New Forest Poor Relief. can be made, within or adjoining to the said Forest, in Portions Woods and of such Extent and bounded in such Manner and upon such Forests, annex Conditions and subject to such Provisions as the Poor Law Board Extra-paroshall think fit, and shall submit the same to the Court of Quarter chial Lands Sessions of the County in which the Piece of Land to which the not included in Townships to Order applies shall be situated, and such Court shall hear any adjoining Objections on behalf of the Owners or Occupiers of the Lands or Parishes. of the Vestry of the Parish interested in the same, and either confirm the Order or alter it, as they shall see fit, and thenceforth the said Portions shall be dealt with according to the Order of the Quarter Sessions. 4. If in any such Township so to be formed as aforesaid it shall appear to the Justices that Two Overseers cannot conveniently be appointed from the Inhabitant Householders thereof, or are not required for such Township, such Justices may appoint One only; and if it shall appear to them that there is no such Householder liable or fit to be appointed, they shall appoint some Inhabitant of au adjoining Parish or Place willing to serve to be such Overseer, either with or without an annual Salary, such Salary, if any, to be approved by the Poor Law Board, and to be paid out of the Poor Rate of such Township; and such lastmentioned Appointment shall endure until the usual Time of the Appointment of Overseers, and may be renewed from Year to Year as long as the Justices shall find necessary. 5. If any such Township shall be added to any Union, the Overseer or Overseers thereof shall act as the Guardian or Guardians of such Township as the Board of Guardians of such Union until there shall be Ratepayers thereof qualified to elect a Guardian: Provided that if the Poor Law Board shall direct One Guardian only to be appointed for any such Township, and there shall be Two Overseers appointed for the same, the Overseer first appointed or whose Name shall stand first in the Warrant of Appointment shall act as such Guardian, and in the Case of his Decease or Incapacity during the Year of Office the other Overseer shall thenceforth act as such Guardian: Provided also, that no such paid Overseer as aforesaid shall be authorized to act as a Guardian. One Overseer only may be appointed by the Justices. Overseers may act as Guardians until there be Ratefed to elect. payers quali 6. The Overseers or Overseer appointed under the Authority All Powers, of this Act shall have all the Powers, Authorities, Privileges, &c. of OverExemptions, and Protections which Overseers now or hereafter seers extended shall possess, and shall be subject to all the Obligations, Respon- to Overseers sibilities, Penalties, and Consequences which Overseers are now or may hereafter be liable to. under this Act. 7. The Powers, Provisions, and Authorities contained in the Powers relatEleventh and Twenty-first Sections respectively of the One ing to Exahundred and ninth Chapter of the Statute passed in the Tenth mination of and Eleventh Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty relating extended to Witnesses, &c. to the summoning and examining of Witnesses and the requiring this Act. and enforcing the Production of Returns and other Documents therein mentioned shall extend and be applicable to the Proceedings under this Act. British Columbia. New Forest Poor Relief. Terms used in this Act to be Saving Rights of the Crown. Short Title. Short Title. "Governor." British Columbia and Vancouver Island united on Proclamation. As to Government of the 8. The Words used in this Act shall be construed in the like Manner as in the Seventy-sixth Chapter of the Statute passed in the Fourth and Fifth Years of King William the Fourth, and the Provisions contained therein and in the subsequent Acts explaining and extending the same, and not repealed, shall, so far as they shall be consistent herewith, be extended to this Act. 9. Saving always to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, all such Estate, Right, Title, Interest, Prerogative, and Benefit, as She or They had or enjoyed or could or might have had or enjoyed in, to, or out of or in respect of the said Extra-parochial Lands, Parishes, Townships, and Places in case this Act had not passed. 10. This Act may be cited for all Purposes as "The New Forest Poor Act." CA P. LXVII. An Act for the Union of the Colony of Vancouver Island with the Colony of British Columbia. [6th August 1866.] BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as The British Columbia Act, 1866. 2. In this Act the Term "Governor means any Officer for the Time being lawfully administering the Government. 3. From and immediately after the Proclamation of this Act by the Governor of British Columbia, the Colony of Vancouver Island shall be and the same is hereby united with the Colony of British Columbia, and thenceforth those Two Colonies shall form and be One Colony, with the Name of British Columbia (which Union is in this Act referred to as the Union). 4. On the Union taking effect, the Form of Government existing in Vancouver Island as a separate Colony shall cease, United Colony. and the Power and Authority of the Executive Government and of the Legislature existing in British Columbia shall extend to and over Vancouver Island; but in order that Provision may be made for the Representation of Vancouver Island in the Legislature of British Columbia after the Union, the maximum Number of Councillors in the Legislative Council of British Columbia after the Union shall, until it is otherwise provided by lawful Authority, be Twenty-three instead of Fifteen. Laws of the separate Colonies to continue except as to Revenue of Customs. 5. After and notwithstanding the Union the Laws in force in the separate Colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver Island respectively at the Time of the Union taking effect shall, until it is otherwise provided by lawful Authority, remain in force as if this Act had not been passed or proclaimed; save only that the Laws relative to the Revenue of Customs in force in British Columbia at the Time of the Union taking effect shall, until it is otherwise British Columbia. otherwise provided by lawful Authority, extend and apply to Vancouver Island; and, until it is otherwise provided by lawful Authority, the Governor of British Columbia shall have, in relation to the Territory for the Time being under his Government, all the Powers and Authorities for the Time being vested, in relation to the United Kingdom, in the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury or in the Commissioners of Customs, with respect to the Appointment of Warehousing Ports, and the Approval and Appointment of Warehouses or Places of Security in such Ports, and everything consequent thereon or relative thereto. 6. Nothing in this Act shall take away or restrict the Authority Nothing to of the Governor of British Columbia, with the Advice and Consent restrict Authoof the Legislative Council thereof, to make Laws for the Peace, rity of GoverOrder, and good Government of British Columbia either before nor, &c. or after the Union; nor shall anything in this Act interfere with the Exercise of any Power that would have been exerciseable by Her Majesty in Council if this Act had not been passed. Columbia until 7. Until the Union British Columbia shall comprise all such Boundaries Territories within the Dominions of Her Majesty as are bounded of British to the South by the Territories of the United States of America, to the West by the Pacific Ocean and the Frontier of the Russian Territories in North America, to the North by the Sixtieth Parallel of North Latitude, and to the East from the Boundary of the United States Northwards by the Rocky Mountains and the One hundred and twentieth Meridian of West Longitude, and shall include Queen Charlotte's Island and all other Islands adjacent to the said Territories, except Vancouver Island and the Islands adjacent thereto. 8. After the Union British Columbia shall comprise all the Boundaries Territories and Islands aforesaid and Vancouver Island and the after Union. Islands adjacent thereto. 9. The Acts described in the Schedule to this Act are hereby Acts in Scherepealed; but this Repeal shall not invalidate any Order in dule repealed. Council or other Instrument issued under the Authority of those Acts or either of them, or any Act done or Right or Title acquired by virtue of those Acts or of either of them or of any such Order or Instrument. 21 & 22 Vict. c. 99. 26 & 27 Vict. c. 83. SCHEDULE. Acts repealed. An Act to provide for the Government An Act to define the Boundaries of the СА Р. Pensions. Interpretation of Terms. Applications by retiring Officers to be made to the Lord Chan cellor, who shall transmit the same to the Treasury to examine and award. 6 CA P. LXVIII. An Act to amend the Law relating to the granting of Pen- WE HEREAS by divers Acts of Parliament Power is given to the Lord Chancellor to order Retiring Allowances to be paid, under certain Circumstances and upon certain Conditions, to Persons holding various Offices in the Courts of Chancery and in Bankruptcy and Lunacy respectively : 'And whereas it is expedient to extend that Power, and, to 'make further Provision for the granting Retiring Allowances to Persons holding Offices connected with the Administration of Justice in England:' Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: 1. The Term "Officer" in this Act shall extend to and mean any Person holding any Office in or connected with the Court of Chancery, or in Bankruptcy or Lunacy, or in or in any Manner connected with any of Her Majesty's Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster, and who, under any Act now in force, may, on Retirement, claim a Superannuation Allowance as herein-after defined, and the same Term shall also extend to and include every Person holding any Appointment in any public Office whatever to whom the Lord Chancellor has or shall have Authority to order any Superannuation Allowance to be paid: The Term 66 Superannuation Allowance" shall extend to and mean every Kind of Pension or Annuity which, under any Act of Parliament now in force or to be hereafter passed, the Lord Chancellor has or shall have Authority to order to be paid, or which the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have or shall have Authority to appoint or direct to be paid, to any such Officer as aforesaid: The Expression "Lord Chancellor" shall mean and include the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and the Lord Keeper or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of the United Kingdom for the Time being. 2. From and after the passing of this Act, on the Retirement or Removal of any Officer afflicted with any permanent Infirmity disabling him from the due Execution of his Office, or otherwise in a Condition to claim Superannuation Allowance on Retirement, such Officer, or in case of his Inability to act for himself then any Person on his Behalf, may make Application by Petition to the Lord Chancellor, setting forth his Service and Emoluments, in such Form and with such Particulars as the Lord Chancellor shall direct; and the Lord Chancellor, if he shall think fit to approve of such Application, shall transmit the same to the Pensions. the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for their Examination and Award; and the said Commissioners shall thereupon proceed to inquire into the Claim of such Officer to Superannuation Allowance, and, if he shall appear to be entitled thereto, shall award to him such Superannuation Allowance as shall be properly payable. If such Superannuation Allowance is payable out of Monies voted by Parliament, the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall direct the Payment thereof. If it is payable out of any Fund in Chancery, Bankruptcy, or Lord ChanLunacy, or any other Fund under the Control and Administration cellor to direct of the Lord Chancellor, a Certificate shall be transmitted by the Payment when said Commissioners to the Lord Chancellor, to the Effect that payable out of Funds under Proof has been given to their Satisfaction that the Conditions his Control. required by Law to enable the Lord Chancellor to grant such Superannuation have been duly fulfilled, and setting forth the Amount awarded, whereupon it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor to order Payment to be made accordingly. tion Allow 3. In ascertaining and awarding the Amount of such Super- Mode of annuation Allowance, as regards any Officer who may have entered determining the Public Service before the passing of this Act, the said Com- Superannuamissioners shall have regard to any special Provisions which may ance. be contained in any Act with reference to the Office held by such Officer, and subject to any such special Provisions they may take into consideration the whole Period during which such Person shall have been employed in any Office or Situation connected in any way with the Public Service, whether the same shall have been in One only or in more than One Branch or Department; and as regards all Officers hereafter to be appointed, the said Commissioners shall proceed according to the Principles laid down in the Act passed in the Session of the Fourth and Fifth Years of His Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to 4 & 5 W. 4. alter and consolidate the Law regulating the Pensions, Com- c. 24. pensations, and Allowances to be made to Persons in respect of their having held Civil Offices in His Majesty's Service, as amended by the Act passed in the Session of the Twenty-second Year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to amend the Laws concerning Superannuation and other Allowances to Persons having held Offices in the Public Service. 4. It shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor to declare by Writing under his Hand, with respect to any such Office or Appointment as aforesaid, that the same is an Office or Appointment for the due and efficient Discharge of the Duties of which Professional or other peculiar Qualifications, not ordinarily to be acquired in the Public Service, are required, and that it is in the Interest of the Public that Persons shall be appointed thereto at an Age exceeding that at which Public Service ordinarily begins; and further, with the Consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, to order and direct that when any Person now holding or to be hereafter appointed to such Office or Appointment, or any of such Class of Officers, shall retire from Public Service, a Number of Years, not exceeding Twenty, to be specified 29 & 30 VICT. N in 22 Vict. c. 26. Lord Chancellor may declare Offices to be professional, and with Consent of Treasury to add Years to Services. |