New Zealand Gazette – 1936 – No. 86

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✨ Proclamation of Demise of the Crown

Num. 86. 2433

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1936.

Proclamation notifying the Demise of the Crown.

[L.S.] GALWAY, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section four of the Demise of the Crown Act, 1908, it is enacted that any demise of the Crown shall not affect anything done in New Zealand before the day whereon the Governor by Proclamation notifies such demise, and all things done in New Zealand at any time after such demise but before the day of the publication of the Gazette containing the aforesaid Proclamation, and which but for the said Act might be affected by any such demise, shall have the same effect and be of the same force as if no such demise had happened:

And whereas His Most Gracious Majesty having by an Instrument of Abdication executed by him on the tenth day of December of this present year declared his irrevocable determination to renounce the Throne for himself and his descendants and his desire that effect should be given to such Instrument of Abdication immediately:

And whereas effect has been given thereto by an Act, known as His Majesty’s Abdication Act, 1936 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), passed at Westminster on the eleventh day of December in this present year, to which Act the Dominion of New Zealand and the other self-governing Dominions have assented:

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🏛️ Proclamation notifying the Demise of the Crown

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated12 December 1936
KeywordsProclamation, Demise of the Crown, Abdication, His Majesty’s Abdication Act, 1936
👱🏽 Names

Galway (Governor-General), Issued proclamation

👩‍💼 Officials

GALWAY, Governor-General

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