New Zealand Gazette – 1856 – No. 24

Page 142

✨ Publication of Legislation

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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 12th July, 1856.

IN pursuance of the provisions of the New Zealand Constitution Act, His Excellency the Governor
directs the publication of the following Acts of the General Assembly for public information.
By His Excellency's command,
"C. W. RICHMOND,
Colonial Secretary.

NATURALIZATION ACT, 1856.

IN THE TWENTIETH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN
VICTORIA.
SESSION 4, No. 2.

ANALYSIS.

Title.
Preamble reciting No. 2, Session 2.

Persons named in Schedule A. to be natur-
alized.
Persons may be naturalised by Proclama-
tion.
Short title.

Title.
AN ACT for the Naturalization of certain Persons in the Colony of New
Zealand.
(Assented to 7th July, 1856.)

Preamble resiting
No. 2, Sess. 2.
WHEREAS by an Act made and passed by the General As-
sembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Naturalization
Act, 1854," No. 2, Sess. 2, it was among others things enacted,
that all and singular the persons who should be declared to come
within the operation of the said Act, by any Proclamation to be
issued by the Governor, should be deemed and taken, until the next
Session of the General Assembly within the Islands of New
Zealand, to be natural born subjects of Her Majesty.
AND WHEREAS the persons particularly described in the
Schedule marked "A" hereunto annexed, have from time to time
been so declared to come within the operation of the said recited
Ordinance, and it is expedient that there should be removed from
them within the Colony of New Zealand the disabilities to which
aliens are by law subjected.
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand as
follows:

Persons named in
Schedule A. to be
naturalized.

All and singular the persons who are particularly described
in the Schedule marked "A" to this Act annexed, shall to all in-
tents and purposes whatever within the Colony of New Zealand,
be deemed and taken to be, and to have been from the dates set op-
posite their names respectively, natural born subjects of Her
Majesty, as if they had been respectively born within the realm of
. England.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1856, No 24

Parliament sat at General Assembly House (nicknamed the 'Shedifice') in Auckland from 1854-1864, sharing the building with the Auckland Provincial Council.

Ironically the Upper House met on the lower story, and the Lower House on the upper story.

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🏛️ Publication of the Naturalization Act, 1856, and Analysis

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated12 July 1856
KeywordsLegislation, Naturalization Act 1856, General Assembly, Proclamation, Schedule A
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C. W. Richmond, Colonial Secretary

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