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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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8. The said society, through their officers, rangers, inspectors, constables, or any other person duly authorized, shall have full power at any time to inspect, examine, and search for any nets, tackle, engines, boats, or any utensils or instruments used and employed for the taking of fish within the area of the said district, and to seize and appropriate all and every such nets, tackle, engines, boats, or any utensils or instruments so used and employed in contravention of these regulations, and also to seize and appropriate as aforesaid all and every fish caught and in possession of any person during the close season, or in possession of any person who cannot or does not produce at the time of catching or disposing of such fish a license under the hand of the Secretary of the said society empowering him in that behalf.

9. The moneys realized by the leasing of the lakes for the purpose of fishing therein with nets shall be placed by the Chairman of the society to the credit of a separate fund, called “The North Canterbury District Acclimatisation Fund,” and such moneys shall be devoted to the propagation, culture, and conservation of the fish in the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society’s district; and the surplus, if any, to the credit of the society from such source on the first day of November in each year shall be disposed of as the Governor in Council may deem fit.

10. It shall be the duty of the Chairman of the said society to forward to the Marine Department, on or before the tenth day of November in each year, a statement certified by the said Chairman, showing in detail the number and particulars of all licenses to net and leases granted by the society, the several amounts received and paid to the credit of the said fund, and the amounts disbursed therefrom during the year ending the thirty-first day of October previous.

11. These regulations shall not apply to that portion of Lake Ellesmere outside a radius of one mile from the middle of the Rivers Selwyn and Irwell, at the places where those rivers flow into the said lake at low-water ordinary spring-tides; and for the purposes of these regulations the mouth of the River Heathcote shall be deemed to be at the Heathcote Swing-bridge, situated on the main road between Christchurch and Sumner; and the mouth of the River Avon shall be deemed to be at the southern end of the island in that river lying opposite Section number 11212, in the Christchurch Survey District.

12. Every person committing a breach of these regulations shall, on conviction, be liable to a penalty of not less than one pound and not exceeding fifty pounds.

13. These regulations shall come into force on and from the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under “The Deeds and Instruments Registration Act, 1886.”

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fourteenth day of December, 1886.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Deeds and Instruments Registration Act, 1886” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time appoint in and for each Land and Deeds Registration District fit and proper persons as District Agents for the purposes of the said Act; and, further, that the Governor in Council may prescribe fees to be taken under the said Act, and may make such regulations in relation to the subject-matter of the said Act as may be necessary or expedient: And whereas it is expedient to make regulations under the said Act in manner following:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby, in exercise of the powers vested in him as aforesaid, make and confirm the rules and regulations following:—

1. Every appointment of a District Agent, and every revocation of such appointment, shall be notified in the Gazette, and in one or more newspapers published within the Land and Deeds Registration District; and the place specified for that purpose in such notice of appointment shall be the office of such District Agent, and shall be the place for reception of instruments under the said Act.

2. Instruments shall be received during such hours only as shall be publicly notified at the office of the District Agent, who shall have power to fix and vary such hours as may be necessary.

3. No instrument shall be received unless the amount of fees payable in respect thereof under the said Act, and under “The Deeds Registration Act, 1868,” or “The Land Transfer Act, 1885,” shall be tendered therewith by post office order payable to the Registrar of Deeds or District Land Registrar (as the case may be), who, on receipt thereof, shall cause the necessary stamps to be affixed. In places where there is no stamp office the amount of stamp duty, if forwarded with the usual requisition, may be remitted through the Registrar in like manner.

4. Persons lodging instruments under the said Act shall fill up and sign a schedule thereof in duplicate, which schedule shall on reception be compared with the instruments lodged, and if found correct shall be countersigned by the District Agent. One of such duplicates shall be forwarded with the instruments to the Registrar, and the other shall be retained and filed in the office of the District Agent.

5. Each schedule shall, when filed, be numbered in the order of its reception, and the person lodging the same shall be required to note thereon an address for service, to which all notices in respect of instruments enumerated therein shall be addressed and sent.

6. The District Agent shall give a receipt for every instrument lodged with him, which receipt shall be given up on return of the instrument, and shall, if required, be presented upon any interim application with reference thereto.

7. All instruments lodged as aforesaid shall be forwarded by the District Agent to the Registrar by the first opportunity thereafter, and the receipt thereof shall be acknowledged by the Registrar.

8. Before transmission thereof the District Agent shall stamp each instrument with a seal denoting the Agency, and shall further identify such instrument by noting thereon the number of the Schedule forwarded therewith, and a letter by which such instrument may be distinguished in subsequent references thereto.

9. The District Agent shall, as far as possible, satisfy himself at the time of reception that all instruments presented are in due form and order; but such reception shall not preclude the Registrar from making any requisition which he may deem necessary.

10. Instruments forwarded as aforesaid shall (if otherwise in order) be registered notwithstanding any deficiency in fees; but the instrument to which such deficiency relates, and all certificates of title surrendered therewith or issued thereon, shall be retained by the Registrar until the fees are fully paid.

11. All requisitions in respect of instruments forwarded as aforesaid shall be made by the Registrar through the District Agent, who shall without delay notify the same at the address for service: Provided that the Registrar may in any case, if it shall in his opinion be necessary or expedient, require personal attendance by the person interested, or his agent, to give or receive any explanation required.

12. Instruments forwarded through a District Agent shall, when registered, and when all fees and stamp duties have been duly paid, be returned to such agent for delivery to the person or firm by whom or in whose name the same were lodged, or in such other manner as the Registrar shall direct. Any registered instrument may be forwarded for delivery through a District Agent at the request of the person entitled.

13. The following fees shall be taken under the said Act in respect of each instrument, and shall be payable to the Registrar of Deeds or District Land Registrar, subject to such apportionment as the Auditor-General shall direct:—

Reception of instrument .. .. 2 0
Return of instrument .. .. 1 0
Comparing and certifying recorded copy 2 0
in deeds register

14. The regulations under “The Stamp Act, 1882,” as to payment of fees by stamps shall apply to fees collected under these regulations so far as is consistent herewith.

15. Subject as aforesaid, the forms and practice under these regulations shall be such as the Registrar-General of Land and Deeds shall direct.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Borough of Port Chalmers to be subject to Provisions of “The Public Bodies’ Leaseholds Act, 1886.”

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fourteenth day of December, 1886.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section three of “The Public Bodies’ Leaseholds Act, 1886” (hereinafter termed “the