New Zealand Gazette – 1856 – No. 32

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obedience to such Laws and Ordinances as may be passed by any Superintenden
and Provincial Council under and by virtue of the authority of the said recited
Act of the Imperial Parliament, it is expedient that any such Superintendent
and Provincial Council should have power to alter the jurisdiction of certain
courts of judicature of civil jurisdiction, and also in certain cases to alter the
criminal Law of New Zealand, and to declare certain Acts to be offences, and to
provide for the trial and punishment of such offences, notwithstanding that
such offences by the criminal Law of New Zealand may not be punishable in a
summary way,

lows
Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand as fol-

Power to Superin-
tendents and Provin-
eial Councils to enaet
laws altering the civil
jurisdiction of Courts
having jurisdiction in
cases when not more
than £20 claimed.

Power to Superinten-
dents and Provincial
Councils to enact laws
imposing a penalty not
exceeding £100 or
six months imprison-
ment.

Short Title.

1 It shall be lawful for the Superintendent and Provincial Council of any
Provina in New Zealand to make or ordain laws or ordinances for altering the
civil jurn iction of any court of summary procedure having jurisdiction in such
Province in all suits or proceedings where the debt or damage claimed shall not
exceed Twenty Pounds.

  1. The Superintendent and Provincial Council of any Province in New
    Zealand shall have power by any Acts or Ordinances to enact that certain Acts
    or omissions contrary to the provisions of such Acts or Ordinances shall
    be offences within the Province to which such Act or Ordinance
    shall relate, punishable summarily or otherwise, as may thereby be directed;
    Provided always that no felony shall be thereby created nor any punishment
    or penalty attached to any such act or omission which shall exceed six months
    imprisonment with hard labour or one hundred pounds sterling in amount for
    any one offence.

  2. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the "Provincial Councils
    Powers Act, 1856."

APPROPRIATION ACT, 1856.

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

SESSION 4, No. 36.



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🏛️ Text of the Provincial Councils Powers Act, 1856 (continued from previous page)

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
16 August 1856
Legislation, Provincial Councils, Civil Jurisdiction, Criminal Law, Penalties

💰 Start of the Appropriation Act, 1856 (Session 4, No. 36)

💰 Finance & Revenue
Appropriation, Finance, Legislation, 1856