sideration of the subject, that while on the one hand
it is quite reasonable that a person who has registered
under the Imperial Medical Act should be required
to register in any Colony where he may desire to
practise, and where registration is enforced by law;
on the other hand, it is only just and equitable that
he should be entitled to be so registered upon pay-
ment of fees, and proof of his registration under the
Imperial Medical Act, without being compelled to
undergo any fresh professional examination. This
view is, as you will observe, embodied in the proviso
at the end of section 3 of this Act.

I have to desire that you will take such steps as
may be necessary to procure the repeal of any law
which has in terms enforced the registration in the
Colony of persons registered under the Imperial
Medical Act, and the passing of a fresh law in respect
of such persons in accordance with the provisions of
the recent Act.

I have, &c.,
BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS.

Governor Sir G. F. Bowen.

ANNO TRICESIMO PRIMO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.
CAP. XXIX.

An Act to amend the Law relating to Medical Prac-
titioners in the Colonies.
[29th May, 1868.

WHEREAS by the thirty-first section of "The Medical
Act," passed in the Session holden in the twenty-first
and twenty-second years of Her Majesty, chapter
ninety, it is enacted as follows: "Every person
registered under this Act shall be entitled, according
to his qualification or qualifications, to practise medi-
cine or surgery, or medicine and surgery, as the case
may be, in any part of Her Majesty's dominions, and
to demand and recover in any Court of Law, with
full costs of suit, reasonable charges for professional
aid, advice, and visits, and the cost of any medicines
or other medical or surgical appliances rendered or
supplied by him to his patients:" And whereas it is
expedient to amend the said enactment: Be it
enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by
and with the advice and consent of the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the
same, as follows:

Short Title.

1. This Act may be cited as "The Medical Act
   Amendment Act, 1868."

Interpretation of Act.
2. The term "Colony" shall in this Act include all
of Her Majesty's possessions abroad in which there
shall exist a Legislature as hereinafter defined, ex-
cept the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
The term "Colonial Legislature" shall signify the
authority other than the Imperial Parliament of Her
Majesty in Council competent to make laws for any
Colony.

Power to Colonial Legislatures to enforce registration of persons
registered under "The Medical Act."
3. Every Colonial Legislature shall have full power
from time to time to make laws for the purpose of
enforcing the registration within its jurisdiction of
persons who have been registered under "The Medical
Act," anything in the said Act to the contrary not-
withstanding: Provided, however, that any person
who has been duly registered under "The Medical
Act" shall be entitled to be registered in any Colony
upon payment of the fees (if any) required for such
registration, and upon proof, in such manner as the
said Colonial Legislature shall direct, of his registra-
tion under the said Act.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
563

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 30th November, 1868.
THE following Act of the Imperial Parliament is
published for general information.

E. W. STAFFORD.

ANNO TRICESIMO PRIMO AND TRICESIMO SECUNDO
VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.
CAP. XCIII.

An Act to remove Doubts respecting the Operation of
the New Zealand Company's Act of the Ninth and
Tenth Years of Victoria, Chapter three hundred
and eighty-two (Local and Personal).
[31st July, 1868.

Recital of 9 and 10 Vict. c. ccclxxxii. s. 51.
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of Parlia-
ment holden in the ninth and tenth years of Her
Majesty, intituled "An Act to grant certain Powers
to the New Zealand Company," after reciting that
divers land orders or contracts for the sale or con-
veyance of lands, tenements, and hereditaments in
New Zealand had from time to time been issued and
made by the said Company, it was, by the fifty-first
section, amongst other things enacted that a con-
veyance by the said Company, or their Trustees in
whom the same should be vested, of the lands,
tenements, and hereditaments to which any such
land order or contract should relate should be deemed
both at law and in equity, as well in the Colony of
New Zealand as elsewhere, a full and complete per-
formance by and on the part of the Company of the
contract or obligation contained in or resulting from
such land order to convey the said lands, tenements,
and hereditaments, and should exonerate the Com-
pany, their successors and assigns, from all responsi-
bility as to the disposition of such lands, tenements,
and hereditaments, or any of them, or any other
matter or thing consequent on or resulting from
such conveyance; but notwithstanding any rule of
law or equity to the contrary prevailing in the
Colony of New Zealand or elsewhere, the lands,
tenements, and hereditaments comprised in any such
conveyance should continue and be subject to such
equitable estates, charges, and liens, if any, created
by the purchaser or purchasers named in the land
order or contract to which the same should relate, or
any person deriving title from, through, or under
him, her, or them, as at the date of such conveyance
should be subsisting, or be then or thereafter capable
of taking effect, and the rights and interests of the
parties interested as or through the purchaser or
purchasers named in such land order or contract
(inter se) should remain unaffected thereby :

Recital of 14 and 15 Vict. c. 86.
And whereas by an Act passed in the Session of
Parliament holden in the fourteenth and fifteenth
years of Her Majesty, intituled "An Act to regulate
the Affairs of certain Settlements established by the
New Zealand Company in New Zealand," after re-
citing amongst other things that all the lands,
tenements, and hereditaments of the said Company
in the Colony of New Zealand had reverted to and
become vested in Her Majesty as part of the demesne
lands of the Crown in New Zealand, it was amongst
other things enacted that thenceforth, in all cases
falling within the provisions of the fifty-first
section of the hereinbefore recited Act of ninth and
tenth of Victoria, a grant or conveyance by Her
Majesty, her successors or assigns, should have the
like force and effect in all respects as a conveyance
by the New Zealand Company has or would have had
by virtue of the said Act in case the Company had
continued in full exercise of their functions: