Otago Provincial Gazette – 1855 – No. 24

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NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

[PROVINCE OF OTAGO.]

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

W. CARGILL, Superintendent.

Vol. II.] SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1855. [No. 24.

AUCTIONEERS’ LICENSE ORDINANCE.

In the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.

Session II. No. 9.

ANALYSIS.

  1. Ordinance Session II. No. 13, and Session III. No. 10, (Legislative Council) repealed.
  2. No person to sell by auction without license.
  3. Form of license.
  4. Amount of Auctioneers’ License.
  5. Licensed Auctioneers to be published.
  6. Hours of Business.
  7. Penalty for selling by auction without license.
  8. Non-production of license.
  9. Penalty for selling at illegal hours.
  10. Ordinance not to extend to Government Sales.
  11. Commencement.

AN ORDINANCE to repeal all former Ordinances and Laws relating to the Licensing of Auctioneers, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof.

WHEREAS an Ordinance was enacted by the Governor and Legislative Council of New Zealand, Session II., No. XIII., entitled “An Ordinance for Licensing Auctioneers;” and whereas an Ordinance was enacted by the Governor and Legislative Council of New Zealand, Session III., No. X., entitled “An Ordinance to amend an Ordinance for Licensing Auctioneers;” and whereas it is expedient that the above-recited Ordinances, so far as the same relate to the Province of Otago, should be repealed, and other provision made in lieu thereof:

Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof as follows:

  1. The above-recited Ordinances, so far as the same relate to the Province of Otago, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed.

  2. No person shall, after the passing of this Ordinance, sell any estate, goods, or effects by way of Auction, or in any way whereby the highest bidder shall be deemed the purchaser, either by Public Sale or otherwise, unless he shall be duly licensed as hereinafter provided.

  3. Every such license shall be in the form in the Schedule hereunto annexed, and every such license shall expire on the first day of May next ensuing after the date of such license.

  4. Such license shall be issued by the Provincial Treasurer to any person who shall apply for the same on payment of the sum of £20.

  5. The Provincial Treasurer shall, within ten days after the date of any such license, cause the name, place of abode, and calling of any person or persons to whom he shall have granted such license, to be advertised in a newspaper published in the Province of Otago.

  6. No person so licensed shall exercise his business as an Auctioneer by any artificial light, or after the hour of five o’clock in the afternoon, from April to September inclusive, or after the hour of seven o’clock in the evening during the residue of the year.

  7. If any person, not being duly licensed, shall sell any estate, goods, or effects by way of Auction or any way whereby the highest bidder shall be deemed the purchaser, either by Public Sale or otherwise, he shall forfeit



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  • W. CARGILL, Superintendent