Provincial Acts Validation Act, 1867

Provincial Secretary's Office,
January 8, 1868.

THE following reprint of "The Provincial Acts Validation Act 1867" so far as it relates to the Province of Wellington is issued for general information.

W. HICKSON,
Provincial Secretary.

NEW ZEALAND.

ANNO TRICESIMO PRIMO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.
No. 79.

An Act to Validate certain Provincial Acts and Ordinances also to give the force of Law to certain Bills passed by Provincial Legislatures and disallowed by the Governor.

[10th October, 1867.]

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament Preamble.
assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows: that is to say—

1. The Short Title of this Act shall be The Provincial Acts Validation Act 1867. Short Title.

2. All the Acts or Ordinances or such parts thereof as are mentioned in the first Schedule hereto shall be deemed to have been from the date of the assent of the mentioned in schedule Governor or officer administering the Government of the Colony or of the assent of the to be deemed legal Superintendent of any Province on behalf of the Governor as the case may be legal and valid and all things done in pursuance of any such Acts or Ordinances shall be deemed to have been as legally done and as valid as if done after the passing of this Act. Provided however that any moneys which have before the passing of this Act been paid or recovered or shall hereafter be paid or recovered for or on account of a certain rate made or pretended to be made under "The Picton Improvement Act 1861" and which rate the Court of Appeal in a suit Bagge versus Sinclair declared invalid shall be retained by the Board of Works and deemed to be a payment on account of any rate to be hereafter made under the said Act on the property in respect of which such money shall have been paid: Provided also that nothing in this Act shall affect the rights or liabilities of the parties to the suit Bagge versus Sinclair as the same were determined in and by the judgment of the Court of Appeal in the said suit.

3. The provisions contained in the several clauses of the Bill of the Provincial Council Legalizing Highways Act (Wellington) set forth in the third Schedule hereto intituled "An Act to Amend and Consolidate the Laws relating to District Highways" shall be deemed to have the force of law as if such provisions had been incorporated in an Act of the General Assembly of this present session and shall take effect accordingly and such provisions shall be read and construed as if the words "General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled and by the authority thereof" were substituted in lieu of the words "Superintendent of the Province of Wellington with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof" where they occur immediately after the words "enacted by the."

4. The provisions contained in the Bill of the Provincial Council of the Province of Legalizing Fencing Wellington passed in the last session thereof and of which a copy is set forth in the Act (Wellington), second Schedule hereto intituled "An Act to Consolidate and Amend the Laws relating to Fencing within the Province" shall be deemed to have the force of law as if such provisions had been incorporated in an Act of the General Assembly of this present session and shall take effect accordingly and such provisions shall be read and construed as if the words "General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same" were substituted in lieu of the words "Superintendent of the Province of Wellington with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof" where they occur immediately after the words "enacted by the."

Force of law given to certain Bills of the Provincial Council of Otago.

Force of law given to certain Bills of the Provincial Council of Marlborough.

Force of law given to a certain Bill of Province of Hawke’s Bay.

5. This Act shall continue in force until the end of the next session of the General Assembly and no longer.