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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 29

Licensing Ordinance 1865 Amendment Ordinance 1866

Licensing Ordinance 1865 Amendment Ordinance 1866.

Title.

An Ordinance to amend an Ordinance intituled the "Licensing Ordinance 1865."

[27th November, 1866.]

Preamble.

Whereas it is expedient to amend the "Licensing Ordinance 1865" in certain particulars :

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

Short Title.

1. This Ordinance shall be termed and may be cited and referred to as the "Licensing Ordinance 1865 Amendment Ordinance 1866."

Sections 28 and 56 of "Licensing Ordinance 1865" repealed.

2. The second eighth and fifty-sixth sections of the "Licensing Ordinance 1865" shall be and the same are hereby repealed.

Ordinance to extend to Gold Fields.

3. The said Ordinance shall apply and the provisions thereof except as affected by this Ordinance are hereby extended to the whole of the Province of Otago.

Superintendent may grant licenses within limits of any Gold Field.

4. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent with the advice and consent of the Executive Council to authorise the Provincial Treasurer to issue Licenses of the several kinds and designations specified in the said recited Ordinance to persons resident within the limits of any Gold Field in the Province of Otago and such Licenses shall be as nearly as may be in the several forms in the Schedule to the said recited Ordinance and shall authorise the holder thereof to do the several acts and things which page 32 the holder of a License of a similar kind or designation issued under the authority of the said recited Ordinance would authorise the holder thereof to do or perform and the fees payable for any such License issued under the authority of this Ordinance shall be the same as would be payable for a License of a similar kind issued under the said recited Ordinance or such lesser sum as the Superintendent may determine.

Such Licenses not to extend beyond 31st December 1867.

5. No License shall be issued under the authority of this Ordinance after the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven and every such License shall if no earlier term be therein specified for the termination thereof expire on the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

All Licenses except the "Temporary" shall be in force for one year.

6. All certificates authorising the issue of any License which shall or may be granted at any Quarterly Licensing Meeting held under the authority of the said recited Ordinance in the month of December in any year shall entitle the holder thereof to the License mentioned in such certificate and such License shall be dated on the first day of January next ensuing to the granting of such certificate or if the first day of January fall upon a Sunday then on the second day of January and all Licenses issued at any other time of the year shall be dated on the first day of the month next following that in which the certificate authorizing the issue of such License shall have been granted or if the first day of such month be a Sunday then on the second day of the same month and all such Licenses whensoever issued shall have effect on and after the date thereof respectively and shall remain in force until the first day of January then next following unless forfeited in the meantime under the provisions of the said recited Ordinance and the fees payable for such Licenses shall be as follows (that is to say)—
  • For all Licenses dated on the first or second day of January in any year the full amount of the License fees respectively mentioned in the seventh section of the said recited Ordinance.
  • For all Licenses dated on the first or second day of April in any year three-fourths of the License fees respectively mentioned in the said seventh section of the said Ordinance.
  • For all Licenses dated on the first or second day of July in any year one-half of the License fees respectively mentioned in the said seventh section of the said Ordinance.
  • For all Licenses dated on the first or second day of October in any year one-fourth part of the License fees respectively mentioned in the said seventh section of the said Ordinance.

Superintendent may extend time during which certificates of Justices remain in force.

7. Notwithstanding anything in the nineteenth section of the said recited Ordinance to the contrary it shall be lawful for the Superintendent at any time within thirty days after the expiration of the period of twenty-one days in the said nineteenth section mentioned to authorise the Provincial Treasurer to issue a License in the terms of such certificate upon payment being made by the hoider of such certificate to the Provin- page 33 cial Treasurer of a fee of two pounds in addition to the proper fee for such License.

Transfer Fee.

8. A fee of one pound shall be paid to the Provincial Treasurer for each and every transfer of any License issued under the authority of the said recited Ordinance.

Interpretation.

9. The word "Liquor" wherever used in the said recited Ordinance shall mean spirituous liquor as well as the meaning applied to the word liquor by the fifty-ninth section of the said recited Ordinance.

Ordinance incorporated with "Licensing Ordinance 1865."

10. This Ordinance shall be taken read and interpreted as part of and incorporated with the "Licensing Ordinance 1865."

Dunedin, New Zealand :

Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by Mills, Dick and Co., Stafford street. Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.