The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Temporary Powers Act, 1878.”

For the purpose of giving effect to any of the Acts mentioned in the Schedule hereto, and where no provision or no sufficient provision is, in the opinion of the Governor, made by such Acts for any of the cases hereinafter mentioned, the Governor in Council may from time to time make, alter, and revoke regulations, either general or applicable to particular cases only, as he thinks fit, for any of the following purposes:—

Providing for the formation, alteration, revision, and completion of rolls of county electors or burgesses upon the dissolution of a corporate body constituted under any of the said Acts, or the alteration of any district, or the boundaries thereof, or where from any cause whatever any county electors’ roll or burgess roll shall not have been made or completed as required by law;

Providing for making and completing of any valuation list or roll where a local body has been constituted after the date prescribed by law for the making and completion thereof, or where any such list or roll has not been made or completed as required by “The Rating Act, 1876;”

For removing any obstacle of a technical or formal nature in any of the above cases, and which would prevent full effect being given to any of the said Acts, and for validating all acts and things done in connection with any matter herein provided for.

The expression “local body” means any Council, Board, Trustees, Commissioners, or persons empowered under any Act or Ordinance to make or levy rates;

Every valuation roll, and every roll of county electors or burgesses made or to be made under the authority of an Order in Council or regulations made by the Governor, under any of the Acts mentioned in the Schedule, previous to the passing of this Act, shall be and be deemed to have been valid and effectual from the time of making the same, and shall continue in force until a fresh roll is made as by law required.

The Governor in Council may, on request of the Council of any county, by Proclamation, from time to time alter the boundaries of any county and of any riding therein, and shall have all the powers winch by “The Counties Act, 1876,” are vested in the Governor, or in the Council of a county, in respect of the alteration of the boundaries of a county or of the ridings thereof. The Council of any county may hold any meeting for the purpose of requesting the Governor in Council to exercise the powers conferred by this section, although “The Counties Act, 1876,” may not be in force in such county.

The provisions of section twenty-nine of the last-mentioned Act shall extend and apply to any case where the Governor in Council exercises the powers hereby conferred on him, but only in such manner and to such extent in respect of the counties whose boundaries have been altered as shall be prescribed in any Order in Council made under this enactment.

This Act shall only remain in force till the end of the next ensuing session of the General Assembly, unless other provision shall be made in that behalf, and shall not affect or control any other power or authority vested in the Governor or Governor in Council by any of the said Acts.