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AN ACT to empower the Superintendents and Provincial Councils to enact Laws
for regulating the Sale, Letting, Disposal, and Occupation of the Waste
Lands of the Crown.

(Assented to 16th August, 1856.)

Title.
Preamble reciting
New Zealand Consti-
tution Act and "Pro-
vincial Waste Lands
Act, 1854,"

Superintendents and
Provincial Councils
empowered to make
Laws for regulating
sale, &c., of the
Waste Lands of the
Crown.

Superintendent may
remove pers...s em-
ployed in the adminis-
tration of the Waste
Lands of the Crown
and appoint others.

Persons specially ap-
pointed by Superin-
tendent may perform
functions now vested
in Commissioner of
Crown Lands.

W HEREAS under and by virtue of an Act of the Imperial
Parliament passed in the Session 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," and of an Act of the General Assembly of New
Zealand, intituled "The Provincial Waste Lands Act, 1854,"
the General Assembly of New Zealand is enabled
to authorise and empower the Superintendent of any Pro-
vince, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council there-
of, to make Laws for regulating the sale, letting, disposal, and oc-
cupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown in such Province, either
absolutely, or upon such terms and conditions and subject to such
restrictions and limitations as may be prescribed by any act or acts
to be passed by the said General Assembly in that behalf. And
whereas it is expedient that the Superintendent of any Province,
with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, shall
have the power to make Laws as aforesaid. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of New Zealand as follows :-

1. Subject to the Provisions in the said recited Act of the
   Imperial Parliament contained, it shall be lawful for the Superin-
   tendent of each of the Provinces of New Zealand, with the advice
   and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, at any time,
   and from time to time, to make Laws for regulating the
   sale, letting, disposal, and occupation of the Waste Lands of the
   Crown within such Province, and also to amend, alter, or re-
   peal any Laws, Ordinances, or Regulations, now in force for any
   such purposes within the same. Provided always that every bill
   for such purpose shall be reserved for the signification of the Go-
   vernor's pleasure thereon.

2. It shall be lawful for each of the Superintendents of the
   said Provinces respectively to remove any person now employed in
   the administration of the Waste Lands of the Crown in such Pro-
   vince, and provisionally, until other provisions be made by law in
   that behalf, to appoint any other person or persons with full powers
   to perform and exercise all the powers, duties, and functions which
   may be performed or exercised by any person so removed.

3. Where, by any Law or Ordinance, or any regulations in
   force within any Province, any act, matter, or thing, is authorised
   or required to be done or performed by or in relation to a Commis-
   sioner of Crown Lands, every such act, matter, or thing, shall, un-
   til other provision be made by law in that behalf, be valid and
   effectual, if done or performed by or in relation to a person specially
   appointed in that behalf by the Superintendent of such Province,
   by warrant under his hand.