NATIVE DISTRICT REGULATIONS 1858
Penalties for breach of Regulations
3. It shall be lawful by any such regulation to impose penalties, not exceeding fifty pounds, for the breach or non-observance of any such regulation.
Penalties may be enforced
4. Payment of all penalties imposed by or by virtue of under Summary Proceedings, any such regulation may be recovered and enforced by Ordinance Justices of the Peace specially authorized by the .
Government in that behalf in a summary way, either within or without the limits of the districts within w such penalties may have been incurred, in the mode prescribed 1w the laws for the time being in force for regulating summary proceedings before Justices of the Peace.
Preamble. WHEREAS it is expedient. In order to promote the civilization of the Native race, that the Government in council be enabled to make and put in force, within districts o which the Native title has not been extinguished, such regulations on matters of local concernment or relating to the social economy of the Native race as may appear adapted to the special wants of the inhabitants. all such regulations being made, as far as possible. With the general assent of the persons affected thereby:.
1852 Constitution AND WHEREAS it may he expedient that the laws, Section 71. customs, and usages of the aboriginal or native .
inhabitants of New Zealand, so far as they are not repugnant to the general principles of humanity, should for the present be maintained for the government of themselves, in all their relations to and dealings with each other, and that particular districts should be set apart within which such laws, customs. or usages should be so observed:.
Native Circuit Courts 1858 Section 2. Within every such district a Resident Magistrate to be present specially appointed for the purpose by the Government, assisted by at least one Native Assessor, shall hold periodically at convenient times and places a Court to be styled “Native Circuit Court” of such district.
Assessors Court Section 32. It shall be lawful for the Government to select certain Assessors to hold a Court, to be styled “The Assessors’ Court,” and such Assessors shall hold Assessors Courts within such districts appointed under this Act as the Governor may assign to them respectively for that purpose.
3. It shall be lawful by any such regulation to impose penalties, not exceeding fifty pounds, for the breach or non-observance of any such regulation.
Penalties may be enforced
4. Payment of all penalties imposed by or by virtue of under Summary Proceedings, any such regulation may be recovered and enforced by Ordinance Justices of the Peace specially authorized by the .
Government in that behalf in a summary way, either within or without the limits of the districts within w such penalties may have been incurred, in the mode prescribed 1w the laws for the time being in force for regulating summary proceedings before Justices of the Peace.
Preamble. WHEREAS it is expedient. In order to promote the civilization of the Native race, that the Government in council be enabled to make and put in force, within districts o which the Native title has not been extinguished, such regulations on matters of local concernment or relating to the social economy of the Native race as may appear adapted to the special wants of the inhabitants. all such regulations being made, as far as possible. With the general assent of the persons affected thereby:.
1852 Constitution AND WHEREAS it may he expedient that the laws, Section 71. customs, and usages of the aboriginal or native .
inhabitants of New Zealand, so far as they are not repugnant to the general principles of humanity, should for the present be maintained for the government of themselves, in all their relations to and dealings with each other, and that particular districts should be set apart within which such laws, customs. or usages should be so observed:.
Native Circuit Courts 1858 Section 2. Within every such district a Resident Magistrate to be present specially appointed for the purpose by the Government, assisted by at least one Native Assessor, shall hold periodically at convenient times and places a Court to be styled “Native Circuit Court” of such district.
Assessors Court Section 32. It shall be lawful for the Government to select certain Assessors to hold a Court, to be styled “The Assessors’ Court,” and such Assessors shall hold Assessors Courts within such districts appointed under this Act as the Governor may assign to them respectively for that purpose.