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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 2

PARTITION.

REMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS.

"The Native Land Court Act, 1894."

Registrar's Office, Wellington, 7th January, 1895.

NOTICE is hereby given that the several matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written will be heard by the Native Land Court sitting at New Plymouth on the 28th day of January, 1895, or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will allow.

H. DUNBAR JOHNSON, Registrar.

[Wellington, 95-2.]
SCHEDULE.
PARTITION.

REMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS.

Rules and Regulations of the Native Appellate Court.

WHEREAS by "The Native Land Court Act, 1894," it is enacted that the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court may from time to time, with the approval of the Governor in Council, make and prescribe rules of practice and procedure and forms of proceedings in the various matters in which jurisdiction is or may be conferred on the Native Appellate Court constituted by the said Act, and for regulating the sittings of the said Appellate Court, and for fixing the fees to be paid under the said Act, and the time and mode of payment, and for enforcing payment thereof:

Now, therefore, I, George Boulflower Davy, Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, do hereby, for the purposes aforesaid, and in exercise of the power and authority in that behalf vested in me by the said Act, make and prescribe the rules and regulations following:—

RULES AND REGULATIONS.

In these rules,—"The Act" means "The Native Land Court Act, 1894"; "the Court" means the Native Appellate Court constituted by the said Act; "Registrar" means the Registrar acting in and for any district created for administrative purposes under the Act.

1. Every appointment of a sitting of the Court shall be in the form numbered 1 in the Schedule hereto. Notice of such sitting shall be given in the same manner as is prescribed by any rules or regulations for the time being in force with regard to the notification of sittings of the Native Land Court.

2. No appeal shall be set down for hearing until after the expiration of three calendar months from the date of the decision appealed from.

3. If more than one notice of appeal has been given in respect of the same decision, no such appeal shall be set down for hearing until the statement of the grounds of appeal in each case has been filed, or until the time within which such statement may be filed has elapsed.

4. The statement of grounds of appeal shall be signed by the appellants, or some or one of them, or their duly-constituted agent, and shall be attested by an officer of the Native Land Court, or by a Justice of the Peace, Postmaster, Solicitor of the Supreme Court, or licensed interpreter.

5. Every such statement signed by a Native, unless in the Maori language, must be attested by a licensed interpreter, who must certify that such statement was fully explained to the Native at the time of signing the same.

6. The order fixing amount of deposit under section 85 of the Act shall be in the form numbered 2 in the Schedule. The Registrar shall pay all moneys received by him on account of such deposits into the Law Trust Account, to be dealt with as hereinafter provided.

7. If any sum of money ordered to be deposited has not been deposited within the time limited, the Court may dismiss the appeal on the ground of such non-payment, or may deal with the matter in such other manner as to the Court shall seem fit.

8. On the hearing of an appeal, no person other than an appellant shall be entitled to appear or be heard in support thereof, or to put forward any claim contrary to the decision appealed from. The Court shall decide what persons, if any other than those signing the notice of appeal, are entitled to be regarded as appellants.

9. The person or persons signing any notice of appeal may, at any time before the hearing thereof, by notice in writing to the Registrar, and with leave of the Chief Judge, withdraw such appeal: Provided that, if it shall appear to the Chief Judge that such notice of appeal was lodged on behalf of persons other than those signing the same, he may refuse to allow such withdrawal except with consent of all persons interested.

10. Such withdrawal, if approved by the Chief Judge, shall be notified in the Gazette and Kahiti, and shall take effect as from the date of such notification.