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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(b.) The number of his pension-certificate;
(c.) The amount of his instalment applied for,
being in every case one instalment, and no more;
(d.) The cost and period of his maintenance or
relief, such period in no case commencing earlier
than one calendar month before the day on which
the application is made, and in no case com-
prising any period prior to the grant of the
pension.

(2.) In token of the pensioner's consent to the applica-
tion his pension-certificate shall be produced to
the Magistrate with the application.

(3.) The warrant shall be in the form numbered 16 in
the Schedule hereto, and shall be subscribed to or
indorsed on the application.

(4.) The warrant may relate to more pensioners than
one, but shall in each case relate only to one in-
stalment, and shall be delivered up to the Post-
master by the payee when receiving payment of
the instalments to which it relates.

(5.) If any dispute arises between the pensioner and the
institution as to the proper disposal of the instal-
ment, the question shall be decided in a summary
way by a Magistrate or any two Justices.

24. With respect to warrants under section 44 of the prin-
    cipal Act, authorising payment of instalments of a pension
    to any clergyman, Justice, or other reputable person for the
    benefit of the pensioner, the following provisions shall
    apply:—

(1.) The application for the warrant shall be in the
form numbered 17 in the Schedule hereto.

(2.) The applicant may be the pensioner, the proposed
payee, or any other reputable person competent
to speak to the facts.

(3.) If the applicant is other than the proposed payee
the application shall bear the proposed payee's
consent in writing.

(4.) If the applicant is other than the pensioner the
application shall not be dealt with by the Magis-
trate unless it bears the pensioner's consent in
writing, or the Magistrate is satisfied that the
pensioner knows of the intended application, and
has had reasonable opportunity of objecting
thereto.

(5.) The warrant shall be in the form numbered 18 in
the Schedule hereto, and shall continue in force
until cancelled by order of a Magistrate on good
cause shown.

(6.) The Magistrate by whom the warrant is signed shall
transmit it to the Deputy Registrar, who shall
forthwith record it in the Old-age Pension Regis-
ter, and then issue it to the person entitled.

25. Whenever any instalment is payable under a warrant,
    or under the order of a Court, the pension-certificate shall
    be produced at the time of payment by the pensioner or
    other payee, together with the warrant or order, except
    where the warrant or order otherwise provides.

26. If the pensioner, or other the person entitled to
    receive payment of the instalments of a pension, desires that
    the office of payment be changed, he shall make application,
    in the form numbered 19 in the Schedule hereto, to the
    Deputy Registrar for the old-age pension district in which the
    pension-certificate is registered, and shall also produce to the
    Deputy Registrar the certificate, warrant, or order entitling
    him to payment, whereupon the Deputy Registrar shall re-
    cord the change thereon, and also in the Old-age Pension
    Register, and shall also notify the Registrar by telegraph:
    Provided that the office of payment shall not be changed
    during the period elapsing between the twenty-first day of
    one month and the seventh day of the following month.

27. In the event of any instalment being paid under a
    lost pension-certificate after the issue of a duplicate, or
    under a pension-certificate during the currency of a warrant
    or order directing payment to other than the pensioner, the
    holder of such duplicate, warrant, or order shall have no
    claim against Her Majesty in respect of the instalment so
    paid.

INCOME AND PROPERTY STATEMENTS.

28. The Income and Property Statement which by sec-
    tion 35 of the principal Act each pensioner is required to
    furnish yearly to the Deputy Registrar shall be in the form
    numbered 20 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.

29. 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 regis-
    tered in the district a circular in the form numbered 21 in
    the Schedule hereto, together with a blank printed form of
    the Statement.

30. 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 pro-
    visions of these regulations and the forms thereunder relat-
    ing to the investigation of pension-claims 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 Schedule hereto, the Magistrate shall
    forward to the Deputy Registrar a certificate in the form
    numbered 22 in the Schedule hereto, and the Deputy Regis-
    trar 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.

31. In every case where a pension-claim or an Income and
    Property Statement is signed by a Maori as claimant or
    pensioner,—

(1.) 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.

(2.) The claim or Statement shall be forwarded by the
Deputy Registrar to the Registrar, who shall
send the same to the Registrar of the Native
Land Court of the district for a report.

(3.) The Registrar of the Native Land Court shall in-
dorse on such claim or Statement a certificate
that the claimant or pensioner does or does not
appear from the records of the Court to hold, or
within the previous two years to have held, any
land or interest in land.

(4.) On receipt of such certificate the Registrar shall
instruct the Deputy Registrar to proceed with
the claim in the ordinary manner.

32. 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,
    or has previously held or enjoyed any such rights or interest,
    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.

(4.) If he has had an interest in any land and has
disposed of it, he shall state the date of such
disposal, and the consideration obtained, the
terms and conditions, and the name of the person
to whom transferred.

Such statement may be in the form numbered 23 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.

33. 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.

WHERE CERTIFICATE IMPROPERLY OBTAINED.

34. Every special inquiry made under section 9 of the
    Amendment Act shall be held and disposed of in the same
    manner, mutatis mutandis, as in the case of the pension-
    claim.

GENERAL.

35. It shall be the duty of all Government officers and
    members of the Police Force to assist claimants in the pre-
    paration and investigation of their pension-claims.

36. Whenever, by order of a Court, a pension-certificate is
    cancelled, or a pension is reduced, or any instalment is made
    payable under section 49 of the principal Act to another
    person for the benefit of the pensioner, the Clerk of the Court
    shall forthwith forward to the Deputy Registrar a copy of
    the order, and the Deputy Registrar shall forthwith record
    the same in the Old-age Pension Register, and notify the
    Registrar by telegraph.

37. It shall be the duty of the secretary of every charitable
    institution to send to the Registrar, not later than the tenth
    day in the months of April, July, October, and January in
    every year, a return showing the names and addresses of all
    persons who applied for admission to such charitable insti-
    tution during the preceding three months, and who were at
    the time of their application pensioners under the principal
    Act, and showing how all such applications have been dealt
    with, and, if refused, the reason of such refusal.