Numb. 82.

1237

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1891.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1891.

Regulations under “The Land and Income Assessment Act, 1891.”

ONSLOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Christchurch, this thirty-first day of October, 1891.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of all powers and authorities vested in him by the tenth section of “The Land and Income Assessment Act, 1891,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the following regulations under and for the purposes of the said Act, that is to say:—

REGULATIONS.

1. These regulations shall come into force on the date when the same shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette.

2. In these regulations, unless inconsistent with the context,—

“Company” means and includes every corporate body not being a friendly society:

“Land” means and includes all lands, tenements, buildings, and hereditaments, whether corporeal or incorporeal, and also includes all chattel interests in land:

“Notice” means a notice in writing given by causing the same to be personally served on any person, or by leaving the same at his usual or last known place of abode or business in the colony, or by forwarding the same by post addressed to such usual or last known place of abode or business; and in the case of a company means a notice given by being served upon or delivered to “the public officer” of such company at the address for service given under the Act, or if there shall be no such address for service, then by serving, leaving, or forwarding the same as aforesaid at or to any office or place where the company carries on business in New Zealand:

“Owner” in respect of land means the person or company for the time being who is seised, possessed of, or entitled at law or in equity to any land, or the rents and profits thereof, or who, if the land were let to a tenant, would be entitled to receive the rents and profits thereof, whether as trustee, mortgagee in possession, or otherwise:

“Publicly notified,” “public notice,” means a notice published in some newspaper circulating in the locality where anything is required to be so notified or notice thereof to be given:

“Public officer” means the public officer of a company to be from time to time appointed for the purposes of “The Land and Income Assessment Act, 1891:”

“The Act” means “The Land and Income Assessment Act, 1891:”

“Writing” includes printing, and any matter partly written and partly printed:

And generally, wherever by the Act an interpretation is given to any word or expression, the like interpretation shall be adopted in these regulations, unless there be something in the context inconsistent therewith or repugnant thereto.

3. Every person appointed or employed under the Act shall, before he begins to act in the execution thereof, take and subscribe the oath of fidelity and secrecy hereinafter prescribed.

4. The form of oath to be taken by every such person so appointed or employed shall be that set forth and numbered 1 in the Schedule hereto.

5. A notification in the New Zealand Gazette that any person therein named has been appointed for the purposes of the Act shall be conclusive evidence of such appointment without any further proof; and the production by any such person of a printed copy of the Gazette containing such notification, and his statement that he is the person named therein, shall be prima facie evidence that he is authorised to act in the capacity mentioned in such notification.

6. Any Assessor may be appointed for such one or more districts or parts of the colony as the Commissioner thinks fit, and shall perform therein or in respect thereof all such duties as the Commissioner from time to time directs.

7. The printed or stamped signature of the Commissioner shall in all cases be sufficient, and any book, document, or writing bearing or purporting to bear his signature, either in writing, or printing, or by stamp, shall be deemed to have been duly signed by him, and judicial notice shall be taken of such signature accordingly.

8. The Commissioner shall give not less than fourteen days’ public notice of the day on or before which returns of land and mortgages of land shall be furnished or made by every person or company; and such notice shall be in the form numbered 2 in the Schedule hereto.

9. A return of land and mortgages of land shall be furnished to the Commissioner for the purposes of the Act,