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Proclamation of an infected District wholly or to any part thereof, and also the Proclamation of any such exception as aforesaid.
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In the exercise of powers delegated under the 10th section of the Act, the Superintendent of any Province may prohibit the importation either by land or by sea of Cattle into such Province from any other Province or any particular port or place in any other Province, or across the borders of a Province or any particular part thereof.
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In all such last-mentioned cases, such Superintendent shall cause notice as speedily as possible to be given to the Superintendent of the Province from which importation shall be prohibited, and also to the Governor.
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The Superintendent of any Province may, in his discretion, suspend or forbear to exercise all or any of the powers delegated to him under the said Act.
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The Superintendent of each Province shall, as soon as can be after the commencement of each sitting of the Provincial Council of such Province, lay before such Council copies and particulars of all appointments, regulations, acts, and proceedings whatever, issued, made, or done by him under the delegated powers of the said Act.
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If the Provincial Council of any Province shall by resolution declare their dissent from all or any of such appointments, regulations, acts, and proceedings, such resolution shall be forthwith transmitted by the Speaker to the Governor for his consideration.
F. G. STEWART,
Clerk of Executive Council.
Warrant Delegating to the Superintendent of Southland the Governor’s power to appoint Returning Officers, &c.
By His Excellency Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion 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, &c. &c. &c.
WHEREAS by the "Provincial Elections Act, 1858," the Governor is empowered to delegate to the Superintendent of any Province the power of appointing and removing Returning Officers, and also of appointing and establishing Polling Places for the election of Members of the Provincial Council of such Province; Now, therefore, I, Thomas Gore Browne, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the said power and authority, do hereby delegate to James Alexander Robertson Menzies, Esq., the Superintendent of the Province of Southland, in the said Colony, the above-recited powers, to be held and exercised by him from time to time as he shall think fit, so long as he shall hold the said office of Superintendent.
Given under my hand at the Government House at Auckland, this thirtieth day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
T. Gore Browne.
By His Excellency’s command,
William Fox.
Southland Provincial Gazette 1861, No 6
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Regulations for Delegation of Powers under Diseased Cattle Act
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🌾 Primary Industries & Resources6 September 1861
Diseased Cattle Act, Regulations, Delegation of Powers, Provincial Superintendents, Importation Prohibition
- F. G. Stewart, Clerk of Executive Council
🏛️ Warrant Delegating Powers to Southland Superintendent
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration30 August 1861
Provincial Elections Act, Delegation of Powers, Returning Officers, Polling Places, Southland
- James Alexander Robertson Menzies (Esquire), Delegated powers to appoint Returning Officers
- Thomas Gore Browne, Governor
- William Fox, By His Excellency’s command