Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865
Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865 (1865 c. 63)
- Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865 (1865 c. 63)
- 1 Definitions “Colony:” Legislature. Colonial Legislature: Representative Legislature: Colonial Law: Act of Parliament, &c. to extend to colony when made applicable to such colony: Governor: Letters patent
- 2 Colonial law when void for repugnancy.
- 3 Colonial law when not void for repugnancy.
- 4 Colonial law not void for inconsistency with instructions.
- 5 Colonial legislatures may establish, &c. courts of law. Representative legislature may alter constitution.
- 6 Certified copies of laws to be evidence that they are properly passed. Proclamation to be evidence of assent and disallowance.
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