✨ Proclamation Disallowing Ordinance
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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official
Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made
to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Excellency's Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.
VOL II.] AUCKLAND, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1854. [No. 7.
PROCLAMATION.
to enable the Judge of the Supreme Court of
New Zealand at Wellington to exercise cer-
tain powers vested in the Superintendent in
case of the absence of the Superintendent
from the Province," Session 1, No. 27; and
the said Ordinance was received by me on the
eighteenth day of March, 1854; And whereas
it is expedient that the said recited Act should
be disallowed: Now, therefore, I, the Officer
administering the Government of New Zea-
land, in pursuance of the authority vested in
me in that behalf by the said Act of Parlia-
ment, do hereby proclaim and declare my
disallowance of the said recited Ordinance.
By His Excellency Lieu-
tenant - Colonel ROBERT
HENRY WYNYARD, Com-
panion of the Most Hon-
ourable 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 15th
and 16th 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 Superin-
tendent shall forthwith transmit to the Go-
vernor 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 such disallowance shall make void
and annul the same, from and after the day of
the date of such Proclamation or any subse-
quent day to be named therein. And
whereas an Ordinance hath been enacted by
the Superintendent of the Province of Wel-
lington, with the advice and consent of the
Provincial Council thereof, intituled "An Act
Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Islands of New Zealand
at Auckland, in the Islands
aforesaid, this twenty-third
day of March, in the seven-
teenth year of the reign of
Her Majesty Queen Victoria,
and in the year of Our Lord
one thousand eight hun-
dred and fifty-four.
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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NZ Gazette 1854, No 7
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🏛️ Proclamation Disallowing Wellington Provincial Ordinance
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration23 March 1854
Proclamation, Disallowance, Supreme Court, Wellington Province, Provincial Council, Legislation
- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary
- Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Henry Wynyard, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Officer administering the Government of the Islands of New Zealand
- Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary