Queensland Consolidated Regulations

QUEENSLAND COAST ISLANDS

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           By His Excellency Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the colony of Queensland and its dependencies
           Whereas, by letters patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date 10 October, in the 42nd year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Her said Majesty did authorise the Governor for the time being of the Colony of Queensland, by proclamation under his hand and the Public Seal of the colony, to declare that from and after a day to be therein mentioned, certain islands, which are described in the schedule hereto, should be annexed to and form part of the said colony.
           And in the said letters patent it was provided that the said Governor is not to issue such proclamation as aforesaid until the Legislature of the said colony shall have passed a law providing that the said islands shall, on the day aforesaid, become part of the said colony, and subject to the laws in force therein; and in the said letters patent it was also provided that the application of the said laws to the said islands might be modified either by such proclamation as aforesaid, or by any law or laws to be from time to time passed by the Legislature of the said colony for the government of the said islands so annexed.
           And whereas by an Act passed by the Legislature of the said Colony of Queensland in the 43rd year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled 'An Act to provide that certain islands in Torres Straits and lying between the continent of Australia and the island of New Guinea shall become part of the Colony of Queensland and subject to the laws in force therein', it is enacted that from and after such a day as His Excellency the Governor of Queensland shall by proclamation under his hand and the Public Seal of the colony, as is authorised by the said letters patent, mention and appoint for that purpose, the islands described in the schedule hereto shall be annexed to and become part of the Colony of Queensland.
           Now, therefore, I, the Governor aforesaid, in pursuance of the power so vested in me, and by and with the advice of the Executive Council, do hereby notify and proclaim that from and after 1 August 1879, the islands described in the schedule hereto shall be annexed to and become part of the Colony of Queensland, and shall be and become subject to the laws in force therein.