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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 9

6. The electoral rolls, or copies thereof, shall be kept open to public inspection at all reasonable times at the office of the Returning Officer.

7. Any person possessing the necessary qualification for enrolment on any roll may make and forward or deliver to the Returning Officer a claim for enrolment in the form or to the effect following :—

CLAIM for Enrolment as Elector of the Victoria College.
(1.) Claimant: [Set out the full name and address of the claimant, thus—A.B., of Wellington, or as the case may be.]
(2.) Qualification: [Set out the qualification, thus—Member of the Legislative Council, resident at , within the Provincial District, or as the case may be.]
(3.) Roll in respect whereof this claim is made: [Set out name of roll, thus—Parliamentary electoral roll, or as the case may be.]

The claimant hereby claims to be entered on the above-mentioned roll as an elector of the Victoria College.

Dated at , this day of , 18.
[Signature of the claimant.]

To the Returning Officer of the Victoria College.

8. Any person who is entered on any electoral roll, and possesses the necessary qualification in respect of any other electoral roll, may make and forward or deliver to the Returning Officer a claim for transfer from the first to the secondly-mentioned roll; and on receipt of such claim the Returning Officer, if satisfied that the claimant possesses the necessary qualification, shall transfer his name accordingly.

9. Claims for transfer shall be in the form or to the effect following :—

THE VICTORIA COLLEGE.—Claim for Transfer.
(1.) Claimant: [Set out full name and address of claimant.]
(2.) Roll on which he is at present entered: [Set out name of roll, thus—Graduates’ electoral roll, or as the case may be.]
(3.) Roll to which he claims to be transferred: [Set out name of roll, thus—Teachers’ electoral roll, or as the case may be.]
(4.) Qualification by virtue whereof he claims to be transferred: [Set out qualification, thus—Holder of a certificate under “The Education Act, 1877,” and resident at (place), within the ____ Provincial District, or as the case may be.]

The claimant hereby claims to be transferred from the first-mentioned to the secondly-mentioned roll, as above.

Dated at , this day of , 18.
[Signature of the claimant.]

To the Returning Officer of the Victoria College.

10. Any person may, by notice under his hand delivered or posted to the Returning Officer, object to any electoral roll on the grounds,—
    (1.) That any person whose name is on the roll does not possess the necessary qualification; or
    (2.) That any person whose name is not on the roll possesses the necessary qualification, and is entitled to have his name entered thereon.

11. Forthwith after receipt of any such objection the Returning Officer shall inquire into and dispose of the same.

12. Any person aggrieved by any decision or act of the Returning Officer relating to any roll may appeal therefrom by notice under his hand addressed in the case of the first election to the Visitor, and in the case of any subsequent election to the Council.

13. The notice of appeal shall be in the form or to the effect following :—

THE VICTORIA COLLEGE.—Notice of Appeal.

Take notice that I [Full name, address, and electoral qualification of appellant] hereby appeal against the following decision or act of the Returning Officer in relation to the [Name of roll] electoral roll :—
[Set out shortly but clearly the decision or act appealed against, and the grounds of the appeal.]

Dated at , this day of , 18.
[Signature of appellant.]

To the Visitor [or the Council, as the case may be].

14. Every such appeal shall, as soon as practicable, be heard and determined by the Visitor or the Council, as the case may be; and the Returning Officer shall amend the roll in accordance with the result of the appeal.

15. The foregoing clauses of these regulations shall be subject to the provision that no alteration shall be made in any roll whilst it is closed, and the roll relating to any election shall be closed at 5 o’clock in the afternoon of the fourteenth day before the day on which the election is to be held, and shall continue closed until the election is completed.

16. Every ordinary election shall be held on the second Monday in April, and the first ordinary election shall be held on the second Monday in April, 1898. The election for the purpose of filling any casual vacancy shall be held on such day as the Council appoints, being not earlier than the eighteenth nor later than the twentieth day after such vacancy occurs.

17. The Returning Officer shall by advertisement publicly notify in respect of each election,—
    (1.) The day on which the election will be held, and the hour at which the poll will be closed;
    (2.) The day and hour when every roll relating to the election will be closed, being in every case 5 o’clock in the afternoon of the fourteenth day before the day on which the election is to be held;
    (3.) The day and hour when the nominations will close;
    (4.) The respective classes of electors entitled to vote, and the number of candidates for whom each such class is entitled to vote;
    (5.) The total number of candidates to be elected.

18. Such advertisement shall be published in not less than three issues of a newspaper published in each of the Wellington, Nelson, Westland, Marlborough, Hawke’s Bay, and Taranaki Provincial Districts; and the last issue shall appear not later than the sixth day next preceding the day on which the election is to be held.

19. Every candidate shall be nominated in writing by one or more electors entitled to vote for his election.

20. The nomination-paper may comprise any number of candidates not exceeding the number to be elected by the electors belonging to the same class as the nominating elector.

21. Every nomination-paper shall be in the form or to the effect following :—

THE VICTORIA COLLEGE.—Nomination-paper.

A.B. [or as the case may be], being an elector duly entered on the parliamentary [or as the case may be] electoral roll of the Victoria College, hereby nominates [Set out full name and address of each candidate the elector wishes to nominate] as [a] candidate[s] for election to the Council by the electors on the aforesaid roll at the election to be held on the day of , 18____.

Dated at , this day of , 18.
[Signature of the nominator.]

Candidate’s Consent, to be subscribed at Foot of Nomination-paper.

I hereby consent to my nomination.
[Signature of the candidate nominated.]

22. If the nomination-paper does not bear the written consent of the candidate nominated, such consent may be given by him to the Returning Officer before the nominations are closed, and every nomination-paper shall be void in so far as concerns any candidate whose consent is not duly given as aforesaid.

23. Nomination-papers may be signed in the name and on behalf of the Professorial Board by the chairman or any two members thereof.

24. Nominations shall close at noon of the seventh day before the day of the election.

25. Forthwith after the nominations are closed, and on the same day, the Returning Officer shall prepare and post to each elector, at his address as appearing on the roll of electors entitled to vote, a printed voting-paper containing in alphabetical order of surnames a printed list of all the duly-nominated candidates for whom such elector is entitled to vote; and such voting-paper shall be in the form or to the effect following :—

VOTING-PAPER for Use at Election to be held on the Day of , 18, of Member[s] of the Council of the Victoria College, by the Electors on the [Set out name of roll, thus—Parliamentary, or as the case may be] Roll.

Candidates.

[Set out in alphabetical order of surnames the full name of every duly-nominated candidate.]

Directions.

The number of candidates to be elected is [Specify the number].

The voter must draw a line through the name of every candidate for whom he does not intend to vote, and the number of candidates whose names are left uncancelled must not exceed the total number of candidates for whom the voter is entitled to vote.

This voting-paper must be signed by the voter and enclosed in a sealed envelope, and, if posted to the Returning Officer, must be posted on or before the day of the election, or, if delivered to him, must be delivered before the day of the election, or not later than 5 o’clock in the afternoon of that day.

The envelope is to be addressed, “The Returning Officer for the Victoria College Council Election,” at his office in Wellington.