V.  Australien.  1417  259.  New  Zealand.

of  the  United  Kingdom,  to  erect  into  a  separate  Colony  or  Colonies  any  Islands  which
then  were  or  which  thereafter  might  be  comprised  within  and  be  Dependenceies  of  the
Colony  of  New  South  Wales:  And  whereas,  in  pursuance  of  the  Powers  in  Her  vested
by  the  said  Act,  Her  Majesty  did,  by  certain  Letters  Patent  under  the  Great  Seal
of  the  United  Kingdom,  bearing  Date  the  Sixteenth  Day  of  November  in  the  Fourth
Year  of  Her  Reign,  erect  into  a  separate  Colony  the  Islands  of  New  Zealand,  theretofore
  comprised  within  or  Dependencies  of  the  Colony  of  New  South  Wales,  bounded
as  therein  described,  and  the  said  Islands  of  New  Zealand  were  thereby  erected  into
a  separate  Colony  accordingly;  and  Her  Majesty  did  by  the  said  Letters  Patent
authorize  the  Governor  for  the  Time  being  of  the  said  Colony  of  New  Zealand  and
certain  other  Persons  to  be  a  Legislative  Council  for  such  Colony,  and  to  make  Laws
for  the  Peace,  Order,  and  good  Government  thereof:  And  whereas  by  an  Act  of  the
Session  holden  in  the  Ninth  and  Tenth  Years  of  Her  Majesty,  Chapter  One  hundred
and  three,  the  Act  firstly  herein  recited,  and  all  Charters,  Letters  Patent,  Instructions,
  and  Orders  in  Council  made  and  issued  in  pursuance  thereof,  were  repealed,
abrogated,  and  annulled,  so  far  as  the  same  were  repugnant  to  the  Act  now  in  recital,
or  any  Letters  Patent,  Charters,  Orders  in  Council,  or  Royal  Instructions  to  be  issued
under  the  Authority  thereof;  and  by  the  Act  now  in  recital  certain  Powers  for  the
Government  of  the  said  Islands  were  vested  in  Her  Majesty,  to  be  executed  by
Letters  Patent  under  the  Great  Seal  of  the  United  Kingdom,  or  by  Instructions
under  Her  Majesty’s  Signet  and  Sign  Manual,  approved  in  Her  Privy  Council,  and
accompanying  or  referred  to  in  such  Letters  Patent:  And  whereas,  in  pursuance
of  the  said  last-mentioned  Act,  Her  Majesty  did,  by  Letters  Patent  bearing  Date
at  Westminster  the  Twenty-third  Day  of  December  in  the  Tenth  Year  of  Her  Reign,
and  by  certain  Instructions  made  and  approved  as  required  by  such  Act,  and  bearing
even  Date  with  and  accompanying  the  said  Letters  Patent,  execute  certain  of  the
Powers  by  such  Act  vested  in  Her  Majesty  for  the  better  Government  of  the  said
Islands:  And  whereas  by  an  Act  of  the  Session  holden  in  the  Eleventh  and  Twelfth
Years  of  Her  Majesty,  Chapter  Five,  so  much  of  the  said  Act  secondly  herein  recited,
and  the  said  Letters  Patent  and  Instructions  issued  in  pursuance  thereof,  as  relates
to  the  Constitution  and  Establishment  of  Two  or  more  separate  Assemblies  within
the  said  Islands,  and  of  a  General  Assembly  in  and  for  the  said  Islands,  was  suspended
for  Five  Years,  unless  Her  Majesty,  with  the  Advice  of  Her  Privy  Council,  should
direct  the  same  to  be  carried  into  effect  before  the  Expiration  of  that  Period;  and
by  the  Act  now  in  recital  the  said  firstly-recited  Act,  Letters  Patent,  and  Instructions
were  revived  for  the  Time  during  which  the  said  secondly-recited  Act,  Letters  Patent,
and  Instructions  were  suspended  as  aforesaid;  and  by  the  Act  now  in  recital  certain
Powers  were  vested  respectively  in  the  Governor-in-Chief  of  the  said  Islands  and
in  such  Governor  and  the  Legislative  Council  thereof:  And  whereas  it  is  expedient
that  further  and  better  Provision  should  be  made  for  the  Government  of  New  Zealand:
  Be  it  therefore  enacted  by  the  Queen’s  most  Excellent  Majesty,  by  and  with
the  Advice  and  Consent  of  the  Lords  Spiritual  and  Temporal,  and  Commons,  in
this  present  Parliamant  assembled,  and  by  the  Authority  of  the  same,  as  follows:

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