✨ Delegation of Powers
THE COUNTY OF
WESTLAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
HOKITIKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1873.
[Extracted from the New Zealand Gazette, No. 6, of the 30th January, 1873.]
Delegation of certain of the Governor’s Powers under "Gold Fields Act, 1866," to County Chairman of Westland.
G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
WHEREAS by "The Gold Fields Act, 1866," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, under his hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, from time to time to delegate to the Superintendent of any Province, or such other person as the Governor may deem fit, all or any of the powers vested in the Governor or the Governor in Council by the Act aforesaid, except the powers conferred by sections twenty-two, forty, forty-eight, sixty, ninety-six, and one hundred and seven of the said Act, subject or not to any limitations or restrictions as he may think fit, and in like manner to alter or revoke any such powers; And whereas by "The Gold Fields Act Amendment Act, 1869," certain alterations in the said first recited Act were made, and certain additional powers were given to the Governor and to the Governor in Council, and it was by the said Act now in recital enacted that the said "Gold Fields Act Amendment Act, 1869," should be read and construed in connection with and as part of said "Gold Field Act, 1866." And whereas by "The County of Westland Act, 1868," it is enacted that in any Act of the General Assembly (except certain Acts, not including the Gold Field Acts) the word "Province" shall include County of Westland, and the word "Superintendent" shall include, with regard to such County, any person whom the Governor may from time to time appoint to perform within such County those duties, and exercise those powers, under any such Act which might, if such duties or powers had to be performed or exercised within a Province, be exercised or performed by the Superintendent of such Province: And whereas, by certain Orders in Council bearing date the twenty-seventh day of January, in the year of our Lord 1871, His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, did delegate to Henry Hermann Lahman, Esq., certain powers in him vested under the Gold Fields Acts:
Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority vested in me as aforesaid, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony, do hereby revoke the delegation of powers to Henry Hermann Lahman, Esq., made in and by the said Orders in Council of the twenty-seventh day of January, 1871, and, with the
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