1870s List_of_statutes_of_New_Zealand_(1840–90)

1 1870s

1.1 1870 [1]
1.2 1871 [57]
1.3 1872 [102]
1.4 1873 [146]
1.5 1874 [191]
1.6 1875 [240]
1.7 1876 [301]
1.8 1877 [373]
1.9 1878 [462]
1.10 1879 [528]

1870s
1870 [1]

agricultural produce lien act [2]
christchurch gas act [3] amended: 1971
colonial reciprocity act [4]
deceased persons estates act [5]
defence , other purposes loan act [6]
deputy superintendent of wellington act [7]
district courts criminal jurisdiction extension act [8]
fire inspectors act [9]
gisborne land act [10]
gold duties act [11]
government officers guarantee act [12]
government summary prosecutions act [13]
green land claims settlement act [14]
harbour boards act [15]
hawke s bay crown lands sale act [16]
hawke s bay renewal of licenses act [17]
immigration , public works act [18]
immigration , public works loan act [19]
kaiapoi native industrial school grant act [20]
land transfer act [21] amended: 1902/13/25/39/50/58/59/60/61/63/66/72/82/85/86/91/93/94/95/97/2005
limited liability companies winding-up act [22]
marlborough sale of reserves act [23]
merchant ships officers examination act [24]
meredith , others pension act [25]
mohaka , waikare district act [26]
native lands frauds prevention act [27]
new zealand , australian submarine telegraph act [28]
new zealand government insurance , annuities act [29]
new zealand university act [30] amended: 1912/14/15/19/23/26/28/29/30/50/53/54/56/57/58/59/60
otago , southland union act [31]
outlying districts sale of spirits act [32]
partition act [33]
payments provinces act [34]
punishment of high treason act [35]
qualifications of electors act [36]
resident magistrates evidence act [37]
richmond land sales act [38]
sale non-payment of rates act [39]
sales mortgagees act [40]
south sea islands drawbacks act [41]
temporary loan act [42]
the aliens act [43]
the canterbury gauge act [44]
the johnston land grant act [45]
the provincial reserved bills act [46]
the treasury bills extended currency act [47]
the wellington , hawke s bay public debt apportionment act exten act [48]
turner s land grant act [49]
unincorporated boards suits act [50]
vexatious indictments act [51]
wairarapa town lands management act [52]
wairau valley road act [53]
wellington gas company act [54]
wellington waste lands act [55] amended: 1865
westland waste lands act [56]

plus 27 acts amended

1871 [57]

appeals provincial rating act [58]
auckland burial-ground act [59]
auckland gas company act [60] amended: 1963/68/69
auckland harbour docks act [61]
auckland military reserves act [62]
auckland mineral leases act [63]
bakers , millers act [64]
bishops in new zealand trusts act [65]
branigan allowance act [66]
carrington land grant act [67]
charitable funds appropriation act [68]
church lands building leases act [69]
city of christchurch loan act [70]
city of dunedin borrowing act [71]
coasting trade regulation act [72]
contractors debts act [73]
convicts forfeitures act [74]
crown redress act [75]
dunedin , port chalmers railway act [76]
east coast district land titles validation act [77]
forest trees planting encouragement act [78]
gold mines drainage act [79]
gold mining districts act [80]
highway boards act [81]
invercargill public gardens reserves alienation act [82]
kukutai grant validation act [83]
lundon , whitaker claims act [84]
masterton , greytown lands management act [85]
native districts road boards act [86]
naturalization act 1870 fees act [87]
nelson city gas act [88]
nelson city loan act [89]
otago supreme court offices act [90]
prisoners maintenance expenses act [91]
sharebrokers act [92] amended: 1952/57/67/81/88/94/96
taranaki education reserves act [93]
the juries act [94]
the otago settlements act [95]
wellington city reserves act [96]
wellington debts act [97]
wellington education reserves act [98]
wellington reclaimed land act [99]
wellington special settlements act [100]
wellington waterworks act [101]

plus 27 acts amended

1872 [102]

auckland mechanics institute site sale act [103]
auckland temperance hall site sale act [104]
borough of wanganui borrowing act [105]
canterbury public domains act [106]
canterbury ratepayers rolls revision act [107]
church of england lands buildings lease act [108]
coromandal tunnel company act [109]
drawbacks act [110]
dunedin gas , water works loan act [111]
government contractors arbitration act [112]
greymouth harbour works advance validation act [113]
hawke s bay native lands alienation commission act [114]
hawke s bay special settlements act [115]
imprest supply act [116]
limited liability joint stock companies dissolution act [117]
lyttelton harbour works loan act [118]
miners rights extension act [119]
mining companies act [120]
municipal corporations waterworks act [121]
newmarket reserve disposal act [122]
north dunedin cemetery act [123]
north otago district public works loan act [124]
oamaru dock trust land act [125]
otago dock trust debt act [126]
public health act [127] amended: 1901/02/03/04/10/15/18/19
public trust office act [128] amended: 1905/07/12/13/17/19/21/48/51/56/67/68/71/72/75/77/78/82/83/86/90/94
quartz-crushing machines regulation , inspection act [129]
schafer, mcguire, , others pension act [130]
superintendents of marlborough election act [131]
taranaki new zealand company s land claims act [132]
telegraph service of notices act [133]
the auckland waterworks act [134]
the clerk of parliaments act [135]
the gold duties act [136]
the highway boards empowering act [137]
the nelson special settlements act [138]
the payments provinces act [139]
the public revenues act [140]
the tramways act 1872 [141] amended: 1910/11/13/15/20/30/59/69/73/76/78/79/88
wanganui bridge , wharf act [142]
wanganui hospital act [143]
wardens courts proceedings validation act [144]
wellington college act [145]

plus 25 acts amended

1873 [146]

assaults on constables act [147]
auckland supreme court site act [148]
bank holidays act [149]
broughton land grant act [150]
canterbury public library act [151]
christchurch cathedral square act [152]
employment of females act [153]
general purposes loan act [154]
governor s salary , allowances act [155]
green island branch railway act [156]
harata patene claim rehearing act [157]
heni tareha matangi grant validation act [158]
imbecile passengers act [159]
immigrants land act [160]
life assurance companies act [161]
ministerial residence lease , lowry bay sale act [162]
native grantees act [163]
native land act [164] amended: 1912/13/14/15/16/17/18/19/20/21/22/23/24/25/26/27/28/29/30/32/36
native land duties act [165]
native reserves act [166] amended: 1858/62
neglected children s act [167]
new zealand extradition act [168]
otago hundreds proclamations validation act [169]
promissory oaths act [170]
province of westland act [171]
queenstown reserves act [172]
railways regulation , inspection act [173]
rangitikei-manawatu crown grants act [174]
resumption of land mining purposes act [175]
stewart island grants act [176] amended: 1876
superintendents of hawke s bay election act [177]
telegraph cables subsidy agreement ratification act [178]
thames gas company s act [179]
the port chalmers waterworks act [180]
the superintendent of taranaki empowering act [181]
timber floating act [182]
township of geraldine act [183]
wanganui river foreshore grant act [184]
washdyke , pleasant point railway act [185]
wellington college loan act [186]
wellington college vote in aid act [187]
wellington drainage , sewerage works loan act [188]
wellington harbour reserves mortgage release act [189]
westland loan act [190]

plus 24 acts amended

1874 [191]

auckland harbour act [192]
borough of thames tramways act [193]
burial-ground closing act [194]
canterbury marriages act [195]
canterbury water supply act [196]
city of christchurch drainage debentures act [197]
city of dunedin gasworks act [198]
clutha river trust reserves act [199]
colonial bank of new zealand act [200]
constitution of westport borough proceedings validation act [201]
cromwell waterworks act [202]
dunedin waterworks act [203]
excise duties act [204]
government insurance , annuities act [205]
harbour works act [206]
hokitika mayors act [207]
imprisonment debt abolition act [208]
inspection of machinery act [209] amended: 1894/1908/10/14/27/31
invercargill gas loan act [210]
lyttelton gas act [211]
municipal reserves act [212]
napier harbour board act [213] amended: 1887/89/99/1912
naval training schools act [214]
new plymouth exchanges completion act [215]
new zealand forests act [216]
oamaru harbour board land act [217]
oamaru hospital reserves act [218]
otago reserves act [219]
otago waste lands administration act [220]
outlying districts sale of spirits act 1870 orders in council validation act [221]
poverty bay lands titles act [222]
provincial fencing laws empowering act [223]
provincial public works advances act [224]
real estate descent act [225]
regulation of mines act [226]
taimaro , waimahana grants act [227]
taranaki iron smelting works lands act [228]
taranaki waste lands act [229]
the david lewis retiring allowance act [230]
the new plymouth harbour board endowment act [231]
the otago provincial public works advances act [232]
the wilson gray pension act [233]
wanganui mayors act [234]
wellington hospital loan act [235]
wellington land payments act [236]
wellington mayors act [237]
wellington waterworks loan act [238]
whakataki grants act [239]

plus 29 acts amended

1875 [240]

abolition of provinces act [241]
anatomy act [242]
anne hood grant act [243]
auckland city endowments , reserves act [244] amended: 2001
auckland harbour foreshore grant act [245]
auckland institute act [246]
campbelltown athenaeum act [247]
christchurch district drainage act [248] amended: 1911/14/20/22/23/24/26/27/28/31/32/35/44/48/54/57/60/66/67/69/70/71/75/79/85
chubbin land purchase act [249]
clutha river conservators board act [250]
clyde waterworks empowering act [251]
commissioners of supreme court act [252]
davides succession act [253]
dunedin corporation borrowing powers extension , debentures act [254]
dunedin waterworks extension act [255] repealed: 1978
fraudulent debtors act [256]
government apprentices act [257]
greytown , masterton public park , cemetery reserve act [258]
immigration , public works appropriation act [259]
immigration expenditure indemnity act [260]
invercargill municipal council empowering , waterworks loan act [261]
invercargill public offices site act [262]
kaitangata railway , coal company limited empowering act [263]
lodgers franchise act [264]
martin grant act [265]
moeraki harbour board act [266]
napier gas company act [267] amended: 1936
napier municipal council empowering , waterworks loan act [268]
napier swamp nuisance act [269]
new river harbour board land act [270]
new zealand presbyterian church act [271]
new zealand university reserves act [272]
oamaru gasworks act [273]
oamaru town hall , gasworks sites recreation reserves act [274]
oamaru waterworks act [275]
onehunga reserves act [276]
otago harbour board empowering act [277]
otago university site exchange act [278]
outram electric telegraph station reserve act [279]
palmerston waterworks act [280]
plans of towns regulation act [281]
presbyterian church of otago corporation act [282]
provincial appropriations extension act [283]
public libraries powers act [284]
queenstown waterworks act [285]
railway companies act [286]
registration of births , deaths act [287] amended: 1892
registration of mining companies validation act [288]
riddell grant act [289]
stamp act [290]
stamp fee act [291]
the kakanui harbour board act [292]
the new zealand presbyterian church act [293]
the wellington reclaimed land act [294]
timaru municipal council waterworks loan act [295]
university of otago site act [296]
wellington athenaeum , mechanics institute incorporation act [297]
wellington rivers act [298]
wellington toll gates act [299]
westport municipal reserve act [300]

plus 32 acts amended

1876 [301]

animals importation prohibition act [302]
auckland beach road grants act [303]
auckland public buildings act [304]
blueskin athenaeum reserve act [305]
blueskin recreation reserve act [306]
bluff harbour board act [307]
building societies act [308] amended: 1856/1951/55/70/78/80/82/83/87/89/93/2004/07
canterbury educational reserves sale , leasing act [309]
canterbury new brighton bridge act [310]
castlepoint harbour board act [311]
city of wellington loans consolidation act [312]
cromwell racecourse reserve act [313]
diseased sheep act [314]
douglas special settlement act [315]
dunedin drill-shed reserve act [316]
dunedin reserves exchange act [317]
dunedin wharves , quays reserves act [318]
education boards act [319]
ellesmere , forsyth reclamation , akaroa railway trust act [320]
executive councillors indemnity act [321]
financial arrangements act [322]
foxton harbour board act [323] amended: 1917
hawke s bay rivers act [324] amended: 1912/17/20/30/32/33/34/36
hokitika harbour board act [325]
intestate native succession act [326]
lawrence athenaeum , mining institute reserve act [327]
lawrence recreation reserve act [328]
lyttelton harbour board act [329]
lyttelton public reserves vesting act [330]
milton athenaeum reserve act [331]
milton municipality extension act [332]
moa flat school reserve act [333]
napier athenaeum , mechanics institute incorporation act [334]
napier borough endowments act [335] amended: 1999
napier hospital site act [336]
naseby waterworks act [337]
oamaru harbour board act [338]
ohinemuri gold field agricultural leases validation act [339]
otago , wellington tolls act [340]
otago harbour board act [341]
otago presbyterian church conveyance validation act [342]
otepopo athenaeum , public library reserve act [343]
patea harbour board act [344]
port molyneux reserves leasing act [345]
public works act [346] amended: 1901/04/05/08/09/10/11/13/14/23/24/25/27/28/35/47/48/52/53/54/55/56/58/60/61/62/63/64/65/67/70/71/72/73/74/75/76/77/82/83/87/88/91
queenstown commonage reserve management act [347]
rabbit nuisance act [348] amended: 1918/20/21/35/47/49/52/53
rating act [349] amended: 1910/11/13/15/22/24/35/50/54/57/60/62/65/69/70/72/73/74/76/77/78/80/81
regulation of local elections act [350]
renwick lease , conveyance act [351]
roman catholic lands act [352]
roxburgh reserves act [353]
south dunedin , st kilda municipalities validation act [354]
taranaki botanic garden act [355]
thames harbour board act [356]
thames water supply act [357]
the imprest supply act no 2 1876 act [358]
the maori representation acts continuance act [359]
timaru gas act [360]
timaru harbour board act [361] amended: 1906
waimakariri harbour board act [362]
waitahuna athenaeum act [363]
waitara harbour board act [364]
waiuku church of england site crown grant act [365]
waiuku native grants act [366]
wanganui harbour , river conservators board act [367]
warehoused goods act [368]
waste lands administration act [369]
wellington corporate land act [370]
wellington hospital , college reserves exchange act [371]
wellington reserves act [372]

plus 14 acts amended

1877 [373]

agricultural , pastoral societies act [374] amended: 1903/12/20/33/61/73/77/79/93
akaroa public library site act [375]
auckland college , grammar school act [376]
auckland highway districts validation act [377]
balculutha athenaeum act [378]
bankers books evidence act [379]
bluff harbour endowment , borrowing act [380]
borough of new plymouth reserves act [381]
cemeteries management act [382]
christchurch city reserves act [383] amended: 1929/32
church trust property @ little river exchange act [384]
city of dunedin loans consolidation act [385]
clyde public reserves grant act [386]
cromwell athenaeum reserves act [387]
crown lands sale act [388]
district railways act [389] amended: 1920/88
domicile act [390]
dunedin gaol street act [391]
dunedin gas , waterworks act [392]
dunedin school reserve act [393]
dunedin town hall site act [394]
education reserves act [395] amended: 1910/11/13/14/15/24/27/31/34/48
fine arts copyright act [396]
fish protection act [397]
government native land purchases act [398]
greenwood pension act [399]
havelock athenaeum , mechanics institute incorporation act [400]
havelock commonage act [401]
himatangi crown grants act [402]
hokanui education reserve act [403]
hokitika gas company act [404]
hutt county offices site act [405]
industrial , provident societies act [406] amended: 1919/23/52/57/64/65/67/73/77/79/81/83/93/94/2003/07
jackson s bay road district act [407]
kaiapoi cemetery act [408]
kaiapoi native reserves act [409]
land act 1877 [410] amended: 1950/51/52/53/54/56/58/59/60/61/62/63/64/65/67/68/70/71/72/74/75/77/79/81/82/84/98
lawrence athenaeum , mining institute act [411]
lawrence municipal waterworks act [412]
lawrence reserves act [413]
lyttelton , heathcote recreation ground act [414]
lyttelton harbour board land act [415]
lyttelton harbour works compensation act [416]
lyttelton public domain act [417]
manawatu land orders act [418]
mataura reserve act [419]
middle island half-caste crown grants act [420]
mines act [421]
mount cook road district act [422]
napier swamp nuisance act continuance act [423]
nelson gas , waterworks sale act [424]
new river harbour management act [425]
new zealand consolidated stock act [426]
oamaru athenaeum , mechanics institute reserves act [427]
onehunga endowments act [428]
otago boys , girls high schools act [429]
otago museum act [430]
peninsula county libraries act [431]
ponsonby highway district act [432]
port chalmers compensation act [433]
port chalmers mechanics institute incorporation , reserves act [434]
provincial laws evidence act [435]
public libraries subsidies act [436]
public reserves sale act [437]
queenstown athenaeum act [438]
sale of food , drugs act [439] amended: 1915/24
shipping , seamen act [440] amended: 1909/10/11/12/13/22/24/25/29/36/46/48/50/54/56/57/59/61/62/63/64/65/66/67/68/69/70/71/72/75/76/77/82/85/87/88/90/91
slaughterhouses act [441]
southland agricultural , pastoral association reserve act [442]
southland boys , girls high schools act [443] amended: 1951/71
special contracts confirmation act [444]
tapanui agricultural , pastoral exhibition reserve act [445]
taranaki county reserves act [446]
timaru , gladstone board of works property vesting act [447]
timaru mechanics institute act [448]
tokomairiro farmers club reserve act [449]
volunteers , others lands act [450]
waikato hospital reserves exchange act [451]
waikouaiti athenaeum land act [452]
waiwera school glebe sale act [453]
wakapuaka telegraph station site act [454]
wanganui gas company act [455]
wanganui harbour endowment , borrowing act [456]
waste lands boards continuance act [457]
west harbour mayoralty election validation act [458]
westland , nelson coal fields administration act [459] amended: 1881
whangarei port act [460]
wyndham recreation reserve act [461] amended: 1915/23

plus 41 acts amended

1878 [462]

administration act [463] amended: 1911/35/44/51/57/58/60/64/65/67/70/73/75/79/81/82/85/87/93/94/98/2001/03/05
ashburton high school act [464]
auckland girls high school act [465]
bluff harbour endowment act [466]
borough of christchurch reserves act [467]
christchurch boys high school act [468]
christchurch racecourse reserve act [469]
cruelty animals act [470]
district law societies act [471]
foxton reserves act [472]
greymouth racecourse reserve act [473]
hamilton volunteer hall site act [474]
hokitika harbour board endowment act [475]
inch clutha act [476]
incorporation of campbelltown act [477]
invercargill water works loan act [478]
land tax act [479] amended: 1977/78/81/82/83/85/86/88/89
lyttelton waterworks transfer act [480] amended: 1979
malvern water-race transfer act [481]
milford harbour board act [482]
milton athenaeum endowment act [483]
mount cook reserve sale act [484]
mount ida water-race trust act [485]
native licensing act [486]
nelson harbour board act [487] amended: 1901/02
new plymouth high school act [488] amended: 1966/70
new river harbour endowment , borrowing act [489]
newmarket reserve act [490]
norsewood mechanics institute site act [491]
north otago benevolent society act [492]
oamaru athenaeum , mechanics institute act [493]
oamaru market reserve act [494]
ormond military grants act [495]
otago , southland education reserves leasing act [496]
otago school commissioners empowering act [497]
otago university act [498]
parnell reserve act [499]
patea harbour act [500] amended: 1919
patumahoe hall site act [501]
railways construction act [502]
repeals act [503]
reprint of statutes act [504]
riverton harbour endowment , borrowing act [505]
savings bank profits act [506]
seals fisheries protection act [507]
sheep act [508]
special powers , contracts act [509]
taranaki county council loan act [510]
temporary powers act [511]
thames boys , girls high school act [512] amended: 1960/63
the catlin s river cemetery act [513]
timaru harbour board endowment act [514]
timaru high school act [515] amended: 1958
timaru post , telegraph offices site sale act [516]
trade union act [517]
waikato crown lands sale act [518]
wairoa harbour board act [519]
waitaki high school act [520] amended: 1954/63
wanganui high school act [521]
wellington city boundaries act [522]
wellington college reserves confirmation act [523]
wellington local boards empowering act [524]
whakatane grants validation act [525]
whangarei high school act [526] amended: 1959/66
wyndham cemetery act [527]

plus 30 acts amended

1879 [528]

alexandra corporation reserve act [529]
ashburton county council waterworks act [530]
auckland free public library aid act [531]
auckland harbour board act [532]
auckland improvement commissioners transfer of powers act [533]
awatere shearing reserve act [534]
christchurch drill-shed act [535]
city of auckland loans consolidation act [536]
confiscated lands inquiry , maori prisoners trials act [537]
district courts proceedings validation act [538]
elections validation act [539]
intercolonial probate act [540]
kaitangata , wangaloa athenaeums reserves act [541]
kumara education reserve act [542]
maori prisoners trials act [543]
marlborough river districts union act [544]
new river pilot station reserve act [545]
onehunga water reserves act [546]
onewhero grant empowering act [547]
oreti bridge , ferry reserves act [548]
otago university reserve leasing act [549]
property assessment act [550]
property tax act [551]
queenstown racecourse reserve act [552]
revision of statutes act [553]
riverton drill-shed reserve management act [554]
sites working-men s clubs act [555]
the bluff harbour foreshore endowment act [556]
the imbecile passengers act extension act [557]
the land-tax collection act [558]
the oamaru harbour board act [559]
the palmerston north reserves act [560]
the timaru harbour board empowering act [561]
the triennial parliaments act [562]
timaru waterworks act [563]
tobacco act [564] amended: 1910
wairarapa racecourse act [565]
waitara harbour board land , borrowing act [566]
waiuku recreation reserve act [567]
wanganui bridge debentures act [568]
wellington harbour board act [569]
wellington provincial district highway boards act [570]
west clive public hall site act [571]

plus 25 acts amended , 1 act repealed.