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and all such Drafts shall be taken into consideration in such convenient Manner as
shall in and by the Rules und Orders aforesaid be in that Behalf provided.
LVI. Whenever any Bill which has been passed by the said Legislative Councı
and House of Representatives shall be presented for Her Majesty’s Assent to the
Governor, he shall declare according to his Discretion, but subject nevertheless to
the Provisions contained in this Act and to such Instructions as may from Time to
Time be given in that Behalf by Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors, that he assents
to such Bill in Her Majesty’s Name, or that he refuses his Assent to such Bill, or that
he reserves such Bill for the Signification of Her Majesty’s Pleasure thereon; provided
always, that it shall and may be lawful for the Governor, before declaring his
Pleasure in regard to any Bill so presented to hin, to make such Amendments in
such Bill as he thinks needful or expedient, and by Message to return such Bill with
such Amendments to the Legislative Council or the House of Representatives as
he shall think the more fitting, and the Consideration of such Amendments by the
said Council and House respectively shall take place in such convenient Manner as
shall in and by the Rules and Orders aforesaid be in that Behalf provided. _
LVII. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, with the Advice of Her Privy Council,
or under Her Majesty’s Signet and Sign Manual, or through One of Her Principal
Secretaries of State, from Time to Time to convey the Governor of New Zealand
such Instructions as to Her Majesty shall seem meet, for the Guidance of such
Governor, for the Exercise of the Powers hereby vested in him of assenting to or
dissenting from or for reserving for the Signification of Her Majesty’s Pleasure Bills
to be passed by the said Legislative Council and House of Representatives; and it
shall be the Duty of such Governor to act in obedience to such Instructions.
LVIII. Whenever any Bill which shall have been presented for Her Majesty’s
Assent to the Governor shall by such Governor have been assented to in Her
Majesty’s Name, he shall by the first convenient Opportunity transmit to One
of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State an authentic Copy of such Bill so
assented to; and it shall be lawful, at any Time within Two Years after such Bill
shall have been received by the Secretary of State, for Her Majesty, by Order in
Council, to declare Her Disallowance of such Bill; and such .Dissallowance, together
with a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the Secretary of State certifying the
Day on which such Bill was received as aforesaid, being signified by the Governor
to the said Legislative Council and House of Representatives by Speech or Message
or by Proclamation in the Government Gazette, shall make void and annul the
same from and after the Day of such Signification.
LIX. No Bill which shall be reserved for the Signification of Her Majesty’s
Pleasure thereon shall have any Force or Authority within New Zealand until the
Governor shall signify, either by Speech or Message to the said Legislative Council
and House of Representatives, or by Proclamation, that such Bill has been laid
before Her Majesty in Council, and that Her Majesty has been pleased to
asscnt to the same; and an Entry shall be made in the Journals of the said
Legislative ‚Council and House of Representatives of every such Speech,
