AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTIONS ACT 1842 - SECT 51 Provision for constitution of new colonies
AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTIONS ACT 1842 - SECT 51
Provision for constitution of new colonies51 Provision for constitution of new colonies
And whereas the said Colony of New South Wales is of great extent and it may
be fit that the territories now comprised within the said Colony should be
divided into separate colonies and provision should be made for the temporary
administration of the government of any such newly erected colony as not being
comprised within the limits hereinafter mentioned may not possess a sufficient
population for the immediate establishment therein of the form of government
hereinbefore provided.
Be it therefore enacted that anything hereinbefore contained to the contrary
notwithstanding it shall be lawful for Her Majesty by letters patent to be
from time to time issued under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland to define as to Her Majesty shall seem meet the limits of
the Colony of New South Wales and to erect into a separate colony or colonies
any territories which now are or are reputed to be or hereafter may be
comprised within the said Colony of New South Wales.
Provided always that no part of the territories lying southward of the
twenty-sixth degree of south latitude in the said Colony of New South Wales
shall by any such letters patent as aforesaid be detached from the said
colony.