✨ Order in Council Native Regulations
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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1862.
ORDER IN COUNCIL,
For ascertaining assent of Natives to
Regulations under "Native Districts
Regulation Act, 1858."
AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE AT AUCKLAND
ON FRIDAY, THE 7TH DAY OF MARCH,
1862.
Present:—
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
W HEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled the
"Native Districts Regulation Act, 1858," it is
provided that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council from time to time to
appoint Districts for the purposes of the said
Act, being Districts over which the Native
Title shall not for the time being have been
extinguished:
And by the same Act it is further provided
that it shall be lawful for the Governor in
Council from time to time to make and put in
force within any such District, Regulations for
various purposes in the said Act described:
And that all such Regulations shall be made
as far as possible with the general assent of the
Native population affected thereby, to be as-
certained in such manner as the Governor may
deem fitting:
And whereas in order to ascertain such assent
it is expedient to provide in the first instance for the orderly and deliberate framing of such
Regulations by the Natives themselves, when-
ever practicable, through the Native Institution
of the Runanga, and that specific powers in
that behalf should be conferred upon the Ru-
nanga accordingly:
And whereas it may be expedient that
Regulations to be so put in force within any
such District should be either General Regula-
tions applicable to the whole District, or Local
Regulations applicable only to a portion of
such District, as the case may be:
Now therefore His Excellency the Go-
vernor, by and with the advice and consent of
his Executive Council, and in exercise of the
assent of the Native population to any such
District as aforesaid shall be ascertained in
manner following, that is to say:
-
If the Governor shall think fit at any
time by Order in Council to constitute within
any District or group of Districts or part of a
District appointed under the said Act, a Native
Runanga for the purpose of ascertaining such
assent as aforesaid, such Runanga shall be
termed the "District Runanga of
," or
the "Village Runanga of
," as the case
may be and every such Runanga shall con-
tinue during the Governor's pleasure. -
Every District or Village Runanga shall
consist in the first instance of such Native
Chiefs as may be appointed by the Governor
to be members thereof, and of such other
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