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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1862.
ORDER IN COUNCIL
Delegating to Superintendent of Otago
certain Powers under "Gold Fields Act."
By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY,
K. C. B., Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief in and over the
Colony of New Zealand, &c., &c.,
&c., with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the
said Colony.
WHEREAS by the Fifteenth Section of
the "Gold Fields Act, 1858," it was
enacted that it should be lawful for the Go-
vernor by Order in Council, from time to time
to constitute for any Gold Field, or for any
part thereof, Wardens' Courts for the adminis-
tration of justice therein, and to appoint War-
dens as Judges of such Courts, with power to
act alone, or with Assessors or Juries, and in
such manner and to exercise all or any of the
powers in the said Act mentioned, as the Go-
vernor should think fit to direct. And by the
Forty-first Section of the same Act it was
further enacted that it should be lawful for the
Governor in Council under his hand and the
Public Seal of the Colony, from time to time
to delegate to the Superintendent of any Pro-
vince, or to such other person as the Governor
should deem fit, all or any of the powers vested
in the Governor or the Governor in Council by
the said Act, except as in the said Act is ex-
cepted, but not excepting the powers vested in
him by the said Fifteenth section, subject or
not to any limitations or restrictions as he
might think fit: And by the Twenty-seventh
section of the same Act it was enacted that it
should be lawful for the Governor in Council
from time to time to make, alter, and revoke
Rules regulating the Procedure and Practice in
the Courts to be established under the said
Act, and in cases of appeal therefrom, and
also to fix the fees to be taken in respect of
proceedings therein;
Now His Excellency the Governor doth by
this Instrument under his hand and under the
Public Seal of the Colony, and with the ad-
vice and consent of his Executive Council,
delegate to John Larkins Cheese Richardson,
Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of
Otago, so long as he shall continue Superin-
tendent of such Province, but no longer, the
powers contained in the said Fifteenth section
of the said recited Act, subject to the Regu-
lations first hereunder written.
And His Excellency the Governor doth by
this Order in Council make the Regulations
secondly hereunder written for the Practice
and Procedure of Wardens Courts of Gold
Fields heretofore and hereafter to be established
under the said Act.
Regulations Firstly before referred to.
All acts and appointments done and made
by the said Superintendent under the foregoing
delegation shall be provisional until the same
shall have been confirmed and allowed by the
Governor, and the Governor shall have power
to disallow the same.
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NZ Gazette 1862, No 3
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🏛️ Delegation of Gold Fields Act powers to Superintendent of Otago
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration8 January 1862
Order in Council, Gold Fields Act, Delegation of powers, Otago Province, Wardens Courts
- John Larkins Cheese Richardson (Esquire), Superintendent receiving delegated powers
- His Excellency Sir George Grey, K.C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- Executive Council