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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

STANDING ORDERS OF THE LEGIS-
LATIVE COUNCIL AND OF THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
RELATIVE TO PRIVATE BILLS.

ANALYSIS.

2. Interpretation.

I.—APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES ON PRIVATE
BILLS.
3. Joint Committee on Private Bills.
4. Joint Committee on Standing Orders.
5. Committee of Selection.
6. Committees on opposed Private Bills.
7. Committees on unopposed Private Bills.
8. Quorum.
9. Ministers not eligible.

II.—CLASSES OF PRIVATE BILLS.
10. Private Bills divided into classes.
11. Bills, where to be initiated.

III.—STANDING ORDERS: COMPLIANCE WITH WHICH
IS TO BE PROVED BEFORE JOINT COMMITTEE ON
STANDING ORDERS.
12. Compliance with Standing Orders.

1. Notices by Advertisement.

2. Subject of Notices.

3. Notices to contain name of Township.

4. Notices, Cemeteries, Gas Works, &c.

5. Notice of intention to divert Water.

6. Letters Patent. Name of Invention to be pre-
   fixed.

7. Publication of Notices.

8. Notices and Applications to Owners, Lessees, and
   Occupiers of Lands and Houses.

9. Application to Owners, &c.

10. Service of Application.

11. Evidence of Application.

12. Lists of Owners, &c.

13. Notice to Owners, &c. Trust properties.

14. Notice to Owners, &c. (Burial Grounds and Gas
    Works.)

15. Notice to Owners, &c., of relinquishment of Works.

16. Service and Evidence of Application.

17. Time for serving Notices.

18. Documents required to be deposited, and the times
    and places of deposit.

19. Plans, Books of Reference, and Sections.

20. Registrars to endorse Memorial on Plans, &c.

21. Plans, &c., of Tidal Lands, with Colonial Secre-
    tary.

22. Deposit of Plans, &c., to be made with Colonial
    Secretary, if Crown Lands affected.

23. Deposit of Plans, &c., in Private Bill office.

24. Gazette Notices to be deposited with Plans, &c.

25. Deposits within fourteen days after the commence-
    ment of Session.

26. Petition for Bill, with Agent's Declaration and
    Bill, to be deposited in Private Bill Office.

27. Declaration of Agent.

28. Deposit of Bills in office of Colonial Secretary.

29. Deposit of Estimates, &c.

30. Documents to be deposited in Private Bill Office
    in regard to Joint Stock Companies.

31. Time for making Deposits.

32. Forms, in which Plans, Books of Reference, Sections
    and cross Sections shall be prepared.

33. Description of Plans.---Lands within deviation to
    be in Plan.

34. CANALS, &C.-Plans to describe Brooks, &c., to
    be diverted.

35. RAILWAYS.-Distances to be marked in miles,
    furlongs, &c..

36. Diversion of Roads, &c.

37. Book of Reference.

38. Contents of Book of Reference.

39. Sections.

40. Scale of Section.

41. RIVERS.-Section to specify level of both banks.

42. RAILWAYS.-Sections.

43. Vertical Measures to be marked with change of
    Gradient.

44. Height of Railway over, or depth under surface of
    roads, &c., to be marked.

45. Cross Sections of Canals, Roads, &c., crossed by
    Railway when level or rate of inclination al-
    tered.

46. Embankments and Cuttings.

47. Tunnelling and Viaduct to be marked.

48. Estimates and Declaration in certain cases.

49. Estimates to be made.

50. Declaration in certain cases.

51. Cases wherein Declaration and Estimate of Rates
    may be deposited.

IV.—PROCEEDINGS OF COMMITTEES.

8. Joint Committee on Standing Orders.

9. List of Petitions to be posted in Lobby.

10. When Examination to commence.

11. Clerk to give Notice of Examination.

12. Memorial complaining of noncompliance with
    Standing Orders.

13. Affidavits, &c., to be admitted in proof.

14. Chairman to endorse Petition and Report.

15. Petitions for additional provision, &c.

16. Chairman to report whether Committee are of
    opinion that Standing Orders should be dis-
    pensed with.

17. Petitions to dispense with Standing Orders.

18. Petitions for re-insertion of petition.

19. Amendment on consideration of Bill.

20. Proceedings of and in relation to Chairman of Com-
    mittees.

21. Chairman may report special circumstances, &c.

22. Clauses or Amendments to be submitted to Chair-
    man of Committees.

23. Amendments of other House to be laid before
    Chairman.

24. Proceedings of the Committee of Selection.

25. Printed copies of Bills to be laid before Com-
    mittee of Selection.

26. Committee to group Bills.

27. Committee to fix first meeting of Committee on
    Merits.

28. What Bills to be considered unopposed.

29. Constitution of Committee on opposed Private
    Bills.

30. Constitution of Committee on unopposed Private
    Bills.

31. Committee of Selection to give notice to members.

32. Members returning no answer to be reported.

33. Substitution of Members.

34. Committee may send for persons, &c.

35. Proceedings of Committees on opposed Bills.

36. Declaration of Members.

37. Quorum to be always present.

38. Members not to absent themselves.

39. In case of Chairman's absence.

40. Proceedings to be suspended, if Quorum not pre-
    sent.

41. Absent Members to be reported.

42. Absence of Quorum by death or otherwise to be
    reported.

43. Questions to be decided by Majority.

44. Order in which Bills are to be considered, if a
    group.

45. Adjournment to be specially reported.

46. Petition against Bill to specify grounds of objection.

47. When Petition against Bill to be presented.

48. Competition a locus standi.

49. In what cases Shareholders are to be heard.

50. In what cases owners of Railways to be heard.

51. Municipal Authorities and inhabitants of towns, &c.

52. When opposed Bills may be treated as unopposed.

53. Proceedings of and in relation to Committees on
    Bills, whether opposed or unopposed.

54. Bill to be laid before each Member.

55. Local Members not to vote.