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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1870.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At Wellington, this twenty-second day of October,
1870.

Present :

THE HONORABLE DONALD MCLEAN, NATIVE AND
DEFENCE MINISTER, PRESIDING, AND MEMBERS
OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Government Annuities Act,
1869," and "The New Zealand Government
Insurance and Annuities Act, 1870," the Governor
in Council is empowered from time to time to make
any Regulations for carrying the said Acts into effect,
and any such Regulations from time to time to
alter, amend, and revoke:

And whereas by an Order in Council bearing date
the twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy, made under the pro-
visions of "The Government Annuities Act, 1869,"
certain Regulations contained in the Schedule to the
said Order in Council were made and ordained:

And whereas it is expedient to revoke the said
Regulations and to make fresh Regulations in lieu
thereof:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise
and pursuance of the power and authority vested in
me by the said Acts, and by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the said Colony,
do hereby revoke all existing Regulations made under
the said Acts, or either of them, except the Regula-
tions made and issued by Order in Council of the
twenty-eighth day of March, 1870, and published in
the New Zealand Gazette, No. 22, p. 191; but this
revocation shall not be deemed to alter or affect any
contract which shall be or shall have been duly made
in accordance with and subject to such revoked Regu-
lations.

In lieu of the said Regulations, so revoked as afore-
said, I do, with such advice and consent as aforesaid,
make and ordain the following Regulations, that is to
say:-

1. The Government Annuities Commissioner, ap-
   pointed and acting under the provisions of the said
   Acts, and who throughout these Regulations is
   termed "the said Commissioner," may from time to
   time appoint persons to receive proposals for In-
   surance of Lives or the grant of Endowments or
   Annuities, and to receive and pay moneys under the
   said Acts, and such appointments may from time to
   time revoke or alter.

2. Every person who may be so appointed is,
   throughout these Regulations, termed "the Officer."

3. The Postmaster at any Post Office, whether the
   same shall be a Money Order Office or not, may be
   appointed by the said Commissioner as the Officer
   for all or any one or more of the purposes mentioned
   in Regulations No. 1.

4. The Officer appointed in any place as aforesaid
   may receive proposals for any transaction from time
   to time intended to be effected under the said Acts
   or either of them, and shall in respect thereof strictly
   conform to these Regulations.

5. Any person desiring to effect any such trans-
   action shall make his proposal for the same in the
   form applicable thereto.

6. Blank forms of proposal shall, on application to
   the Officer acting in any place, be supplied to the
   applicant free of charge.

7. The person making any proposal shall, at the
   time of delivering the same to the Officer, sign and
   make the declaration at the foot thereof in the pre-
   sence of the Officer.

8. The Officer to whom any proposal has been
   delivered may either forthwith direct that any person
   upon the contingency of whose life the particular
   transaction is to be dependent shall present himself
   for medical examination by a legally-qualified Medical
   Practitioner appointed by the Governor for the pur-
   pose of such examination, or may in the first instance
   refer such proposal to the said Commissioner.

9. The said Commissioner may in any case direct
   such medical examination to be made.

10. In respect of each person to be so examined
    there shall forthwith be paid by the Proposer the
    sum of one guinea as a deposit.