Taranaki Provincial Gazette – 1868 – No. 7

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✨ Order in Council

NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF TARANAKI).
Published by Authority.

XVI.] NEW PLYMOUTH, MONDAY, MAY 4, 1868. [No. 7.

(From the 'New Zealand Gazette.')
G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twelfth day of March, 1868.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by “The New Zealand Settlements Amendment and Continuance Act, 1865,” it is enacted that the order and manner in which land taken under the authority of “The New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863,” and “The New Zealand Settlements Amendment and Continuance Act, 1865,” should be laid out for sale and sold should be at the discretion of the Governor, who shall have power to cause such land or any part thereof to be laid out for sale and sold from time to time in such manner, for such consideration, and in such allotments as he shall think fit, and subject to such regulations as he shall with the advice of the Executive Council from time to time prescribe. And whereas by “The New Zealand Settlements Amendment Act, 1866,” it is provided that the said lands shall be sold for such consideration or at such price, and whether for cash or otherwise, as the Governor shall from time to time prescribe, and that all lands taken under authority of the said “New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863,” and “The New Zealand Settlements Amendment and Continuance Act, 1865,” or either of them, and sold or disposed of under the authority of the said first recited Act, shall be sold or disposed of under Regulations to be made by the Governor in Council, which Regulations shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor in exercise of all powers and authorities vested in him in that behalf, doth hereby, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, make the following Regulations for the sale and disposal of land taken under the said Acts or either or any of them in any part of the said Colony.

GENERAL REGULATIONS.

Whenever in any regulations made, or hereafter to be made, under the said Acts any powers are given to or any duty is imposed on the Colonial Secretary, such powers and duties shall be deemed to have been and to be given to and imposed upon the Minister for the time being in charge of the administration of confiscated lands.

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