PATSY REDDY

Governor-General

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Second was pleased, by a Commission passed under the Seal of New Zealand, to appoint me, Patricia Lee Reddy, to be Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Realm of New Zealand:

NOW, THEREFORE, I the Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief aforesaid, hereby proclaim and declare that I have this day, by way of affirmation, taken the prescribed oaths before The Right Honourable Dame Sian Elias, Chief Justice of New Zealand, and that I have assumed the said office of Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Realm of New Zealand under and by virtue of Her Majesty’s said Commission.

Given under the hand of Her Excellency The Right Honourable Dame Patricia Lee Reddy, Chancellor and Principal Dame Grand Companion of The New Zealand Order of Merit, Principal Companion of The Queen’s Service Order, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Realm of New Zealand; and issued under the Seal of New Zealand, this 28th day of September 2016.

[L.S.]

JOHN KEY, Prime Minister.

God Save The Queen!