Order in Council Regulations




Numb. 27.
299

The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1864.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

Appointing Regulations for the Native District
of Kaipara.

G. GREY,
Governor.

At the Government House, at Auckland,
on the twenty-eight day of June, 1864.
Present:
His Excellency The Governor in Council.

WHEREAS 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 (among other
things) for the prevention of Drunkenness,
and for the sale, removal, and disposal of
spirituous or fermented liquors, and for the
Restriction or Prohibition of such sale, re-
moval, and disposal, and by the same Act it
is further provided that it shall be lawful by
any such regulation to impose penalties not
exceeding Fifty Pounds for the breach or
non-observance of any such regulation, and
that any such regulation shall be made, as
far as possible, with the general assent of the
native population affected thereby, to be
ascertained in such manner as the Governor

may deem fitting. And whereas by Order
in Council bearing date the third day of
February, 1864, the district of Kaipara hath
been appointed for the purposes of the said
Act, and whereas it is expedient to make and
put in force within such District the follow-
ing regulations relating to the sale, removal,
and disposal of sprituous and fermented
liquors, and the general assent thereto of
the Native population affected thereby has
been asecrtained to the satisfaction of the
Governor.

Now. therefore, His Excellenǝy the Go-
vernor by and with the advice and consent of
his Executive Council doth hereby make and
put in force within the said District of
Kaipara the following Regulations, that is
to say:-

  1. No person shall sell and dispose of
    spirituous or fermented liquors within
    the said District; and every person
    offending against this Regulation shall
    be liable for each offence to a penalty
    not exceeding Fifty Pounds.

  2. No person shall remove any spiritous
    or fermented liquors from any place out-
    side the said District into any place
    within the same, or from any place within
    the said District to any other place
    within the same without a license in that
    behalf previously had and obtained in
    manner hereinafter mentioned; and
    every person offending against this Re-
    gulation shall be liable for each offence
    to a penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds.

  3. It sball be lawful for any Resident
    Magistrate with the concurrence of at



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🪶 Order Appointing Regulations for the Native District of Kaipara regarding Liquor

🪶 Māori Affairs
28 June 1864
Order in Council, Kaipara, Native District, Liquor sales, Regulations, Penalties
  • G. Grey, Governor