THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 75

fit, upon the happening or performing of which the
said policy is to become void or is to be subject to,
and any such policy shall be deemed subject to such
terms and conditions so inserted or indorsed.

And lastly, in further pursuance and exercise of the
said power and authority, and with the like advice and
consent as aforesaid, I do hereby order that any revo-
cation or alteration made or effected by this Order
in Council shall not be deemed to alter or affect any
contract, deed, act, matter, or thing, which shall be
or have been duly made, executed, or done, in accord-
ance with and subject to any or either of the regu-
lations hereinbefore mentioned or referred to.

Approved in Council.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

NOTICE.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 17 of
"The Government Annuities Act, 1869," and
to the terms of an Order in Council made the
twenty-fourth day of January now instant, I do
hereby give notice, that by the said Order in Council
certain Tables for determining the value of Deferred
Annuities granted under the said Act, have been
directed to be used and adopted in lieu of certain
other like Tables directed to be used and adopted by
an Order in Council dated the 28th day of March,
1870. And I do hereby further give notice, that the
said first-mentioned Order in Council is directed to
come into operation on the first day of February next,
as therein mentioned; and that printed copies of the
said Tables can be seen and obtained at my office in
Wellington, and at the several Post Office Money
Order Offices throughout the Colony.

Dated this twenty-fifth day of January, 1872.

W. GISBORNE,
Commissioner.

Government Annuities Office,
Wellington, 26th January, 1872.

THE following Regulations under the New Zealand
Government Insurance and Annuities Acts, 1869 and
1870, now in force, are published for general infor-
mation.

W. GISBORNE.

GOVERNMENT INSURANCE REGULATIONS.

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 Regulation 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 legaly-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. The medical examination shall be conducted
    according to a form applicable to the special trans-
    action.

11. In addition to the special questions set forth
    in any such form, the Medical Examiner may put to
    the person examined any other questions which he
    may think necessary, and may report specially to
    the said Commissioner in reference thereto.

12. The answers given by the person examined to
    the special questions set forth in the form above
    referred to shall be reduced to writing by the
    Medical Examiner, and shall be read over to the
    person examined, and signed by him, and he shall
    at the same time make and sign a declaration of
    the truth of his statements at the foot of the form
    of examination, in the presence of the Medical
    Examiner.

13. The proposal and medical examination, and all
    other papers connected therewith, shall, so soon as
    the same have been duly completed, be transmitted
    by the Medical Examiner to the said Commissioner
    for examination and approval.

14. All tables of premiums for sums to be secured
    at death or otherwise shall specify the rate of pre-
    mium for first-class lives only.

15. The rate of premium for each proposal shall in
    every case be fixed by the said Commissioner, in
    proportion to the eligibility of the life proposed, as
    evidenced by the proposal and papers connected
    therewith.

16. If the said Commissioner shall elect to accept
    the proposal, he shall determine the premium or sum
    of money payable in respect of the proposed trans-
    action, and he shall forthwith cause notice thereof
    to be given to the person making the same, by post-
    ing to the address of such person, as given in the
    proposal, a notice to that effect.

17. When the person desiring to insure his life is
    an officiating minister within the meaning of "The
    Marriage Act, 1854," or any Act for the time being
    in force amending the said Act, the premium or other
    payment to be paid thenceforth by such person,
    whether he shall thereafter cease to be such officiating
    minister or not, shall be such sum consisting of an
    integral number of pence as shall be nearest to
    nineteen-twentieths of the sum which would be
    required to be paid by such person if not an
    officiating minister as aforesaid: Provided that this
    regulation shall only be applicable to insurances
    effected under the scale set forth in Table I., annexed
    to an Order in Council of the twenty-second day of
    October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy,
    or any like table which may hereafter be used or
    adopted under the provisions of the said Acts.

18. Within thirty days after the receipt of such
    notice, the proposer shall pay or cause to be paid
    the premium or sum of money payable in respect of
    the proposed transaction; and if he shall fail to do
    so, then the said proposal shall be deemed to have