Gold Mining Districts Act 1873 Amendment Act 1877
Gold Mining Districts Act 1873 Amendment Act 1877
Gold Mining Districts Act 1873 Amendment Act 1877
Gold Mining Districts Act 1873 Amendment Act 1877
Public Act |
1877 No 24 |
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Date of assent |
29 November 1877 |
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An Act to amend “The Gold Mining Districts Act, 1873.”
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Short Title.
The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Gold Mining Districts Act 1873 Amendment Act, 1877.”
2 Interpretation.
The words “the said Act”
wherever used in this Act shall mean the said “Gold Mining Districts Act, 1873,”
and this Act shall be deemed and taken to be part of the said Act, and shall be read and construed therewith.
3 Clause 121 of said Act amended.
It shall not be necessary to pay the sum of ten pounds provided for by clause one hundred and twenty-one of the said Act in respect of machine sites taken up before the said Act came into force, nor upon assignments or transfers of any such machine sites, although the person or company to whom such assignments or transfers may be made may not have been the holder or holders of a miner’s right continuously from the time that such machine sites may have been taken up.