PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ORDINANCES ASSENTED TO AND DISALLOWED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 377, 6 March 1863, Page 5

PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ORDINANCES ASSENTED TO AND DISALLOWED.

The following is a list of the Bills passed at the last session of the Provincial Council, which were sent up to Auckland for the Governor's assent, showing which have been left to their operation and which disallowed, with the reasons assigned for such disallowance : — The Panama Mrtil Subsidy Ordinance, 1862, not assented to because such Provincial laws are objectionable; and moreover, this appropriates by Provincial Ordinance what can only be appropriated by Act of General Assembly. Otago Loan Ordinance, 18G2, assented to. Sheep Importation Ordinance, 1862") Harbor Endowment Ordinance, „ I .s g Thistle Prevention Ordiuance, „ "£ ~ Turnpike Ordinance, „ ~ g Dog Nuisance Ordinance, „ o" Appropriation Ordinance, ~ J >-< Executive Council Ordinance, 1862) Dunedin Municipal Estates do, „ >• jS V, Sunday Observance do, „ ) Q £ "The Executive Council Ordinance", because the action of the Superintendent is limited to the advice and consent of an Executive Council. " The Dunedin Municipal Estate Ordinance,. because the Superintendent's assent to it is against the 4th Clause of the Public Reserves Act Amendment Act, 1862, which reserves such bills for the Governors assent. '; Sunday Observance Ordinance," because oi its overstepping Provincial jurisdiction, ihe general objectionable nature of legislation of the kind, which is represented as invariably tending to defeat itself, and the Ist section not being wide enough. " The Unimproved Lands Bill, 1862," assent withheld. Former approbation of the intended bill, given on a'rriisapprchent-ion of its object. The Bill is regarded as imposing so heavy a tax, that it would fail to accomplish its object; and because the lands legislated on are Crown lands, and therefore could not be affected by the Provincial legislation. The conditions on which the lands were sold not being fulfilled, the land remains the property of the Crown; and as such Crown lands are expressly excluded by the Ordinance itself. The General Government design, however, taking the opinion of the Supreme Court on the rights of the land purchasers in question, and then to introduce such a bill at they deem best calculated to meet the exigences of the case.