BYE-LAW NO. 6.

Buildings, &c., for Public Meetings, &c.

I N D E X.

1. Public Buildings, &c., to be Registered.
2. Certificate of Registration, &c.
3. Inspection.
4. Regulations.

A Bye-Law of the Council of the City of Christchurch, made under "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

In pursuance of the 181st section of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867," the Council of the City of Christchurch ordain as follows :

The provisions contained in part VI. of the 13th Schedule of the said Act are hereby adopted for the said City as follows, namely—

BUILDINGS, ETC., FOR PUBLIC MEETINGS, ETC.

1. Every occupier of any hall or other building used for public meetings, or of any such building, or any ground in which public amusements are conducted, shall in each year register at the office of the Council such building or ground, together with the situation and description thereof, and the purpose being such as aforesaid for which the same is to be kept, and the name of such occupier, and every person who causes, and every occupier of any such premises who permits any public meeting to be held, or any public amusement to be conducted in or on any such premises not being registered for the purpose, or without such certificate of registration as hereinafter mentioned having been obtained for the same, shall forfeit for every such offence a sum not exceeding twenty pounds.

2. The Council, upon the written application of any such occupier as aforesaid stating the particulars aforesaid, may, if upon inspection by the proper officer the premises shall have been found to be secure and proper for the purpose stated, and if the Council shall see fit, cause the premises to be registered in a registry book to be kept for that purpose, and shall thereupon grant to the applicant a certificate of such registration of such premises in the appointed form, and the Council may at any time suspend for a stated period the effect of, or cancel, any such registration, and shall forthwith give notice of such suspension or cancellation to the occupier of the registered premises; and during such suspension, or after such cancellation, such premises shall be deemed to be unregistered in respect of the purpose mentioned in the certificate of registration, and such certificate shall be of no force or virtue.

3. The proper officer of the Council may at all reasonable times enter and inspect any such registered premises as aforesaid.

4. It shall be lawful for the Council from time to time to make regulations for appointing the time and hours during or at which respectively any such registered building or ground shall be used for the purpose for which it is registered, or shall be closed, and every occupier of any such premises who permits the same to be used for such purpose during or at or any other time, or after any such hour respectively, shall for every such offence forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

Passed by the Council this the Eleventh day of April 1870.

ANDREW DUNCAN,
Mayor.

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GEORGE GORDON,
Town Clerk.

I hereby Certify that the above Bye-Law is in compliance with the 184th section of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

GEORGE GORDON,
Town Clerk.

BYE-LAW NO. 7.

Registration of Public Buildings for Meetings and Amusements.

A Bye-Law of the Council of the City of Christchurch, made under "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

In pursuance of the 186th section of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867," the Council of the City of Christchurch ordain as follows :—

1. The Registration of any hall or other building required to be registered under part VI. of the 13th Schedule of the said Act, shall be in force from the date thereof until the 31st day of December next ensuing, and may be renewed, on application at the Town Clerk’s office, not later than the 15th day of December previous to its expiry.

2. There shall be payable on every such registration and renewal a fee of one pound.

3. Notice of the suspension or cancellation of any registration shall be given by delivering to the occupier of the registered premises, or leaving for him at or upon such premises, a notice (in writing) of the fact of such suspension or cancellation, and of the time from which the same has taken or is to take effect, signed by the Town Clerk.