Quarter Sessions Act 1834 No 4a (NSW)

476	No. 16.	r GITL. lY.	1834.
Quarter Sessions.
No. XVI.

qi-ahter Sessions, Act to amcud ail Act of tlic Govcmor and Council intituled “ An Act for msfituting

Courts of General and Quarter Sessions in

“ New Soiith Wales:' [13th June, 1834.]

Preamble. “fA rtlER EA S by an Act of tlic Governor and Council passed in the

tenth year of the rei"ii of llis late ^Majesty Kiin^ Gcor̂ ^o the I'ourtli intituled “ An Act for institutuuj and regulating Courts of General and. Quarter Sessioiis in Neic South. Wales" provision is made for the nomination and appointment of a Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for tlie Districts of Sydney Parramatta "Windsor Camphell- town and Maitland as therein is more particularly mentioned And Avhereas by another Act of the Goveimor and Council passed in the third year of the reign of His present Alajcsty King "William the Pourtli intituled '■‘■An Act to consolidate and amend the Laius fo r the “ transportation and punishmod of Offenders in Neic South Wales

T T

“ ( O l d fo r defining the respectirc powers and authorities o f General

“ Quarter Sessions and Fettij Sessions and for determining the places “ (d which the same shall he holden a.ndfor better regulating the summary '•‘jurisdiction o f Justices o f theFeace and for repealing certain Laics and “ Ordinances relating thereto ” provision is made for holding Courts of Quarter Sessions at Bathurst and such other places as the G overnor sliould by Proclamation appoint and it is expedient to make further provision for appointing a Chairman to preside in the said respccth’c

Jusficcs fif tlic

district of Hathurst	Courts of Quarter Sessions at such places as last aforesaid Be it there­
cm]H)wered to nomi­	fore enacted by llis Excellency tlie Governor of the said Colony Avith the
nate a (^liairinaii of
tin; (iuartor Sessions	advice of the Legislative Council thereof That the Justices for the dis­
for th a t district.	trict of Bathurst shall appoint and nominate a person qualified to act as Chairman and transmit a minute tliereof to the Colonial Secretary for the purpose of being laid before tlie Governor Avithin the like time and in like manner as in and by the said first recited Act is directed and in like manner as if the district of Bathurst had been mentioned and included in the said first recited act and tlie person in Avhose favour the majority of the minutes of nomination shall appear shall he declared to he the Chairman of the Quarter Sessions of the said district of Bathurst.
Governor ma}’’
appt'int a Cliairman	2. And he it further enacted That Aidien and so often as it time-being to appoint Courts of General Quarter Sessions to he holden at such distant places in the said Colony at AAdrich the Chairman appointed as aforesaid cannot conveniently attend it shall and may he
a t distant places as	shall appear expedient to the Governor of tlie said Colony for the
often as expedient.
hiAA-ful for the said Governor and he is licrehy authorized and em­
powered to nominate and appoint some fit and proper person being a Justice of the Peace to act as the Chairman of such Courts of General Quarter Sessions respectively and that the person or persons so respectively nominated and appointed by the said Governor to act as Chaii'iiian of such Courts of General Quarter Sessions respectively shall have and exercise the same jurisdiction and authority as the Chairman appointed pursuant to the provisions of the said recited Act or Ordinance passed in the tenth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Eourth.
Provision made for

snpplyin^^ the place 3. And Avhereas no provision hath l>ecn made to supply the

of Chairman 'a case	place of the said Chairman so to he ajApointed under the provisions of
of death resignation
illness &c.	the said recited Act passed in the tenth year of the reign of His late

Majesty

1834. 4̂ GUL. IV. No. 17. 477

Imperial Act Acloj)tion.

Majesty Kin" George tlic Pourth in case of tlie cleatli resignation removal or illness of the said Chairman during the year for which he shall 1)0 so appointed and declared as aforesaid and whereas it is cx})edicnt to provide for the same Ec it therefore further enacted by the authority aforesaid That in case of the death resignation or removal of the Chairman so to he appointed and declared pursuant to the proA'isions of the said recited Act or Ordinance passed in the tentli year of llis said late Majesty or of any other Chairman to he appointed for any otlier district of the said Colony under the prolusions of this Act during the year for ivhich he shall he so appointed and declared as aforesaid by reason ivlioreof the place or situation of such Chairman shall become imid or if from illness he shall he unable to attend to the duties of his said office that then and in every such case it shall and may be laivful to and for the Goi'ernor of the said Colony for the time-being and he is hereby cmpoivered and authoriz.ed by any Notice in the Gocernincnt Gazette duly issued for such purpose to nominate and appoint some other lit ajid proper person to act as Chairman of such General Quarter Sessions as aforesaid for the residue of the year for wliich such Chairman had been nominated and declared as aforesaid or during the illness of such Chairman and that the person so to be ])ominated and appointed by the Governor as aforesaid shall during tiie period for ivhich he shall be so nominated and appointed to act as Chairman have such and the same power authority and jurisdiction as the said Chairman so to be appointed pursuant to the provisions of tlie said recited Act or Ordinance passed in tlic tenth year of the reign of llis said late Majesty or of any other Chairman of any other district of the said Colony to be appointed pursuant to the provisions of this Act or Ordinance.