Num. 89.

1979

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1898.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1898.

Regulations under “The Old-age Pensions Act, 1898.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

PURSUANT to and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred on him by “The Old-age Pensions Act, 1898” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand doth hereby, for the purposes of the said Act, make the following regulations, that is to say:—

PENSION-CLAIMS AND MATTERS RELATING THERETO.

1. The pension-claim shall be in the form numbered 1 in the Schedule hereto.

2. The Pension-claim Register shall be in the form numbered 2 in the Schedule hereto.

3. The Deputy Registrar shall not file or record in the Register any pension-claim which is not made on the printed form, or which on its face discloses the fact that the claimant resides in another old-age pension district; but in the former case he shall return it to the claimant, together with a notice in the form numbered 3 in the Schedule hereto, and in the latter case he shall forward it to the Deputy Registrar for the district in which the claimant resides, and notify the claimant in the form numbered 4 in the Schedule hereto.

4. The Deputy Registrar shall, in respect of all claims dealt with by him under the last-preceding clause of these regulations, enter in a book to be kept for that purpose a memorandum of the mode in which he has dealt with them.

5. The Deputy Registrar, after filing the pension-claim, and recording it in the Register, shall forthwith note thereon the name of the old-age pension district and the registered number of the claim, and forward it to the Stipendiary Magistrate presiding at the Court held at the place, within the old-age pension district, which is nearest to the residence of the claimant.

6. Under instructions from the Stipendiary Magistrate, the Clerk of the Court shall send to the claimant a notice of the time and place at which he may attend to support his claim. Such notice shall be in the form numbered 5 in the Schedule hereto.

7. The pension-claim, with a minute of the Stipendiary Magistrate’s decision thereon, shall be filed in the Court, and a copy of such minute shall be forwarded to the Deputy Registrar, who shall note the purport thereof in the Pension-claim Register.

8. If the Stipendiary Magistrate’s decision is that the claim is rejected, such minute shall specify all the material points which he finds to be respectively proved, disproved, and not proved.

9. If the Stipendiary Magistrate’s decision is that the claim is established, he shall fix the rate of the first year’s pension, and forward to the Deputy Registrar a certificate thereof, in the form numbered 6 in the Schedule hereto.

10. Forthwith upon receipt of the Stipendiary Magistrate’s certificate the Deputy Registrar shall note the purport thereof in the Pension-claim Register, and issue the pension-certificate in accordance therewith, and then forward the Stipendiary Magistrate’s certificate to the Registrar, who shall file the same.

INVESTIGATION OF PENSION-CLAIMS.

11. In order to facilitate the Stipendiary Magistrate’s investigation of pension-claims the following provisions shall apply:—

(1.) The Stipendiary Magistrate may authorise the Deputy Registrar or any other fit person to inquire into the accuracy or otherwise of the matters of fact set forth in the claim.

(2.) For the purposes of such inquiry the person so appointed shall have free access to—

(a.) The registers of the Land Transfer and Deeds Registration Offices for the purpose of searching title to land; and also to

(b.) The records of the Supreme Court for the purpose of searching instruments registered under “The Chattels Transfer Act, 1889”; and also to

(c.) The district valuation roll under “The Government Valuation of Land Act, 1896,” for the purpose of ascertaining the particulars and valuation of landed property; and also to

(d.) All real and personal property of the claimant or pensioner, and all books, vouchers, and documents relating to such property or to his income, for the purpose of assessing the same.