," so

far as regards
*this Act.

XXII. And be it enacted, That by the Words "Australian Colonies," as employed
in this Act, are intended and described the Colonies of New South Wales, Van
Diemen's Land, South Australia, and Western Australia, and New Zealand, with
their respective Dependencies, as such Colonies are now or shall hereafter be defined
and limited, and also any other Colonies which may hereafter be established within
any of the existing Limits of the said Five Colonies, unless it shall in any Case seem
fit to Her Majesty, by any Instrument under the Great Seal by which any such new
Colony may be founded, to postpone, either for any Period to be therein limited, or
indefinitely, as to Her Majesty shall seem meet, the Time at which this Act shall take
effect within any such new Colony, in which case this Act shall take effect therein
from the Time to be so limited by such Commission, and not before.

Definition of
the Terms
"Proclama-
tion," and
"Waste
Lands."

XXIII. And be it enacted, That by the Word "Governor," as employed in the
present Act, is intended and described the Person who for the Time being shall be
lawfully administering the Government of any of the said Colonies respectively;
and that the several Proclamations which the Governors of the said respective
Colonies are hereby authorized to issue shall be so issued by him under the public
Seal of the Colony, and shall be made public in the most authentic and formal
Manner in use in any such Colony; and that by the Words "Waste Lands of the
Crown," as used in the present Act, are intended and described any Lands situate
therein, and which now are or shall hereafter be vested in Her Majesty, Her Heirs
and Successors, and which have not been already granted or lawfully contracted to
be granted to any Person or Persons in Fee Simple, or for an Estate of Freehold or
for a Term of Years, and which have not been dedicated and set apart for some
public Use.

Act may be
altered this
Session.

XXIV. And be it enacted, That this Act may be altered or amended during
the present Session of Parliament.

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