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gulating 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 Re-
gulations 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 said 4th 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 THERFORE ENACTED AND DECLARED by the General As-
sembly of New Zealand as follows:

1. All Regulans for the sale, letting, disposal, and occupation
   Confirming Regula- of the Waste Lands of the Crown in New Zealand now in force
   tions 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   amended, altered, or repealed, by any Regulations to be made and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.

Superintendent and
Provincial Council
of any Province may re-
commend Regulations
for disposal of Waste
Lands to the Go-
vernor.

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 be
   lawful for the Governor if he shall think fit, from time to time with
   the advice of his Executive Council, by Proclamation in the New
   Zealand Government Gazette, to issue and put in force such Regu-
   lations within such Province, or any part thereof, on a day to be
   named in the Gazette in which the same shall be published, not
   being less than one calendar month from the publication
   thereof.

Such regulations
shall be previously
published in the Pro-
vincial Government
Gazette.

3. No such Regulations shall be proposed to any Provincial
   Council for their adoption by the Superintendent, or by any mem-
   ber thereof, unless the same shall have been previously published in
   the Government Gazette of the Province in which such Regulations
   are proposed to be brought into operation, or in some newspaper
   to be published in the capital Town thereof, for the space at least
   of twenty-eight days, nor until fourteen days after the commence-
   ment of the Session in which the same shall be proposed. Pro-
   vided always that it shall be competent for the Provincial
   lations within such Province, or any part thereof, on a day to be
   named in the Gazette in which the same shall be published, not
   being less than one calendar month from the publication
   thereof.

Council for their adoption by the Superintendent, or by any mem-
ber thereof, unless the same shall have been previously published in
the Government Gazette of the Province in which such Regulations
are proposed to be brought into operation, or in some newspaper
to be published in the capital Town thereof, for the space at least
of twenty-eight days, nor until fourteen days after the commence-
ment of the Session in which the same shall be proposed. Pro-
vided always that it shall be competent for the Provincial