New Zealand Gazette – 1856 – No. 32

Page 220

✨ Text of Legislation



Postmaster may estab-
lish local Posts.
Superintendent to fix
rates of postage for
local posts.
Revenues accruing
under this Act to be
applied to cost of ser-
vice.
Deficiency of Revenue
for the service to be
made up from Pro-
vincial Revenues.
Short title.

220

  1. It shall be lawful for the Postmaster of the Principal Post
    Office of any Province in New Zealand from time to time to establish
    any local Post or Postal Communication within such Province
    whenever he shall have been requested by the Superintendent acting
    upon an address of the Provincial Council to establish the same ;
    and every Post or Postal Communication so established shall be
    deemed to be a part of the Postal service of New Zealand estab-
    lished under the authority of the laws in force in that behalf.

  2. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent of any Province
    by Proclamation in the Government Gazette thereof, to fix the
    rates of postage payable for the transmission by any such Post or
    Postal communication of letters, newspapers, and other papers and
    parcels; and from time to time by any such Proclamation to alter,
    repeal, or abolish any postage so fixed as aforesaid, and to fix any
    other rate of postage in lien thereof. And all postage from time
    to time to become payable by virtue of any such Proclamation shall
    be charged and be payable accordingly; provided always that
    no such rate of postage shall exceed the sum which may have been
    specified for any such service by the Provincial Council of such
    Province.

  3. The said Postmaster shall cause a separate account to be
    kept of all the Postal Revenues accruing under this Act. And
    all such Revenues shall be expended in defraying the cost of the
    various postal services established under this Act in the Province
    in which such Revenues shall have arisen, and in no other
    object whatsoever.

  4. If the revenues arising in respect of any postal service es-
    tablished under the provisions of this Act shall be insufficient to
    defray the cost of such postal service; any such deficiency shall be
    made up out of the Provincial Revenues of the Province within
    which such revenue is established: And it shall not be lawful for
    any such Postmaster to establish any such service or incur any ex-
    pense thereon until the Superintendent thereof shall have guaran-
    teed the payment of any sums which may be necessary to make up
    any such deficiency as aforesaid.

  5. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the "Local Posts
    Act, 1856."



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🏛️ Continuation of Local Posts Act, 1856 provisions regarding establishment and rates. (continued from previous page)

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
15 August 1856
Legislation, Local Posts, Postmaster, Superintendent, Provincial Council, Postage rates, Provincial Revenues