Imprisonment for Debt Ordinance Amendment Act 1861
Imprisonment for Debt Ordinance Amendment Act 1861
Imprisonment for Debt Ordinance Amendment Act 1861
Imprisonment for Debt Ordinance Amendment Act 1861
Public Act |
1861 No 8 |
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Date of assent |
15 August 1861 |
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An Act to amend the Ordinance of the late Legislative Council intituled “An Ordinance for the relief of persons imprisoned for Debt.”
Preamble.
Whereas by an Ordinance of the late Legislative Council of New Zealand Sess. III No. 7 it is enacted that it shall be lawful for any person who shall have been taken in execution under process of the Supreme Court for any debt or sum of money and who shall have remained in prison for two calendar months or upwards to apply by Petition to a Judge of the Supreme Court for discharge from custody according to the provisions of the said Ordinance And it was also enacted that every prisoner who should have filed such Petition as aforesaid 28 days at least before any day appointed for the hearing of applications for relief under the said Ordinance should be brought up on such day accordingly And whereas it is expedient that such Ordinance should be amended;
Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows:
I Short Title.
The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Imprisonment for Debt Ordinance Amendment Act 1861.”
II Prisoner may apply to Supreme Court for discharge.
Any person who shall have been taken in Execution under process of the Supreme Court for any sum of money may at any time after having been so taken in execution as aforesaid apply by Petition to a Judge of the said Court for discharge from custody according to the provisions of the above mentioned Ordinance anything therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.