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Section 21. Affords facilities for the recovery of wages due to men who are lost with their ship.

Section 22. Enacts that the claim of Seamen to be relieved abroad or sent home in pursuance of Sections 211 and 212 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, shall be subject to such regulations, and dependent on such conditions, as the Board of Trade may from time to time make or impose.

Section 23. Gives to Courts of Inquiry duly instituted in any British Possession to investigate the cause of wreck or the conduct of Masters, Mates, and Engineers in the British Merchant Service, the power (hitherto exclusively exercised by the Board of Trade) of cancelling or suspending certificates of competency or service;

Section 24. Gives such Courts the power, which they did not previously possess, of demanding the delivery to them of a certificate pending the trial of the offender.

My Lords desire particularly to impress upon all Officers and Functionaries in the Colonies and Possessions abroad, concerned in the conduct of the inquiries above referred to, the necessity of a rigid compliance with the requirements in paragraph 6 of the 23rd Section above referred to, and to point out that unless it is in future shown upon the face of the report of a Court of Inquiry that these requirements have been strictly observed, it will not be in the power of this Board to withhold a certificate that may have been cancelled or suspended abroad, and the intention of the Act will be frustrated, as incompetent Officers may escape just punishment if there be any informality in the proceedings of such Courts.

Referring to the proviso in Section 242 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, (para. 5), it is important that in every case the report of a Court of Inquiry should be confirmed by the Governor, or person administering the Government, of the Colony or Possession in which the Inquiry is held.

Reports and evidence should in future, if possible, be sent in original, or if copies, they must be certified.

H.H.W.

T. H. FARREN,
Assistant Secretary,
Marine Department.

Notice to Justices of the Peace of “Jervis’ Acts,” by Glen, being procurable at the Colonial Secretary’s Office, Judicial Department.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Judicial Department,
Auckland, 28th February, 1863.

NOTICE is hereby given to gentlemen on the Commission of the Peace that the Imperial Statutes, regulating the duties of Justices of the Peace (Jervis’ Acts, published with Notes, by Glen, 2nd edition), may now be procured at cost price (8s.), on application at this office.

ALFRED DOMETT.

(From New Zealand Gazette, March 5, 1863.)

PROCLAMATION

Disallowing the Otago Criminals’ Ordinance, 1862.

By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same,

WHEREAS by an Act made and enacted in the Imperial Parliament holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled “An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand,” it is amongst other things enacted that whenever any Bill shall have been assented to by the Superintendent as in the said Act provided, the Superintendent shall forthwith transmit to the Governor an authentic copy thereof, and it shall be lawful for the Governor at any time within three months after any such Bill shall have been received by him to declare by Proclamation his disallowance of such Bill, and that any such disallowance shall make void and annul the same from and after the day of the date of such Proclamation, or any subsequent day to be named therein:

And whereas the Ordinance hereinafter specified has been enacted by the Superintendent of Otago, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, and the said Ordinance was received by the Governor on the nineteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two:

And whereas it is expedient that the said Ordinance should be disallowed,

Now, therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the authority vested in me in that behalf by the said recited Act of Parliament, do hereby proclaim and declare my disallowance of the following Ordinance, passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, viz:—

“The Criminals’ Ordinance, 1862.”

Given under my hand at the Government House at Auckland, this twenty-eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!