Geelong Jurisdiction of the Peace Act 1850 No 12a (NSW)

No. XII.

An Act to extend to the Town of Geelong and all such other Towns as may from time to time be incorporated the provisions of certain Acts relating to the Jurisdiction of the Peace within the respective Cities of Sydney and Melbourne and to certain other matters there­ in mentioned, [10th September, 1850.]

"and Town of Melbourne respectively" and also the provisions of a certain other Act of the said Governor and Council passed in

WHEREAS it is expedient to extend to the incorporated Town of incorporated in like manner the provisions of the several Acts of the Geelong and to such oilier Towns as may from time to time he
Governor and Legislative Council of New South Wales hereinafter specified Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof That the provisions of a certain Act of the said Governor and Legislative Council passed in the sixth year of the reign of Her present Majesty intituled " An Act to remove doubts in respect' " to the exercise of certain powers by the Councils of the City of Sydney " and Town of Melbourne and, to declare the competency of Witnesses " and the jurisdiction of Magistrates in certain cases within the same " and also the provisions of a certain other Act of the said Governor and Council passed in the seventh year of the said reign intituled " An "Actio alter and, amend the Law respecting the competency of the

"jurisdiction of Magistrates in certain cases within the City of Sydney

in the said seventh year of Her Majesty's reign intituled " An Act " to indemnify and render valid the Acts of certain Justices of the " Peace for the Territory of New South Wales and to enable 'Territorial " Justices of the Peace to act as such under certain limitations within the " boundaries of the City of Sydney and Town of Melbourne respectively" shall apply and he applied to and in relation to the Town of Geelong aforesaid and to all other Towns which shall from time to time become incorporated and he invested with separate jurisdictions in the same manner in all respects as if the said respective Towns had been expressly named in the said recited Acts in lieu of or in addition to the Cities of Sydney and Melbourne or as if the provisions of the said recited Acts had been and were re-enacted expressly with reference to the said Town of Geelong and to each and every other Town to be hereafter incorporated.

2. And whereas certain Commissions of the Peace have lately been issued by His Excellency the Governor to certain persons named in such Commissions constituting them to be Justices in and for the Town of Geclong And whereas doubts may arise as to the effect of such Commissions upon the more general and extensive Commissions of the Peace heretofore issued to Justices for the Territory of New South Wales Be it declared and enacted That the issuing of the said (Commissions or any other Commissions of the Peace for the Town of Geelong shall not have or be construed to have or to have had the effect of superseding such Commissions of the Peace for the Territory but such last mentioned Commissions shall be and continue to be of the same force and effect in every respect and in all places as if such (Commissions for the Town of Geclong had not been made or issued.