"An ORDINANCE to alter and amend the Duties of Customs."

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 552, 30 July 1851, Page 4

" An ORDINANCE to alter and amend the Duties of Customs."

Whereas, by an Ordinance Enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand with the j advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, Session 7, No. 11, intituled an *' Ordinance to alter certain Duties of Customs," provision is made for imposing Duties j of Customs on Goods, Wares, and Merchandise j imported into and landed in the Colony of New Zealand: And Whereas it is expedient that the Scale of Duties to be imposed ou the importation of Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, be amended as follows: 1. Be it therefore enacted by the Govemor-in-Chiefof New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, that the said recited Ordinance shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed. "2. In lieu of the said Duties, there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid unto Her Majesty, Her Heirs, and Successors, for the puhlic uses of the Colony, upon Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, which shall be imported into the Colony of New Zealand, and landed at any Port or Place therein, or cleared from any warehouse for Home Consumption, after this Ordinance shall come into operation, the several Duties of Customs as the same are respectively inserted, described, and set forth in figures in the Table to this Ordinance annexed, denominated a Table of Duties of Customs. 3. The Duties hereby imposed shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid, in like monncr as if the said Duties had been imposed by the Ordinance Session 1, No. 3, to provide foi the Collection of Duties of Customs imposed on Goods imported into, and for the general regulation of the Revenue of Customs in the Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies. And subject also to all such provisions and regulations as may for the time being be in force, under or by virtue of any Colonial Ordinance for the collection of and for the general regulation of the Revenue of Customs in the Colony of New Zealand. 4. This Ordinance shall come into operalion at the Port of Wellington on the day next following the passing thereof. And at every other Port of Entry within the Colony on the day next following the receipt of a copy hereof by the Principal Officer of Customs at any such Port, who is hereby required immediately upon the receipt hereof to give Public Notice of the same: and at all other places throughout the Colony on the sixth day of August next. G. GREY, GoVERNOR-IN-CniEF, Passed the Legislative Council, this Third day of July, in tho year of our Lord O»o Thousand Eight Hundred find Fifty-one. Henry Shapto Harrison, Clerk of Council.