Preamble.

Whereas it is expedient to repeal the Ordinances of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the late Province of Southland specified in the First Schedule hereto and to extend to that part of the Province of Otago which before the coining into operation of the "Otago and Southland Union Act 1870" was included in the Province of Southland the provisions of the Ordinances of the Province of Otago specified in the Second Schedule hereto :

Be it Therefore Enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Otago by and with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof as follows :—