New Zealand Gazette – 1856 – No. 16

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PENSIONS ACT, 1856.

In the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen
Victoria.

SESSION 4, No 1.

ANALYSIS.
Title.
Preamble.

  1. Governor may remove from office A.
    Sinclair, W. Swainson, and A.
    Shepherd.
  2. Annuities to be paid out of the General
    Revenue on their ceasing to hold office.
  3. To be paid quarterly.
  4. Provision that pension or annuity shall cease
    or be lessened in certain cases of holding
    other offices under Government.
  5. Governor may commute pensions within
    twelve months.
  6. Short title.
    Schedule A.
    Schedule B.

Title. AN ACT to provide for the retirement of certain Officers of the
Executive Government.

(Assented to 7th May, 1856.)

Preamble.
W HEREAS an alteration is about to be made in the mode of
Executive Government in the Colony of New Zealand
whereby the holders of the offices of Colonial Secretary, Attorney-
General, and Colonial Treasurer of New Zealand will become
removable from office on grounds merely political: And whereas
it is expedient with a view to the immediate retirement or removal
from office of the present holders of the said offices, namely, Andrew
Sinclair, Esquire, the Colonial Secretary, William Swainson, Esquire,
the Attorney-General, and Alexander Shepherd, Esquire, the Colonial
Treasurer, and with a view to the immediate introduction of the
said altered mode of Executive Government, that a retiring provi-
sion be made for the said present holders of the said offices: Be it
therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand as
follows :

Governor may re-
move from office
A. Sinclair, W.
Swainson, and A.
Shepherd.

  1. Whenever it shall appear to the Governor that it would be
    expedient that the said Andrew Sinclair, William Swainson,
    and Alexander Shepherd, or any of them, should cease to hold office
    as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Governor to remove them or
    him therefrom.


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🏛️ Pensions Act, 1856: Providing for retirement of Executive Officers

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
7 May 1856
Pensions, Legislation, Executive Government, Retirement, Colonial Secretary, Attorney-General, Colonial Treasurer
  • Andrew Sinclair (Esquire), Subject of retirement provision
  • William Swainson (Esquire), Subject of retirement provision
  • Alexander Shepherd (Esquire), Subject of retirement provision

  • The Governor