NEW ZEALAND

OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

Vol. XII. DUNEDIN, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1868. No. 532.

JAMES MACANDREW,
Superintendent of
the Province of
Otago.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Provincial Government Buildings, Dunedin,
the Tenth day of March, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight.

Present:

His Honor the Superintendent;
The Provincial Secretary and Treasurer;
The Secretary for Land and Works;
Arthur John Burns, and
John Hughes, Esquires.

WHEREAS by the fourth section of the “Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865,” it is enacted that the Governor may, by any Order in Council from time to time, annul, make or alter, and vary and make anew, any Orders in Council, Regulations, Appointments or Prohibitory or other Declarations, made and published by the Governor, under the authority of the aforesaid Act, or “The Diseased Cattle Act, 1861:” And it is by the said Acts, respectively, also enacted that the Governor in Council may, by warrant under his hand, from time to time delegate to the Superintendent of any Province within the Colony all or any of the powers vested in the Governor or Governor in Council by the said Acts, subject to such regulations as he might think fit: And whereas by “The Governor’s Delegation Act, 1867,” it is enacted that within any Province in which by any Act or Ordinance it is provided that the Superintendent shall, in the administration of the Government thereof, act by and with the advice and consent of an Executive Council, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, under his hand and the public seal of the Colony, from time to time as occasion may require, to delegate to the Executive Government for the time being of such Province, subject or not to any restrictions or limitations as he may think fit, all or any of such powers as are or may be vested in the Governor, or Governor in Council, and which

by any Act or Ordinance now in force, or by any Act passed during the then present Session of Parliament, may be delegated to the Superintendent of a Province, or to any person or persons by the Governor, or the Governor in Council, and in like manner to revoke any such delegation: And whereas by an Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, intituled the “Executive Council Ordinance, 1861,” it is provided that the Superintendent of the said Province shall, in the administration of the Government thereof act by and with the advice and consent of an Executive Council: And whereas the Governor hath, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, delegated to the Executive Government of the Province of Otago all such powers within the said Province as are by the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” and the “Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865,” vested in the Governor, or the Governor in Council, and by virtue thereof may be delegated to have and exercise such powers within the said Province, subject to the provisions of “The Governor’s Delegation Act, 1867:”

And whereas by an Order in Council, made under the said Acts by virtue of the said delegation on the twenty-fourth day of December last, it was declared that from and after the twenty-third day of January, then next, the area of land thereafter described should be deemed an infected District, within the meaning and for the purposes of the said “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861.”

And whereas it is advisable to annul and make void the said Order in Council, and to Proclaim and Declare the area hereinafter described to be an infected District within the meaning and for the purposes of the “Diseased Cattle Act, 1861,” and “The Diseased Cattle Act Amendment Act, 1865.”

Now, therefore, His Honor James Macandrew, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Province, doth hereby, by virtue and in exercise of the powers delegated to the Executive Government of the said Province of Otago in this behalf, declare that...