1Application of New South Wales Laws to Victoria Act 1851

Victorian Legislation Parliamentary Documentsi Version No. 001 Application of New South Wales Laws to Victoria Act 1851 Act No. 49/1851 Version as at 24 February 2003 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Section Page Duties payable in New South Wales payable in District of Port Phillip 3 II. All laws and regulations applicable to Colony of Victoria 3 III. Imported goods subject to duty 4 ═══════════════ ENDNOTES 5

1. General Information 5
2. Table of Amendments 6
3. Explanatory Details 7

Victorian Legislation Parliamentary Documents1 Version No. 001 Application of New South Wales Laws to Victoria Act 1851 Act No. 49/1851 Version as at 24 February 2003 An Act to provide that the Revenue and other Laws and Regulations made in and for the Colony of New South Wales, shall, after the erection of the District of Port Phillip into the separate Colony of Victoria, continue in force within the last-mentioned Colony until altered by the Legislature thereof. 1 Preamble WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parliament, passed in the Session of the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled, An Act for the better Government of Her Majesty's Australian Colonies, it is amongst other things enacted, that after such provisions for establishing Electoral Districts as therein mentioned shall have been made by the Governor and Legislative Council of New South Wales, and upon the issuing of the writs for the first election in pursuance thereof, the territories comprised within the District of Port Phillip shall be separated from the Colony of New South Wales, and that thereupon the powers of the Governor of New South Wales over and in respect of the Colony of Victoria shall cease: AND WHEREAS it is expected that such writs will shortly be issued, whereupon the territories comprised within the said District of Port Phillip will cease to form part of the Colony of New South Wales:

Victorian Legislation Parliamentary DocumentsAct No. 49/1851 Application of New South Wales Laws to Victoria Act 1851 2 AND WHEREAS certain Acts of the Governor and Council of the Colony of New South Wales have provided for the levying of certain "duties upon spirits, wines, and other goods and merchandise imported into the said Colony of New South Wales and its dependencies:" AND WHEREAS also a certain other Act of the said Governor and Council has provided for the "general regulation of the Customs in New South Wales:" AND WHEREAS also divers other Acts of the said Governor and Council, and various Government and other public regulations, made in pursuance of some of such Acts, have made other provisions and regulations purporting to apply to the said "Colony of New South Wales only:" AND WHEREAS doubts may arise whether, after such separation as aforesaid, the said several duties upon spirits, wines, and other goods and merchandise will be legally leviable within the said Colony of Victoria, and also whether the said several other Acts, and the said Government and other public regulations, will apply to and be in force within the said Colony of Victoria after such separation as aforesaid: AND WHEREAS it is necessary to remove such doubts, and to provide that all laws and all rules and regulations founded thereon, which now apply to the said District of Port Phillip as a part of the said Colony of New South Wales, shall, until altered by the Legislature of Victoria, continue to be in full force and effect within the territories comprised within the said district after their separation as aforesaid in the same manner as if such separation had not taken place: Preamble