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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 713, 12 February 1853, Page 1 (Supplement)

Governor may to, refuse Assent, or reserve Bills. LVI. Whenever any Bill which has been passed by the said Legislative Council and House ot Representatives shall be presented for Her Majesty’s Assent to the Governor, he shall declare according to his discretion, but subject nevertheless to the Provisions contained in this Act and to such Instructions as may from Time to Time be given in that Behalf by Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors, .that he assents to such Bill in Her Majesty’s Name, or that he refuses his Assent to such Bill, or that he reserves such Bill for the Signification of Her Majesty’s Pleasure thereon ; provided always, that it shall and may be lawful for the Governor, before declaring his Pleasure in regard to any Bill so presented to him, to make such Amendments in such Bill as he thinks needful or expedient, and by Message to return such Bill with such Amendments to th.e Legislative Council or the House of Representatives as he shall think the more fitting, and the Consideration of such Amendments by the said Council and House respectively shall take place in such convenient Manner as shall in and by the Rules and Orders aforesaid be in that Behalf provided. Governor to conform to Instructions transmitted hy Her Majesty. LVI I. It shall he lawful for Her Majesty, with the Advice of Her Privy Council, or under Her Majesty’s Signet and Sign Manual, or or through One of her Principal Secretaries of State, from d ime to Time to convey to the Governor of New Zealand such Instructions as to Her Majesty shall seem meet, forlhe Guidance of such Governor, for the Exercise of the Powers hereby vested in him of assenting to or dissenting from or for reserving for the Signification of Her Majesty’s Pleasure, Bills to be passed by the said Legislative Council and House of Representatives; and it shall be the Duty of such Governor to act in obedience to such Instructions. As to Disallowance hy Her Majesty of Bills assented to hy the Governor. LVIII. Whenever any Bill which shal have been presented for Her Majesty’s Assent to the Governor shall by such Governor have been assented to in Her Majesty’s Name, he shal) by the first convenient Opportunity transmit to One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State an authentic Copy of such Bill so assented to; and it shall be lawful, at any Time within Two Years after such Bill shall have been received by the Secretary of State, for Her Majesty, by Order in Council, to declare Her Disallowance of such Bill ; and such Disal owance, together with a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the Secretary of State ceniiying the Day on which such Bill was received as aforesaid, being signified by the Governor to the said Legislative Gunnel 1 and House of Representatives by Speech or Message, or bv Proclamation in the GoO 7 vernment Gazette, sha 1 make void and annul the same from and after the Day of such Signification. No reserved Bill to have any Force until assented to hy Her M ajesty. LIX. No Bill which shall be reserved for the Signification of Her Majesty’s Pieasute thereon shall have any Force or Authority within New Zealand until the Governor shall signify, either by Speech or Message to the said Legislative Council and House of liepresentatives, or by Proclamation, that such Bill has been laid before her Majesty in Council, and that Her Majesty has been pleased to assent to the same; and an Entry shall he made in the Journals of the said Legislative Council and House of Representatives of every such Speech, Message, or Proclamation, and a Duplicate thereof, duly attested, shall be delivered to the Registrar of the Supreme Court, or other proper Officer, to be kept among the Records of New Zealand', and no Bill which shall he so reserved as aforesaid shall ha\e any Force or Authority within New Zealand, unh ss Her Majesty’s Assent thereto shall have, been so signified as aforesaid within the Space of Two Years from the Day on which such Bill shall have been presented for Her Majesty’s Assent to the Governor as aforesaid. Acts to he printed. LX. The Governor shall cause every Act of the said General Assembly which he shall have assented to in Her Majsely’s Name to lie printed in the Government Gazelle for general