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New Zealand Boundaries Act 1863

1863 CHAPTER 23

An Act to alter the Boundaries of New Zealand.

[8th June 1863]

WHEREAS by the Eightieth Section of an [15 & 16 Vict. c. 72.] Act of the Fifteenth Year of Her Majesty, Chapter Seventy-two, intituled An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand, it was provided, that for the Purposes of that Act the said Colony should be held to include the Territories therein mentioned: And whereas it is expedient to alter the Limits of the said Colony as declared by the said Act:

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 Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows :

1Part of Sect. 80 of 15 & 16 Vict. c. 72. repealed.

So much of the Eightieth Section of the aforesaid Act of Parliament as declares the Limits of the Colony of New Zealand for the Purposes of the said Act is repealed.

2What shall be deemed the Limits of the Colony.

The Colony of New Zealand shall for the Purposes of the said Act and for all other Purposes whatever be deemed to comprise all Territories, Islands, and Countries lying between the One hundred and sixty-second Degree of East Longitude and the One hundred and seventy-third Degree of West Longitude, and between the Thirty-third and Fifty-third Parallels of South Latitude.