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ANALYSIS.
Title.
£2500 per annum to £3500.
Preamble reciting creation of Civil List by
Constitution Act.
2. £3500 per annum to be payable from the
- Salary Payable to Governor altered from 1st of July 1856.
- Short title.
Title.
AN ACT to alter the Civil List granted to Her Majesty by the Constitution Act
so far as relates to the Salary of the Governor.
[15th August, 1856. Reserved for Her Majesty's assent.]
Preamble reciting
creation of Civil List
by Constitution Act.
W HEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament passed in
the Session held 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
enacted thatthere shall be payable to Her Majesty every year, out
of the Revenue arising from taxes, duties, rates, and imposts, and
from the disposal of the Waste Lands of the Crown in New Zea-
land, the several sums mentioned in the Schedule to the said Act
annexed. And whereas the salary payable to the Governor by
the said Schedule is Two Thousand Five Hundred pounds per
annum. And whereas it is by the said Act further enacted that it
shall be lawful for the General Assembly of New Zealand, by any
Act or Acts, to alter all or any of the sums mentioned in the said
Schedule, but that every Bill which shall be passed altering the
salary of the Governor should be reserved for the signification of
Her Majesty's pleasure thereon. And whereas it is expedient that
the salary payable to the said Governor by the said Schedule should
be altered as hereinafter provided.
BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New
Zealand as follows :
£3500 instead of
£2500 payable to Her
Majesty as the salary
of the Governor.
- There shall be payable to Her Majesty, every year out of
the Revenue arising from taxes, duties, rates, and imposts, levied
under any Act or Acts of the said General Assembly, and from the
disposal of the Waste Lands of the Crown in New Zealand, the
sum of £3500 as and for the salary of the Governor instead and in
lieu of the sum of £2500 as provided by the said Schedule.
£3500 instead of
£2500 to be payable
from the 1st day of
July, 1856.
2. As soon as this Act shall come into operation in accord-
ance with the 59th section of the said recited Act of the Imperial
Parliament, the said salary of £3500 shall be deemed to have
commenced from the 1st day of July, 1856.
Short title.
3. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Governor's
Salary Act, 1856."
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