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1901. NEW ZEALAND.

FIJI: ORDINANCE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MAKING PROVISION FOR PEACE AND GOOD ORDER.

Laid on the Table of both Houses by Leave.

Supplement to the Royal Gazette — Published by Authority.

No. 31. TUESDAY, 2 JULY. 1901.

AN ORDINANCE (Enacted by the Governor of the Colony of Fiji with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.) TO MAKE FUKTHEE PEOVISION FOE THE PEACE AND GOOD OEDEE OF THE COLONY. [L.S.] G. T. M. O'BEIEN. 29th June, 1901. WHEEEAS it is expedient to make further provision for the peace and good order of the Colony : Be it therefore enacted by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council as follows : — 1. For the purposes of this Ordinance "Fijian" shall mean any aboriginal native of Fiji. 2. Any person who shall cause or attempt to cause any Fijian to be disaffected towards the Government or who shall induce or attempt to induce any Fijian to take any action having for its object the subversion or alteration of the present form of Government shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance and shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding six months. Passed in Council this twenty-ninth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one.

Interpretation olause. To induce Fijian tobe disaffected an offenoe.

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