Indemnity Act 1860

Public Act		1860 No 29
Date of assent		2 November 1860

	Title
	Preamble.
I	Short Title.
II	Officers and others indemnified for acting under authority of Proclamation.

An Act to Indemnify the Officers of Her Majesty’s Forces for all acts done by them under a certain Proclamation of Martial Law.

Preamble.

WHEREAS by a Proclamation bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of January, One thousand eight hundred and sixty, the Governor of New Zealand did proclaim and declare that Martial Law would be exercised in the Province of Taranaki;

Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand, in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

I Short Title.

The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Indemnity Act, 1860”

II Officers and others indemnified for acting under authority of Proclamation.

All and singular the Officers of Her Majesty’s Forces and others who shall have duly acted under the authority of the said recited Proclamation shall be and they are hereby respectively freed, indemnified and discharged of and from all actions and prosecutions which they respectively may have been or may become liable or subject to, for, or by reason or by means of, or in relation to, any act, matter, or th ng done by any such Officer or person, by virtue or under the authority of the said Proclamation before the passing of this Act; and no such act, matter, or thing done by any such Officer or person under or by virtue of such Proclamation shall be questioned in the Supreme Court, or in any Court whatsoever within the Colony of New Zealand.

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