• Preamble

  WHEREAS in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one a company or association was established in England by the name of “The Phoenix Assurance Company of London,” for the purpose of making and effecting insurances on houses, warehouses, and buildings, shipping in port, goods, wares, and merchandise, farming stock, utensils, and property of all descriptions against loss or damage by fire, and generally to carry on the business usually called or known as fire insurance, and all matters connected therewith; and upon the establishment of the said company or association a deed of settlement was made, dated the twenty-seventh day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one: And whereas by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, passed in the fifty-third year of the reign of His late Majesty King George III, intituled an “Act to enable the Phoenix Assurance Company of London to sue and be sued in the Name of their Secretary or any Member,” the company were enabled to sue and be sued in the name of their Secretary or any member: And whereas the said company has for several years carried on, and still continues to carry on, such business in New Zealand, under the direction of its General Agent and Attorney, in the name of the Phoenix Assurance Company of London: And whereas it is expedient to enable the said Phoenix Assurance Company of London to sue and be sued in New Zealand in the name of the company:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—