ORDINANCES PASSED AT THE LAST SITTING OF THE GENERAL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF NEW ZEALAND.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 721, 12 March 1853, Page 4

ORDINANCES PASSED AT THE LAST SITTING OF THE GENERAL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF NEW ZEALAND.

APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE. Passed the 20tii day of December 1852. '‘ AN ORDINANCE to Appropriate the Revenue of the Islands af New Zealand, from the first dag of January 1853." Preamble . Whereas by an Ordinance enacted by the Governor—in-Chief ot flic Islands of New Zealand with the advice and consent of the General Legislative Council thereof, Session XI, No. 12, enTifilled “ An Ordinance to Appropriate the Revenue of (he Provinces of New Ulster and New Munster for the year 185-1,” provision was made for defraying the Charge of the Government of the Provinces of New Ulster and New Munsfer for the years 1851 and 1852 : Be it marled, hy the Governor-in-Chief of tbe New Zealand Islands, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows . Appropriation of the Revenue of 1851 and 1852 to be an Appropriation for nine months. 1 That such Appropriation of the Revenue oflhe said Provinces of New Ulster and New OrdVuonVfofTfie'yiears'*iV‘a deemed and taken to apply to the Appropriation of such Revenue, or (hat of the districts at present comprised within the said Provinces, for the portion of the year 1853, commencing on the first of January 1853, and ending on the 30th day of September, 1853, unless the Appropriation of the said Revenue, or any part thereof, shall in the meantime be otherwise lawfully provided for. Any Portion of Revenue not otherwise lawfully provided for, to be disbursed as before. 2. That, in case of the Appropriation of any part of the said Revenue not being otherwise lawfully provided for, the Colonial Treasurer of New Ulster and the Colonial Treasurer of New Munster, or such other officer as may be Bppointed hy the Governor in that behalf within the respective districts now comprised in the said Provinces, may issue from lime to time any sum or sums of money for the purposes mentioned in the said Appropriation Ordinance for the years 1851 and 1852, not exceeding in the whole the sums respectively specified, to such persons, and in such proportions, as (he Governors or other officers administering the Government for the time being of the said Provinces of New Ulster and New Munsfer, or such districts as aforesaid respectively shall, hy any order in writing signed by them, from time to time direct; and such Treasurer, or other officers as aforesaid, shall, in their accounts, he allowed credit for all sums paid hy them in pursuance of such orders, and the receipts of the persons to whom such sums shall have been paid, shall be to them a full discharge of the sum or sums for which such receipts shall have been given, and the amounts thereof shall he passed to their credit in account accordingly. G. Grey, Governor-in-Chief. Passed the Legislative Council tins 291h day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. 11. S. Harrison, Clerk of Council. LAND REGISTRATION AMENDMENT AND EXTEMSION ORDI NANCE• Passed the 2 ( J(h day of December, 1852. “ AN ORDINANCE to Amend the Land Registration -Ordinance, and to extend the operation of/he same to the Canterbury Settlement”' Preamble. WHEREAS, by an Ordinance enacted by the Governor and Legislative Council of New Zealand, Session 11, No. 9, cntituled, “An Ordinance to provide for the Registration of Deeds and Instruments affecting Real Property,” it is provided that there shall be deposited in the Register Office of every County or District maps of all lands which shall from lime to time he surveyed within the limits thereof, which maps shall be signed by the Surveyor-General ol the Colony, and by the Registrar ; Re it enacted, by (he Governor-in-Chief of the Islands of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council (hereof, as follows : Signature of any person duly authorised as effectual as that of Surveyor-General. 1. The signature of any person duly authorised in that behalf by His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief, affixed to maps for the purposes of the in pari recited Ordinance, or of this Ordinance, shall be of the same farce and effect, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, as (he signature of the Surveyor-General required lobe fixed to maps by the said in part recited Ordinance ; Maps and Plans to be registered with Deeds. 2. And whereas doubts have arisen in the construction of the said recited Ordinance, Sess. 11, No. 9, as to (he necessity of registering maps or plans delineated upon Instruments, to he registered under (he said Ordinance; Re it enacted „ That such maps or plans shall in all cases be registered in the same manner as, and together with, the Instrument itself. Extension of Ordinance to Canterbury Settlement. 3. And whereas the operation of the said in part recited Ordinance is confinedTo the Registration of Grants by the Crown of land within the Colony, and of deeds, contracts, wills, judgments, suits, acceptances of office, inquisitions, bankruptcies, insolvencies, and private Ordinances, so far as regards any land to he affected (hereby, subsequently to the dale of such Grants ; And tvhereas it is expedient to extend the operation oftiic said ordinance to lands within the Canterbury Settlement; Be it enacted , That every conveyance of land within the Canterbury Settlement, made or to be made by the Canterbury Association, incorporated hy Her Majesty’s Royal Charier, hearing date at Westminster the 13lh day of November, in the thirteenth year of Her reign, hy the name and style of “ The Canterbury Association for Founding a Settlement in New Zealand,” now called “The Canterbury Settlement,” and every deed or contract, except as excepted, in the abovenamed Ordinance, and every will, judgment, suit, acceptance of office, inquisition, bankruptcy, insolvency, or private Ordinance, whereby such land may he affected subsequently to the dale of such conveyance, may he registered in like manner as a Grant by (he Crown of land within (he Colony, deed or contract, will, judgment, suit, acceptance of office, inquisition, bankruptcy, insolvency, or private Ordinance, may be registered, and such registration shall have the like force and effect to all intents and purposes whatsoever ; and all the regulations and provisions contained herein or in the said recited Ordinance shall apply to the Same;

Limitation of effect of Registration. A. Provided, That nothing herein, or in the said in part recited Ordinance, shall be construed (o confer any advantage on deeds, contracts, or wills, registered by virtue of this Ordinance, by reason of their having been registered before other deeds, contracts, or wills previously executed, until after the first day of January, 1854 ; Commencement. 5. That this Ordinance shall come into operation from and after the passing hereof. G. Gkey, Governor-in-Chief. Passed The Legislative Council (his ,29th day December in (he year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. 11. S. Harrison, Clerk of Council. BANK CHARTERS AMENDMENT ORDINANCE. Passed the 3rd day or January 1853. “ an ORDINANCE to amend the hank Charters Ordinance , No 15, Session XL” Preamble. Whereas it is expedient to amend (he fifth regulation contained in Uiejhidl_ clause < of an OrNew Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, Session XI, No. 13, intituled •“ An Ordinance to authorize the Governor-in-Chief to grant Charters of incorporation to Banking Companies." Fifth Regulation in the "2nd danse repealed, and another Regulation substituted in its place. 1. Re it enacted , by the Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows : The tilth regulation contained in the second clause of the above in part recited Ordinance is hereby repealed, and the following regulation is substituted for the same :—• Suspension of payments on demand at any of the Company’s establishments for such period or periods as may be prescribed in tbe Charter shall forfeit the Charter of the Company. Commencement. 2. This Ordinance shall come into operation from and after (he day of the passing hereof. G. Grey, Governor-in- Chief. Passed the Legislative Council this 3rd day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. 11. S. Harrison, Clerk of Council. SUPREME COURT PRACTITIONERS ORDINANCE. Passed the 4xn day of January, 1855. 1,1 AN ORDINANCE to provide for the adrnis sion of Barristers, Attornies, and Proctors, to practice in the Supreme Court, other than those admissible under the Supreme Court Ordinance , Session 111, No. 1.” Preamble. Whereas by an Ordinance enacted by the Governor of New Zealand -with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof Session 111, No. 1, and inlitlcd “ An Ordinance for establishing a Supreme Court,” it is provided that no person hut Barristers or Advocates in Great Britain or Ireland, or Solicitors, Attornies, or Writers in any of the. Courts of Westminster, Dublin, or Edinburgh, or Proctors in any Ecclesiastical Court in England, or who shall have served such term of clerkship with a Solicitor of the Court, as is required hy the general rules thereof, or shall have established themselves in the exercise of (heir profession, on or before the 22nd day of December, 1841, shall he enrolled in the Court to practise therein, and Whereas, it is expedient to extend such enrolment to all persons qualified to practice as Barristers, Attornies, or Proctors, in the neighbouring Colonies of Australia and Van Diemen's Land ; and to all persons in Great Britain or Ireland as well as in Australia and Van Diemen’s Land, and New Zealand ; who have served any portion of the term required hy law to qualify them to practise as Attornies, in those places; on completion of the residue of such term in New Zealand. All persons having been admitted as Barristers, Attornies, ifc. in the neighbouring Colonies mag be enrolled. 1. Re it enacted , hy the Governor-in-Chief of the New Zealand Islands with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, that all such persons as shall have been admitted as Banisters, Solicitors, Attornies, or Proctors in any Court in Australia or Van Diemen’s Land ; and all such persons as shall have served any portion of (he term of clerkship required by law to qualify (horn to practise as Solicitors or Attorneys iu Great Britain or Ireland ; or in any part of Australia or Van Diemen’s Land or New Zealand; and shall have completed such term according to the rules of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, in (hat behalf, may he enrolled to practice in the said Court; upon making and signing such declaration of such previous admission, or of such completed service, and on affording such proof thereof as the case shall require, or as may be required hy any rules hereafter to he made relative thereto; and such enrolment shall have (he same force and effect to all intents and purposes within the Jurisdiction of the said Supreme Court, as the enrolment of persons who had been admitted to practise as Barristers in Great Britain or Ireland, or admitted as Solicitors or Attornies in any of the Courts at Westminster, Dublin, or Edinburgh. Commencement. 2. That (his Ordinance shall come into operation from and after the day of the passing hereof. G. Grey, Governor-in-Chief. Passed the Legislative Council (his 4lh day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. H. S. Harrison, Clerk of Council.