✨ Samoa Constitution Order
1622
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 51
PART XII.
PERSONS OF UNSOUND MIND.
Orders of Medical Custody.
- Application by Chief Medical Officer to High Court.
- Hearing of application.
- Order of medical custody.
- Renewal of order.
- Cancellation of order.
- Discharge from custody.
- Arrest and detention of persons committed to medical custody.
- Removal from Samoa to New Zealand.
- Conditions of removal.
- Method of removal.
- Persons so removed to New Zealand to be brought before a Magistrate.
- Magistrate may make a reception order.
- Warrant for arrest of persons of unsound mind.
- Arrest of persons of unsound mind without warrant.
Criminal Lunatics.
- Insane persons not to be tried for offences.
- Detention of accused persons acquitted on ground of insanity.
- Discharge.
- Orders of medical custody of criminal lunatics.
- Defence of insanity in criminal prosecutions.
PART XIII.
INTOXICATING LIQUOR.
- Manufacture of intoxicating liquor prohibited.
- Importation of intoxicating liquor prohibited.
- Sale of intoxicating liquor prohibited.
- Giving intoxicating liquor to a Samoan prohibited.
- Administrator may import liquor for medical services or for sale.
- “Intoxicating liquor” defined.
PART XIV.
THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE.
- Authority, powers, and functions of Public Trustee extended to Samoa.
- Public Trustee as executor of a will.
- Grant to Public Trustee of letters of administration.
- Removal of executor or administrator from office, and appointment of Public Trustee.
- Appointment of Public Trustee as trustee by High Court.
- Appointment of Public Trustee as trustee by persons settling property or having power to appoint trustee.
- Appointment of Public Trustee as committee of estate of person of unsound mind.
- Regulations or Ordinances as to insolvent and other estates.
- Powers and functions of Public Trustee.
- Remuneration of Public Trustee.
- Samoan Deputy Public Trustee.
- Power of delegation.
- Profits of Public Trustee.
PART XV.
ROADS.
- “Road” defined.
- Existing roads.
- Proclamation of existing roads.
- Proclamation of new roads.
- Roads to be vested in the Crown. Formation, maintenance, and repair.
- Closing of roads.
- Warrant as to roads to be gazetted.
PART XVI.
THE LAWS OF SAMOA: GENERAL PROVISIONS.
- Law of England as in the year 1840 to be in force in Samoa. Jurisdiction of the High Court.
- Common law and equity to be administered concurrently.
- Statute law of New Zealand not applicable to Samoa.
- Statute of Frauds and Statute of Frauds Amendment Act, 1828, not in force in Samoa.
- Common law rules disqualifying aliens from acquiring or holding land not in force in Samoa.
- When Act in force in Samoa amendments and regulations to be in force also.
- Acts in force in Samoa to be read subject to this Order.
- Criminal procedure in Samoa.
- Copyright Act, 1913, in force in Samoa.
- Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1911, in force in Samoa.
- Prescription and limitation of actions.
- Legal capacity and status of married women.
- Employer’s liability.
- No distress for rent.
- Calendar of Samoa.
- Banking.
- Currency.
- Statutory declarations.
- Contracts by Samoans.
- Securities given by Samoans.
- Succession to property of Samoans.
- Warrants of arrest.
- Application of specific Acts.
- Acts Interpretation Act, 1908, in force in Samoa.
PART XVII.
TRANSITORY PROVISIONS.
- Repeal of existing laws and abolition of Courts and public offices of Samoa.
- Saving of existing rights and liabilities.
- Taxes, fees, and assessments to continue until abolished.
- Property of German Government to vest in His Majesty.
- Continuance of corporate bodies.
- Appointments.
- Military government to continue until commencement of Order.
- Debts, liabilities, and assets of the military administration of Samoa.
Schedules.
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