The New Zealand Constitution Act 1852
WHEREAS by an Act of the Session holden in the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Sixty-two, it was enacted, that it should be lawful for Her Majesty, by Letters Patent, to be from Time to Time issued under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, to erect into separate Colony or Colonies any Islands which then were or which thereafter might be comprised within and be Dependencies of the Colony of New South Wales: And whereas, in pursuance of the Powers in Her Majesty vested by the s...