New Zealand Gazette – 1920 – No. 98

Page 3211

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Dec. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3211

March, nineteen hundred and twenty, under the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890, and further in pursuance of the Treaties of Peace Act, 1919, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby order as follows:

  1. This Order may be cited as the Samoa Constitution Amendment Order, 1920, and shall be read with and form part of the Samoa Constitution Order, 1920.

  2. This Order shall come into force on the twenty-ninth day of November, nineteen hundred and twenty.

  3. Clause two hundred and seventy-nine of the Samoa Constitution Order, 1920, is hereby amended—
    (a.) By substituting the words “ten clear days” for the words “two clear days” in subclause one thereof.
    (b.) By omitting all the words in subclause two thereof after the words “the same,” and substituting the words “by posting it, in the form prescribed by the Administrator, on the church door or in some other recognized public place.”

  4. Notwithstanding anything in the Samoa Constitution Order, 1920, the Malietoa Law of the tenth day of February, eighteen hundred and ninety (concerning marriages in the Islands of Samoa and decree of divorce certificate), shall be and be deemed to have continued in force in Western Samoa until hereafter repealed by the Administrator by an Ordinance, and all marriages under the said law shall be deemed to be valid marriages for all purposes.

5.(1.) No Chinaman who has arrived in Samoa as an indentured agricultural labourer or otherwise in pursuance of any contract to serve as an agricultural labourer for any period or in pursuance of any scheme established by public authority for the importation of agricultural labourers shall marry a Samoan woman, or go through the ceremony of marriage with a Samoan woman.
(2.) Any such marriage or ceremony of marriage shall for all purposes be null and void.
(3.) No marriage officer or other person shall record or solemnize any such marriage.
(4.) If any person commits a breach of any of the provisions of this section he shall be guilty of an offence punishable by a fine of twenty pounds or by imprisonment for six months.

  1. Part XIV of the Samoa Constitution Order, 1920 (relating to the Public Trustee), is hereby revoked.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

THE SAMOA IMMIGRATION AMENDMENT ORDER, 1920.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of November, 1920.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, and in pursuance of the authority to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Territory of Western Samoa conferred upon him by the Western Samoa Order in Council, 1920, made by His Majesty on the eleventh day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty, under the Foreign Jurisdiction



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🌏 Samoa Constitution Amendment Order, 1920 (continued from previous page)

🌏 External Affairs & Territories
29 November 1920
Legislation, Samoa, Constitution, Amendment
  • F. D. Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council

🌏 Samoa Immigration Amendment Order, 1920

🌏 External Affairs & Territories
29 November 1920
Legislation, Samoa, Immigration, Amendment
  • Jellicoe, Governor-General
  • The Right Honourable W. F. Massey, P.C., Presiding in Council