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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 28

second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient that the said land should be vested in the Levels Road Board:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by his duly-appointed Deputy, Sir James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the fourth section of "The Public Reserves Act, 1881," doth hereby declare that from and after the day of the date hereof the reserves mentioned in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the inhabitants of the Levels Road District for gravel-pits, and such reserves shall be under the control and management of the Board of the said road district.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Land District of Canterbury, containing by admeasurement 8 acres, more or less, being Section No. 2440 (in red), Block IX., Pareora Survey District. Bounded on the northward by a road-line, 779.7 links; on the eastward by Section No. 21238, 782.9 links; on the south-east by Section No. 16285, 678.9 links; and on the westward by a road-line, 1564.9 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Christchurch.

All that parcel of land in the Land District of Canterbury, containing by admeasurement 5 acres and 1 perch, more or less, being Section No. 2441 (in red), Block IX., Pareora Survey District. Bounded on the north-westward by Section No. 19468, 817.1 links; on the eastward by a road-line, 791.2 links; on the southward by Section No. 24056, 721.4 links; and on the south-westward by Section No. 31521, 511.2 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Christchurch.

R. H. GOVETT,

Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under "The Infant Life Protection Act, 1893."

GLASGOW, Governor.

By his Deputy,

JAMES PRENDERGAST.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventh day of April, 1894.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the seventh section of "The Infant Life Protection Act, 1893," it is, among other things, enacted that the Governor in Council may at any time and from time to time make regulations for all or any of the purposes in the said Act mentioned: Now, therefore, I, James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, in the name and on behalf of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, and as his duly-appointed Deputy, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the hereinbefore-mentioned provision of "The Infant Life Protection Act, 1893," and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto for the several purposes therein mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

1. In these regulations, unless inconsistent with the context and the terms of "The Infant Life Protection Act, 1893,"—

"Inspector" means the principal officer in charge of a police-station affected by these regulations:

"The Act" means "The Infant Life Protection Act, 1893":

Generally terms and expressions used in these regulations which are similar to terms and expressions used in the said Act shall have the like meanings as are attached thereto by such Act.

2. Applications for registration may be made by any person being the bona fide occupier of a house who desires to be registered under the Act, and also that such house shall be registered for the purposes of the said Act. Every such application shall be made in the Form A hereto, and shall be lodged with the Inspector in charge of the station where the applicant resides, and which is appointed to be a station at which a register shall be kept.

3. Every such application shall contain the particulars required by the Act; and the Inspector shall, on receipt thereof, make such inquiry as appears necessary, or as he may be directed by the Commissioner, and shall report to

him. If the Commissioner is satisfied that the applicant should be registered, and that the house is suitable for the purpose, he shall direct the Inspector to issue a certificate accordingly.

4. A certificate of registration shall be in the Form B hereto. If the application be refused the Inspector shall inform the applicant accordingly.

5. A Register shall be kept under the Act at each of the under-mentioned police-stations—namely, Auckland, Napier, New Plymouth, Wellington, Greymouth, Christchurch, and Dunedin—and such register shall contain the particulars set forth in the Form C. Each register shall be kept in charge of the Inspector, who shall enter therein the particulars required by the Act and these regulations.

6. Every registration effected under the Act shall, unless cancelled under the provisions thereof, remain in force until the thirty-first day of the month of December next following the making of such registration, and no longer, unless the same be renewed.

Registrations may be renewed during the month of December in which the same expire, and all such renewed registrations shall, unless cancelled as aforesaid, remain in force for one year from the expiration of such month of December in which the same are made. An application for renewal shall be in the like form as an original application, but shall indicate that it is for a renewal.

7. No fee shall be charged or taken for the making of any registration or renewed registration effected under the Act and these regulations.

8. Houses registered under the Act shall be classified according to the floor-area available for infants, which shall be determined on the basis defined hereunder, namely,—

(a.) The floor-area of the house shall be taken to be the total internal floor-area of all the rooms of the house, the following deductions having been made—namely: (1) That of the passages and stairways, of the bathroom, of the kitchen and scullery, and of any lean-to imperfectly closed or of less height than 7ft. in any part; (2) that of any room or rooms specially set apart as sitting- or receiving-rooms, and not regularly occupied either by day or by night; (3) that of any cupboard or dresser, extending down to or within 7ft. of the floor; (4) that of any room or rooms having a smaller area than 90 square feet, or having no open chimney or flue, or having no readily open windows, or having a glazed window surface of smaller area than two-thirds of a square yard; (5) that of any room or rooms, or of portion of room or rooms, of less height than 7ft.; and (6) that of any cellar or cellars.

(b.) The floor-area available for infants, hereinafter called "the available floor-area," shall be taken to be the floor-area minus such area as is required for the other occupants of the house, including the attendant or attendants on the infants, and allowing 50 square feet as the requirement for each such occupant.

9. The classification of houses registered shall be as follows:—

(a.) Houses with available floor-area measuring 50 square feet, to receive not more than one infant;

(b.) Houses with available floor-area measuring 100 square feet, to receive not more than two infants;

(c.) Houses with available floor-area measuring 150 square feet, to receive not more than three infants;

(d.) Houses with available floor-area measuring 200 square feet, and with an outdoor-area of at least 400 square feet, to receive not more than four infants;

(e.) Houses with available floor-area measuring 275 square feet, with an outdoor-area of at least 400 square feet, to receive not more than five infants;

(f.) Houses with available floor-area measuring 350 square feet, with an outdoor-area of at least 400 square feet, to receive not more than six infants;

(g.) Houses with available floor-area exceeding 350 square feet, with an outdoor-area of at least 400 square feet, to be specially considered as to the maximum number of infants to be admitted.

10. The Commissioner, or any member of the Police Force authorised in that behalf by the Commissioner, accompanied by a legally-qualified medical practitioner, if the Commissioner or such member of the Police Force (as the case may be) thinks fit, may at all reasonable hours in the day-time inspect any house registered under the Act, and any infant or infants under the care of the occupier of such house.

11. The occupier of any house so registered shall permit the Commissioner, or any member of the Police Force so authorised as aforesaid, or any such medical practitioner, to inspect such house, or any part thereof, and the fittings and furniture thereof, at any reasonable hour in the day-time, and also shall, on being so required by the Commissioner, or any such member of the Police Force or medical practitioner, produce for his or their inspection any infant or