The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 29
Constitution Act Amendment
Constitution Act Amendment.
15 & 16 Vict, c. 72.
Whereas
it is expedient that an Act passed in the Session holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of Her Majesty, chapter seventy-two, to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand, should be amended by repealing certain clauses thereof, whereby certain charges were imposed on the Territorial Revenue of the said Colony, for which charges other provision has been or is intended to be made, and2 The Short Title by which this Act is cited in New Zealand is "The Constitution Amendment Act." See the Interpretation Acts 1858 and 1868.
Be It Enacted
by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:Sections 67, 63, 69, and 74, and part of sec. 62 of recited Act repealed.
Power to General Assembly of New Zealand to vary the provisions of the recited Act, with the exception herein named.
So much of the said Act as repeals former Acts, Letters Patent, Instructions, and Orders in Council:
The provisions contained in sections three, eighteen (save the exception therein contained), twenty- five, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty-two, forty-four, forty-six, forty-seven, fifty-three, fifty-four, fifty-six, fifty-seven, fifty-eight, fifty-nine, sixty-one, sixty-four (save so much as charges the Civil List on the revenues arising from the disposal of waste lands of the Crown), sixty-five, seventy-one, seventy-three, and eighty of the said Act:
1 As to the power of Colonial Legislatures generally to alter their constitution, see the Imperial Act 28 and 29 Vict. c. 63, s. 5, post. Power to alter the third section of the Constitution Act was given by the Imperial Act 24 and 25 Vict. c. 30, s. 2, post; but that Act was repealed before the power was exercised. (See, post, the Imperial Act 25 and 26 Vict. c. 48.) Sect. 73 of the Constitution Act may be altered or repealed by the General Assembly (25 and 26 Vict. e. 48, s. 8).
Commencement of Act.
1 This Act was proclaimed on 15th December, 1857. See Gazette 1857, No. 34, page 195.
2 This is "The New Zealand Company's Claims Act, 1857."