Coroners' Act Amendment Act 1864
Coroners' Act Amendment Act 1864
Coroners’ Act Amendment Act 1864
Public Act |
1864 No 6 |
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Date of assent |
13 December 1864 |
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Contents
An Act to Amend the Coroners’ Act 1858.
Preamble.
WHEREAS by the Coroners’ Act 1858 it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty from time to time by warrant under his hand to appoint fit persons to be Coroners of the several districts of the Colony and from time to time to define the districts within which the Coroners shall respectively have jurisdiction and any such definition to revoke or annul and the limits of such districts to alter as occasion may require.
And whereas many districts have been defined under the said Act and it has been found in practice that the objects of the said Act would be more conveniently and efficiently carried out if each Coroner were appointed to and had jurisdiction throughout the Colony.
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 Coroners’ Act Amendment Act 1864.”
II Coroners to have jurisdiction in the Colony.
All Coroners to be appointed by the Governor shall have jurisdiction throughout the Colony.
III Coroners heretofore appointed to have jurisdiction within a Province legally appointed.
All Coroners heretofore appointed to have jurisdiction within a Province notwithstanding that more than one Coroner may have been so appointed to a Province shall be deemed to have been legally appointed from the date of his warrant as if it had been enacted in the recited Act that each Coroner should have jurisdiction within a Province instead of within a District to be defined.
IV Jurisdiction of Coroners already appointed extended.
All Coroners heretofore appointed whether to Provinces or parts of Provinces shall henceforth have jurisdiction by virtue of this Act throughout the Colony.