Numb. 127.

DIEU ET MON DROIT

1783

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1878.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1878.

Regulations under "The Land-Tax Act, 1878."

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
seventeenth day of December, 1878.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by the seventeenth section of "The
Land-Tax Act, 1878," (in the regulations
hereafter referred to styled "the said Act,") it is
enacted among other things, that the Governor, by
Order in Council, may from time to time make, alter,
and revoke regulations not inconsistent with the
said Act, for the purposes in the said section men-
tioned:

Now, therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the said colony, do
hereby make the following regulations for the pur-
poses of the said Act: And, with the like advice
and consent, do hereby order and declare that the
said regulations shall come into operation on the first
day of January, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-nine.

REGULATIONS.

1. The valuation list referred to in section 20 of
   the said Act shall be kept in the form (No. 3) in the
   Schedule A hereto.
2. The form of public notice of the deposit of
   valuation lists, to be given pursuant to section 24 of
   the said Act, shall be given in the form in the
   Schedule B hereto.
3. The notice of valuation to be given by the
   Deputy Commissioner to every person whose name
   appears in the valuation list, as provided by section
   25 of the said Act, shall be in the form in the
   Schedule C hereto.
4. The form of objection to be given by any person
   who considers himself aggrieved by reason of the
   unfairness or incorrectness of any valuation, or by
   the insertion or incorrectness of any matter therein,
   as provided by sections 26 and 27 of the said Act,
   shall be that set forth in the Schedule D hereto.
5. The Commissioner may, by the form in the
   Schedule E hereto, request the Judge of the Assess-
   ment Court to appoint a time and place for hearing
   objections to, and claims for exemptions from, land-
   tax.
6. The notification in the Gazette, pursuant to
   section 32 of the said Act, shall be in the form in
   the Schedule F hereto.
7. The Land-Tax Register referred to in sections
   36 and 37 of the said Act shall be kept in the
   form (No. 5) of the Schedule G hereto.
8. The form of oath, pursuant to section 38 of
   the said Act, verifying the Land-Tax Register or
   duplicate shall be that in the Schedule H hereto.
9. When any person whose name is on the Land-
   Tax Register applies, under section 39, to have his
   name removed therefrom, the application shall be in
   the form in the Schedule I hereto.
10. The notice of the Deputy Commissioner's de-
    cision, pursuant to section 40 of the said Act, shall
    be in the form in the Schedule J hereto.
11. If the Deputy Commissioner declines to re-
    move the applicant's name, the applicant shall,
    if he desires to obtain a summons, pursuant to
    section 41 of the said Act, file an affidavit setting
    forth the facts on which he relies as entitling him to
    have his name removed from the Land-Tax Register.
    The Judge to whom the application is made may
    either grant or refuse to issue a summons, as he
    thinks just. If he determines to issue a summons,
    the same shall be in the form in the Schedule K
    hereto, and shall name a time and place for showing
    cause, which any Judge of the Supreme Court may
    by order enlarge from time to time. Every such
    summons, and every order enlarging the same, shall
    be served on the Deputy Commissioner of the Land-
    Tax District, by delivering at his office a copy of the
    same. If the party taking out the summons do not
    attend at the time and place appointed, he will be
    deemed to have abandoned his application, and the
    summons will be dismissed with costs. If the
    Deputy Commissioner does not appear, the applica-
    tion may, upon an affidavit of service of the sum-
    mons, be granted or refused, with or without costs.
    If the Deputy Commissioner appears, the application
    may be granted or refused, with or without costs, as
    may be just. Upon the hearing of any such sum-
    mons, the parties shall be at liberty to verify their
    respective cases in whole or in part by affidavit, but
    so that the deponent in every such affidavit shall, on
    the application of the opposite party, be subject to