Numb. 105.

2297

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1899.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1899.

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

RANFURLY, Governor.

Pursuant to and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon him by “The Old-age Pensions Act, 1898,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand doth hereby, for the purposes of that Act, make the additional regulations hereinafter set forth, and doth hereby declare that they shall be read together with the regulations made on the ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight (hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”).

ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS.

INCOME AND PROPERTY STATEMENTS.

(The clauses being numbered consecutively on from the last clause of the principal regulations.)

37. The Income and Property Statement which by section 35 of “The Old-age Pensions Act, 1898,” each pensioner is required to furnish yearly to the Deputy Registrar shall be in the form numbered 23 in the Schedule hereto, and shall, in the case of each yearly Statement, be furnished at least fourteen days before the commencement of the year—that is to say, within not more than seventeen days after the close of the income-year to which the Statement relates:

Provided that the Magistrate may authorise an extension of the time for the furnishing of the Statement, in such cases and to such extent as he thinks fit.

38. In order to facilitate the prompt furnishing of the Statements, the Registrar shall, before the close of the pension-year, cause to be forwarded to each pensioner registered in the district a circular in the form numbered 24 in the Schedule hereto, together with a blank printed form of the Statement.

39. The Statement shall be dealt with, investigated, and disposed of in the same manner, mutatis mutandis, as in the case of the pension-claim, and for that purpose the provisions of the principal regulations and the forms thereunder shall apply, with all necessary modifications:

Provided that it shall not be necessary to forward to the Deputy Registrar a copy of the minute of the Magistrate’s decision, but in lieu thereof, and in lieu also of the certificate numbered 6 in the principal regulations, the Magistrate shall forward to the Deputy Registrar a certificate in the form numbered 25 in the Schedule hereto, and the Deputy Registrar shall note the purport thereof in the Old-age Pension Register, and, after issuing the pension-certificate (if the Magistrate’s certificate shows that the pensioner is entitled thereto), forward the latter certificate to the Registrar, who shall file the same.

MAORI CLAIMANTS AND PENSIONERS.

40. Clause 27 of the principal regulations is hereby revoked, and in lieu thereof it is hereby declared that, in every case where a pension-claim or an Income and Property Statement is signed by a Maori as claimant or pensioner, there shall be indorsed thereon or subscribed thereto a certificate by a Government officer that the contents of the claim or statement were fully explained to, and appeared to be fully understood by, the Maori before he signed it.

41. In every case where the Maori claimant or pensioner holds or enjoys any customary rights or any interest in any land, whether under defined legal title or Native custom, his pension-claim and Income and Property Statement shall have annexed or subscribed thereto a statement setting forth, in respect of such land, the following particulars:—

(1.) The name and locality of the block.

(2.) The nature and extent of the rights or interest held or claimed by him therein.

(3.) The name under which he appears in the list of owners.

Such statement may be in the form numbered 26 of the Schedule hereto, and shall be deemed to be part of the pension-claim or Income and Property Statement to which it is expressed to refer.

42. It shall be the duty of every Government officer having the requisite knowledge of the Maori language to assist Maoris in preparing their pension-claims and Income and Property Statements, and to give the aforesaid certificate without fee.

GENERAL.

43. Form No. 13 in the Schedule to the principal regulations is hereby amended by revoking the words “is now,” and substituting in lieu thereof the words “was when the instalment became due.”

SCHEDULE OF FORMS.

(The forms being numbered on consecutively from the last form under the principal regulations.)

Form 23 (Reg. 37).

Under “The Old-age Pensions Act, 1898.”

INCOME AND PROPERTY STATEMENT FOR THE INCOME-YEAR ENDING ON THE DAY OF , 1 .

I, , of , do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:—

1. I am a pensioner under the aforesaid Act pursuant to Pension-certificate No. , registered in the Old-age Pension District.

2. For the income-year ending on the day of , my income was and no more, and was derived from the following sources, viz.:—