New Zealand Gazette – 1856 – No. 32

Page 223

✨ Legislation Text and Analysis

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one hundred pounds sterling in amount, for each conviction.
And whereas certain Acts and Ordinances have been passed by the
Superintendents and Provincial Councils of the said Provinces,
creating special offences not at the time of the passing thereof known
to the law of New Zealand or summarily punishable thereby, and
attaching penalties to the commission thereof, and which Acts and
Ordinances have received the assent of the Governor or Officer
administering the Government, or have been left to their operation.

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New
Zealand as follows:

Every Act or Ordinance, and every enactment and provi- This Act to have re-
sion thereof, heretofore passed by any Superintendent and Provincial trospective effect, and
Council which has not been disallowed by the Governor or Officer Ordinances hitherto
administering the Government, and which would have been legal and made and not disal-
valid if the hereinbefore recited Act of the General Assembly had lowed by Governor,
been in force at the time of the passing of such Act or Ordinance, rendered valid and ef-
shall be as valid and effectual and shall be deemed to have been as fectual from respective
valid and effectual from the time of the passing thereof as though dates of passing there-
the same had been passed by the General Assembly of New Zea- of.
land.
This Act may be cited for all purposes as the "Provincial Short title.
Laws Act, 1856."

PUBLIC OFFICES ACT, 1856.

IN THE TWENTIETH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN
VICTORIA.

SESSION 4, No 23.

ANALYSIS.

Title.
Preamble.

Governor authorised to sell allotments of land
described in Schedule,
Money to be applied towards erecting Publi
Offices for General Government.
Short title.
Schedule.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1856, No 32

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.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏛️ Validation of Provincial Council Ordinances under the Provincial Laws Act, 1856 (continued from previous page)

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated16 August 1856
KeywordsProvincial Laws Act, General Assembly, retrospective effect, Ordinances, validity

🏛️ Analysis of the Public Offices Act, 1856

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated16 August 1856
KeywordsPublic Offices Act, land sale, public offices erection, legislation analysis, 1856

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