Property Rate Repeal Act 1845

Public Act		1845 No 4
Date of assent		8 April 1845

	Title
	Preamble reciting Property Rate Ordinance.
1	Property Rate Ordinance repealed and Customs Duties revived.
2	Arrears &c. of Property Rate still recoverable.
3	Commencement of Ordinance.

No. IV.

An Ordinance to repeal “An Ordinance for imposing a Rate upon Property, and for repealing ’The Customs Ordinance,’ Session I., No. 3, and ‘The Customs Amendment Ordinance,’ Session III., No. 6.”

Preamble reciting Property Rate Ordinance.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance enacted by the Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof (Session IV., No. 2), intituled “An Ordinance for imposing a Rate upon Property, and for repealing ‘The Customs Ordinance,’ Session I., No. 3, and ‘The Customs Amendment Ordinance,’ Session III., No. 6,” it is enacted that the said Customs Ordinance and the said Customs Amendment Ordinance be repealed; and it is thereby also enacted that there shall be levied in manner thereinafter mentioned, in respect of property and income, a yearly rate according to the scale in the Schedule to the said Ordinance annexed: And whereas it is expedient that the said recited Property Rate Ordinance (Session IV., No. 2) should be repealed, and that the duties imposed upon goods imported into the Colony, and all the provisions made for the regulation and protection of the Revenue of Customs by the said Customs Ordinance and the said Customs Amendment Ordinance, should be revived:

Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:—

1 Property Rate Ordinance repealed and Customs Duties revived.

That the said recited Property Rate Ordinance shall be repealed, and that the said Customs Ordinance, Session I., No. 3, and the said Customs Amendment Ordinance, Session III., No. 6, shall henceforth be of the same force and effect to all intents and purposes as they respectively were at or immediately before the passing of the said recited Property Rate Ordinance.

2 Arrears &c. of Property Rate still recoverable.

Provided always that all arrears of rate and composition due under the provisions of the said recited Property Rate Ordinance on the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and all penalties and forfeitures incurred on or before the said thirtieth day of April for a breach of any of the provisions of the said Ordinance, shall still be recoverable in manner therein described, anything hereinbefore contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

3 Commencement of Ordinance.

This Ordinance shall come into operation at the Port of Auckland on the day next following the passing hereof; at every other port of entry within the Colony on the day next following the receipt of a copy hereof by the principal officer of Customs at any such port, who is hereby required immediately upon the receipt thereof to give public notice of the same; and at all other places throughout the Colony on the ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.

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