New Zealand Gazette – 1861 – No. 3

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✨ Standing Orders and Fees



THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 11

  1. When leave to bring in a Private Bill
    shall have been obtained, and before it shall be
    read a first time, it shall be printed at the
    expense of the parties applying for it, in the
    same form as Public Bills, and a sufficient
    number of copies delivered to the Clerk for the
    use of the House.

  2. When a Private Bill shall have been
    read a first time, it shall be referred to a select
    committee, to be appointed on motion upon
    notice, and such committee shall require proof
    of the allegations contained in the preamble.

  3. Either House of the Assembly will
    accept the proof of compliance with Standing
    Orders in regard to Private Bills brought down
    from the other House, but will require proof of
    the Preamble.

  4. Every petition against a Private Bill
    shall be referred to the select committee on
    such Bill, and shall distinctly specify the
    grounds on which the petitioner objects thereto.

  5. Every select committee on a Private
    Bill may hear counsel, if desired, and may also
    take such oral or other evidence as they may
    deem requisite, and may decide on matters in
    issue between the persons conducting and
    opposing the Bill; after which, the question
    shall be put from the chair, "That this pre-
    amble stand part of the Bill." And if the
    committee should be of opinion that the pre-
    amble has not been satisfactorily proved, they
    shall direct the chairman to that effect, which
    shall be fatal to the Bill; but if it be carried
    that the preamble stand part of the Bill, the
    several clauses shall next be proceeded with,
    and the amendments, if any, noted for report to
    the House, care being taken that no clause be
    inserted or amendment made which shall be
    foreign to the import of the notice hereinbefore
    required.

  6. Upon a Private Bill being brought up
    and reported by the select committee, such Bill
    shall be proceeded with as in the case of Pub-
    lic Bills, a future day being appointed for the
    second reading.

  7. That all matters relating to Private
    Bills or other private business, not provided
    for by any Standing Order of the House, shall
    be regulated by Mr. Speaker as they shall arise,
    as nearly in conformity with the practice of the
    Imperial Parliament as circumstances may
    admit.

  8. A scale of fees to be fixed by Mr.
    Speaker, payable to the Clerk of the House in
    respect of the conduct of private business, shall
    be posted in the Clerk's Office, and in some
    conspicuous part of the House.

TABLE OF FEES TO BE CHARGED
UPON PRIVATE BILLS

FOR PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE.

By the Promoters of the Bill.

Description £ s. d.
On the Presentation of the Petition 1 0 0
" First Reading of the Bill... 1 0 0
" Report of Select Committee 2 0 0
" Second Reading 2 0 0
" Report of the Committee... 2 0 0
" Third Reading... 2 0 0
Passing and Assent—If not more than 1 sheet of 4 pages.................................. 3 0 0
If above, for every sheet of 4 pages at the rate of 2 0 0

Clerk attending on Committee, 15s. per diem.

By the Opponents of a Bill.

Description £ s. d.
On the Presentation of Petition against .................................... 2 0 0
If the Opponents appear by Counsel 3 0 0
" " without " 1 0 0

For Proceedings in Select Committee.

Description £ s. d.
For copies of all Proceedings and Papers, for every folio of 72 words .................................... 0 0 6
" Inspestion of any Document... 0 1 0
" Plan or Document certified by Speaker .................................... 1 0 0
" Hearing Counsel at the Bar of the House, each side.... 2 0 0
" Serving any Summons or Order ....................................... 0 10 6

General Fees.

N.B.—Travelling expenses, and all other con-
tingent expenses whatsoever relative to the
Bill, to be charged to the parties concerned.

CHARLES CLIFFORD,
Speaker.



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  • Charles Clifford, Speaker