The South Australia Act allows for the…
August 1834 CE
The South Australia Act allows for the creation of a colony there.
The South Australia Act 1834 (4 & 5 Will. IV c. 95) is the short title of an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom with the long title:
An Act to empower His Majesty to erect South Australia into a British Province or Provinces and to provide for the Colonisation and Government thereof
It provides for the settlement of a province or multiple provinces on the lands between 132 degrees east and 141 degrees of east longitude, and between the Southern Ocean, and 26 degrees south latitude, including the islands adjacent to the coastline.
It is put into effect on August 15, 1834.
The Act largely reflects the views of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who proposes to reform Britain's convict/penal colonization and mismanagement of crown lands by systematic colonization.
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