The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 12
I. Register Offices and Officers
I. Register Offices and Officers.
§ 1. It shall be lawful for the Governor, at any
time, by Proclamation in the
New Zealand Gazette, to divide the Colony of New Zealand for the purposes of this Act into such and so many districts as he shall think fit, and every such district shall he called by a distinct name and shall be a Registrar's District: Provided always that the Governor may at any time revoke the whole or any part of such Proclamation, and issue a new Proclamation dividing the colony or any portion of it anew into districts, or increasing the number or altering the boundaries of districts, as from time to time he may think requisite: Provided always that the districts already proclaimed under "The Marriage Act, 1854," shall be deemed to be districts constituted under this Act.
Districts to be proclaimed. 1858, Act No. 29, Sec. 2.
§ 2. It shall be lawful for the Governor, by
warrant under his hand, from time to time to appoint a fit person to be Registrar-General, and also fit persons to be Registrars of Marriages, who shall hold office during the Governor's pleasure: Provided always that the Registrar-General and Registrars of districts now acting shall be deemed to have been appointed under this Act.?
Registrar-General and Registrars to be appointed. Ibid, Sec 3.
Marriage Acts.
Governor may appoint Deputy Registrar-General
1878, Act So. 2: Sec. 3.
When Deputy to act. Ibid.
Governor may appoint Deputy Registrars. 1858, Act No.29, Sec. 4.
When Deputy to act.
Ibid, Sec. 6.
Marriage Acts.
§ 6. The said Registrars shall be and they are
hereby empowered to levy and receive the several fees authorized to be collected by them under and
by virtue of this Act, to be applied in manner hereinafter provided.
Registrars power to levy fees.
1851, Act No. 12, Sec. 4.
§7. No Registrar appointed under the provisions
of this Act shall be compellable to serve on any jury or inquest, or to fill any parochial or corporate office whatsoever.
Registrars not liable to serve on juries. Ibid, Sec. 5.