Resident Magistrates' Courts Proceeding Validation Act 1885
Resident Magistrates' Courts Proceeding Validation Act 1885
Resident Magistrates' Courts Proceeding Validation Act 1885
Resident Magistrates’ Courts Proceeding Validation Act 1885
Public Act |
1885 No 24 |
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Date of assent |
14 September 1885 |
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Contents
An Act to Validate certain Proceedings in Resident Magistrates’ Courts.
Preamble.
WHEREAS Proclamations have from time to time been made declaring certain provisions of “The Resident Magistrates Act, 1867,”
having special reference to persons of the Native race, to be in force within certain districts in such Proclamations defined: And whereas these districts have from time to time been altered, and some of them have been abolished and reconstituted under different names and with altered boundaries by subsequent Proclamations without declaring therein that the sections last mentioned should be in force within the last-named districts as so altered or reconstituted: And whereas Resident Magistrates appointed to exercise the jurisdiction of the said sections within the districts as originally proclaimed have continued to exercise such jurisdiction within the said districts as subsequently altered or reconstituted, and it is expedient to declare such jurisdiction to have been validly exercised:
Be it therefore 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 is “The Resident Magistrates’ Courts Proceedings Validation Act, 1885.”
2 Validation of things done.
All provisions of “The Resident Magistrates Act, 1867,”
having special reference to persons of the Native race, which have at any time been declared by Proclamation to be in force in any district of the colony, as in such Proclamation mentioned, shall be deemed to have been in force continuously in such district, howsoever the original limits thereof may have been altered from time to time, or in any district or districts subsequently proclaimed in the place of any former district which may have been abolished and reconstituted.
And all jurisdiction of any Resident Magistrate validly exercisable in any such district as originally constituted shall be deemed to have been validly exercised by such Magistrate within such district however the limits thereof may have been altered, curtailed, or extended, or within any district or districts constituted in the place of any original district which may have been abolished and reconstituted.