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The New Zealand Constitution Act [1852]: together with correspondence between the Secretary of State for the colonies and the Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand in explanation thereof

Analysis

Analysis.

Preamble.

Sec. I.—General Assembly.

1.Number of Members to be elected.

Analysis.

2.Number of Electoral Districts.
3.Number of Members of the House of Representatives.

Sec. II.—Superintendents and Provincial Councils.

Province of Auckland.
4.Number of Members of Provincial Council.
5.Number of Electoral Districts.
6.Number of Members of Provincial Council for each District.
Province of New Plymouth.
7.Number of Members of Provincial Council.
8.Number of Electoral Districts.
9.Number of Members of Provincial Council for each District.
Province of Wellington.
10.Number of Members of Provincial Council.
11.Number of Electoral Districts.
12.Number of Members of Provincial Council for each District.
Province of Nelson.
13.Number of Members of Provincial Council.
14.Number of Electoral Districts.
15.Number of Members of Provincial Council for each District.
Province of Canterbury.
16.Number of Members of Provincial Council.
17.Number of Electoral Districts.
18.Number of Members of Provincial Council for each District.
Province of Otago.
19.Number of Members of Provincial Council.
20.Number of Electoral Districts.
21.Number of Members of Provincial Council for each District.
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Sec. III.—General Regulations.

22.Qualification of Voters.
23.Claim to be preferred.
24.Form, &c., of Claim.
25.When to be preferred.
26.When to be preferred for certain Districts.
27.List of Claims to be prepared.
28.And to be published.
29.Justices to prepare Electoral Roll.
30.Objections to Claims.
31.Electoral Roil how to be formed.
32.Proof of Qualification in what case required,
33.The Electoral Roll how long in force.
34.Copy of Electoral Roll to be published.
35.Polling Places.
36.Additional Polling Places.
37.Returning Officers.
38.Writs for Elections.
39.Issue of Writs for supplying vacancies in Provincial Councils.
40.Days for Nomination and Election how fixed.
41.Returning Officer to preside at Nomination.
42.In case of a Contest.
43.In case a Poll be demanded.
44.The Polling.
45.Mode of Voting.
46.What enquiry may be made.
47.State of the Poll in certain cases to be declared.
48.Names of Persons elected as Members of the House of Representatives or of a Provincial Council to be inserted in Writ.
49.State of the Poll in certain cases to be declared.
50.State of the Poll in each District to be inserted in Writ at Election for Superintendent.
51.Voting Papers to be preserved.
52.New Writ in certain cases.
53.Objection to validity of Return of Superintendents.
54.Objection to validity of Return of Members of the House of Representatives.
55.Objection to Validity of Return of Members ofProvincial Council.
56.Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, and Dunedin, to be deemed Capital Towns for purposes of Proclamation.
57.Proclamation to take effect from date.
Schedules.
Plans.
Whereas, by an Act of the Session of the Imperial Parliament

Preamble reciting 15 & 16 Vic. Reg., cap. lxxii., "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Islands of New Zealand."— [30th June, 1852.].

holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, chap, seventy-two, it is amongst other things enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Governor of New Zealand, by Proclamation, to constitute within each of the said Provinces, by the above in part recited Act established, convenient Electoral Districts for the Election of the Superintendent—of Members of the Provincial Council—and of the House of Representatives of New Zealand—and to make provision for the Registration and Revision of Lists of page 96 all Persons qualified to vote at the Elections to be holden within such Districts—and for the appointing of Returning Officers—and for issuing, executing, and returning the necessary writs for such Elections—and for taking the Poll thereat—and for determining the validity of all disputed Returns—and otherwise for ensuring the orderly, effective, and impartial conduct of such Elections:

And whereas, by the said recited Act, power is given to the Governor, by Proclamation, to declare certain places to be Towns for the purposes of the said Act:

Now therefore, I, the Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand, in pursuance and by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the said in part recited Act, and under and by virtue of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, do hereby Proclaim, Declare, Direct, and Appoint, as follows:—