✨ Native Lands Alienation Commission Rules
THE
HAWKE'S BAY GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY).
All public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto
annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom
they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
JOHN DAVIES ORMOND, Superintendent.
VOL. XIV. THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1873. No. 7.
HAWKE'S BAY NATIVE LANDS
ALIENATION COMMISSION
ACT, 1872.
The subjoined rules of procedure have been made by the Commissioners, under the abovementioned Act.
C. W. RICHMOND,
Chairman.
Napier, Jan. 30, 1873.
- The order of proceeding in Court shall be as follows:—
The party complainant shall, in the first place, open the matter of complaint, and shall shortly state the nature of the evidence to be adduced in support.
Any complainant appearing in person shall, before opening his case, be sworn as a witness to the truth of all matters of fact to be by him stated as of his own knowledge.
After hearing the opening, the Commissioners will inquire whether any party affected by the complaint claims to be heard in answer or opposition thereto; and will decide upon the right to be heard of every party so claiming.
The party complainant may then proceed to call and examine witnesses, and adduce evidence; after which, opposing parties, successively, in such order as the Commissioners shall find convenient, will be at liberty to do the like.
If an opposing party calls no witnesses, the party complainant is then to address the Commissioners on the case, and the opposing party will have the right to reply. But if an opposing party calls any witness, such party is to address the Commissioners on the case at the close of the evidence, and the complainant will have the right of reply.
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Where there is more than one opposing party, having a distinct case and interest, the case against each will be treated by the Commissioners, so far as practical, as a distinct case.
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Every witness called by the parties will be subject to cross-examination; and, the party calling such witness, will be at liberty to re-examine.
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Liberty to call witnesses in reply.
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Hawke's Bay Provincial Gazette 1873, No 7
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- C. W. Richmond, Chairman