Numb. 37. 509

DIEU ET MON DROIT
SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1878.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1878.

Regulations under the "Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1876."

(L.S.) NORMANBY, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

BY virtue of the powers vested in me by "The
Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1876," I, George Augus-
tus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim
and declare that in any district now or from time to
time hereafter constituted under the provisions of
"The Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1876," and in which
"The Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876," has
or shall be brought into force, the following regula-
tions and none other shall have effect: Provided
always that any regulations heretofore in force shall
remain in force, so far as relates to anything done
or commenced, and the same may be continued and
completed thereunder.

REGULATIONS.

1. In the construction of these regulations, the
   following terms and expressions shall have the
   meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, un-
   less the context requires a different construction:--
   "The Act," means "The Rabbit Nuisance Act,
   1876."
   "Landowner" has the same meeting as is assigned
   to it by "the Act."
   "Returning Officer" means any person appointed
   or empowered to preside at or to conduct the elec-
   tions of the Trustees or Trustee of a district.
   "Trustees" mean the Trustees or Trustee for a
   district.
   "District" has the same meaning as is assigned to
   it in the Act.
   "Resident Magistrate" means the Resident Magis-
   trate having jurisdiction in the district, or if there is
   no such Resident Magistrate, or more than one, then
   such Resident Magistrate as the Governor may from
   time to time appoint to perform the duties and
   exercise the functions imposed on the Resident
   Magistrate by these regulations, and shall include
   any person acting as or fulfilling the duties of such
   Resident Magistrate.

2. As soon as conveniently may be after a new
   district is constituted, the voters' roll for first elections
   of Trustees shall be prepared by the Resident Magis-
   trate. Such roll shall be in force until the 1st day
   of March in the next following year.

3. In every district the Resident Magistrate shall,
   in every year, prepare a fresh roll, which roll shall
   be the voters' roll for such district for all elections
   between the last day of February in the year wherein
   such roll shall have been made and the first day of
   March in the next succeeding year.

4. Such rolls shall be formed by placing thereon
   the name of every landowner who, under the pro-
   visions of the Act, is entitled to vote at an election
   of Trustees.

5. The rolls so to be formed may be partly written
   and partly printed, or wholly written or printed, as
   may be most convenient, and shall be published by
   the Resident Magistrate during the first fourteen
   days of the month of February in every year, by
   affixing the same to the outer door of the Resident
   Magistrate's Courthouse, if there be one in the
   district, or, if there be no such Courthouse, then in
   or on some other public or conspicuous place in such
   district; but publication shall not be necessary in
   the case of the roll prepared for the first election
   pursuant to the Act.

6. During such fourteen days it shall be lawful for
   the Resident Magistrate, if it be established that the
   name of any person entitled to vote in the election
   of Trustees has been omitted from or erroneously
   inserted on such roll, to place on such roll the name
   so omitted, or to strike out the name so erroneously
   inserted on such roll.

7. The Resident Magistrate shall sign the roll for
   the first elections, and every subsequent roll when so
   amended. When so signed such roll shall be con-
   clusive evidence that the persons whose names are on
   such roll, and no others, are the persons entitled to
   vote in the election of Trustees for the district.

8. If the Resident Magistrate is absent from the
   district, then the roll shall be signed by the Clerk to
   such Resident Magistrate; and such rolls so signed
   as aforesaid shall be the voters' rolls to be used
   respectively at the election of the Trustees.