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SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1884.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1884.

Rules, &c., for Vice-Admiralty Courts.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st March, 1884.

THE following Order in Council, statutes, and rules regulating Vice-Admiralty Courts, with forms and tables of fees, are published for general information.

Edwd. T. CONOLLY.

RULES

MADE IN PURSUANCE OF AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT PASSED IN THE TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY TOUCHING THE

PRACTICE TO BE OBSERVED IN THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURTS, WITH FORMS AND TABLES OF FEES,

AND ESTABLISHED BY THE QUEEN’S ORDER IN COUNCIL OF THE 23RD DAY OF AUGUST, 1883.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 23rd day of August, 1883.

Present:

THE QUEEN’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS there was this day read at the Board a memorial from the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, dated the 22nd day of August, 1883, in the words following, viz. :

Whereas by an Act passed in the twenty-second year of your Majesty’s reign, entitled “Vice-Admiralty Courts Act, 1863,” it was, amongst other things, provided that Her Majesty may, by Order in Council, from time to time establish rules touching the practice to be observed in the Vice-Admiralty Courts, as also tables of fees to be taken by the officers and practitioners thereof for all acts to be done therein, and may repeal and alter all existing and all future rules and tables of fees, and establish new rules and tables of fees in addition thereto or in lieu thereof:

And whereas it appears to us to be expedient that, in lieu of the rules and tables of fees now existing in the Vice-Admiralty Courts, the rules and tables of fees annexed hereto should, on and from the first day of January, 1884, be established and be in force in all the Vice-Admiralty Courts :

Now, therefore, it is most humbly submitted that your Majesty will be graciously pleased by your Order in Council to direct that all the existing rules and tables of fees in the Vice-Admiralty Courts be repealed, and that, in lieu thereof, the rules and tables of fees annexed hereto shall, from the first day of January, 1884, be the rules and tables of fees for all the Vice-Admiralty Courts.

Her Majesty having taken the said memorial into consideration was pleased, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, to approve of what is therein proposed. And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

C. L. PEEL.

Copy of Admiralty Board Minute.

The necessary steps are to be taken for carrying into effect the provisions of Her Majesty’s foregoing Order in Council.

A. C. KEY.

T. BRANDRETH.

By command of their Lordships.

G. TRYON.

Admiralty, 24th September, 1883.

ANNO VICESIMO SEXTO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.—CAP. XXIV.

AN ACT to facilitate the Appointment of Vice-Admirals and of Officers in Vice-Admiralty Courts in Her Majesty’s Possessions abroad, and to confirm the past Proceedings, to extend the Jurisdiction, and to amend the Practice of those Courts.

[8th June, 1863.

WHEREAS it is expedient to facilitate the appointment of Vice-Admirals and of officers in Vice-Admiralty Courts in Her Majesty’s possessions abroad, and to confirm the past proceedings, to extend the jurisdiction, and to amend the practice of those Courts: Be it therefore 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 for all purposes as “The Vice-Admiralty Courts Act, 1863.”

Interpretation of Terms.

2. In the interpretation and for the purposes of this Act if not inconsistent with the context or subject-matter, the following terms shall have the respective meanings herein-after assigned to them, that is to say,—

“Her Majesty” shall mean Her Majesty, her heirs and successors :

“The Admiralty” shall mean the Lord High Admiral or the Commissioners for executing his office :