Mar. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 671

County Council shall pay to the Minister of Lands a like sum, and the Bull’s Town Board shall pay to the Minister of Lands the sum of one thousand two hundred and seventy-nine pounds eight shillings and twopence. And the Minister of Lands shall provide the balance of the cost of construction of the said bridge out of moneys voted for that purpose by Parliament. Such payments shall be made by the Rangitikei County Council, by the Manawatu County Council, and by the Bull’s Town Board respectively by such instalments and at such times during the progress of the works as the Minister of Lands may request.

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SCHEDULE.

The bridge over the Rangitikei River at or near the Township of Bull’s, known as the Bull’s Bridge.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and one.

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.

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Regulations under “The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900.”

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RANFURLY, Governor.

Pursuant to and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon him by “The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900” (hereinafter called “the said Act”) His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand doth hereby repeal the regulations made under the said Act on the 5th day of November, 1900, and in lieu thereof doth hereby, for the purposes of the said Act, make the following regulations, that is to say:—

INDUSTRIAL UNIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS.

1. Application for registration as an industrial union or industrial association may be in the form numbered 1 in the Schedule hereto.

2. The certificate of registration and incorporation of an industrial union or industrial association may be in the form numbered 2 in the Schedule hereto.

3. Any industrial union or industrial association the registration whereof has been refused under section 11 of the said Act may appeal to the Court by filing in the office of the Clerk of Awards a notice, in duplicate, in the form numbered 3 in the Schedule hereto. The Clerk shall forward one copy of the notice to the Registrar, who shall transmit to the Clerk all papers in reference thereto, and thereupon the appeal shall be deemed to be before the Court.

4. The statutory declaration verifying the annual list of members and officers of an industrial union or association may be in the form numbered 4 in the Schedule hereto.

5. The application for registration of a branch office of any registered industrial union or industrial association under section 14 of the said Act may be in the form numbered 5 in the Schedule hereto.

CANCELLATION OF REGISTRATION.

6. The application for cancellation of the registration of an industrial union or industrial association under section 20 of the said Act may be in the form numbered 6 in the Schedule hereto.

INDUSTRIAL AGREEMENTS.

7. The Clerk of Awards in each district, being a Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court, shall keep in his office (being the same office as the Supreme Court Office wherein he is Deputy Registrar) a register of all industrial agreements, duplicate originals whereof are filed therein. Such duplicates shall be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are filed, and the register shall set forth the date of the agreement, and of the filing thereof, the names of the parties thereto, and of every industrial union, industrial association, or employer who, in the prescribed manner, signifies concurrence therein.

8. Such concurrence as aforesaid may be signified by filing in the same office as that in which the industrial agreement is filed a notice in the form numbered 7 in the Schedule hereto, and every notice of concurrence shall bear the same number as the industrial agreement to which it relates.

9. Such notice shall in the case of an industrial union or association be executed under seal, and in the case of an employer shall be signed by him and shall specify his address and occupation.

BOARDS OF CONCILIATION.

10. Nomination-papers, consent-papers, and voting-papers for the purpose of election of members of the Board of Conciliation may be in the forms numbered respectively 8, 9, and 10 in the Schedule hereto.

11. At any such election as aforesaid an industrial union may distribute its votes at pleasure amongst all the candidates to be elected by its division. Thus, if there be two candidates to be elected by the industrial unions of workers in a given district, a union of workers may give two votes to one candidate and none to the other.

12. Notice of any question or dispute for the decision of the Returning Officer under subsection (22) of section 38 of the said Act shall be given in writing to the Returning Officer by the party raising the same.

13. For the purpose of electing the Chairman of the Board, the members present at he meeting called for the purpose shall select to preside at that meeting one of their number, who shall have a deliberative but no casting vote. Nominations of qualified persons shall then be received from members. If there be only one person nominated, he shall be declared elected as Chairman.

14. If there be more such nominations than one, the person receiving an absolute majority of votes of the members present shall be elected. To that end the names of all the persons so nominated shall be written on a list and submitted to the vote. The name of the person receiving the smallest number of votes shall be struck out, and the remaining names shall be again submitted to the vote. This process is to be repeated until some one person receives the votes of the majority of the members present and voting, and he shall be the elected Chairman.

15. In the event of two such persons remaining on the list with an equal number of votes, and neither of them being able to obtain an absolute majority, then, when all reasonable attempts to secure an absolute majority have failed, the members of the Board shall be deemed to have failed to elect a Chairman, and the Governor shall appoint one.

SPECIAL BOARDS OF CONCILIATORS.

16. The application for the constitution of a Special Board of Conciliators may be in the form numbered 11 in the Schedule hereto.

17. Regulations 13 to 19 hereof shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to such Special Boards, and the forms thereby prescribed may be used, with such modifications as are required in each particular case.

INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES.

18. Applications for the reference of an industrial dispute for settlement to the Board (hereinafter called “a Reference”) may be in the form numbered 12 in the Schedule hereto.

19. When filing a Reference in the office of the Clerk, the applicant shall also lodge as many copies thereof as there are other parties to the dispute. The Clerk shall indorse on each copy a memorandum signed by him, setting forth the fact and date of the filing of the original, and shall then forthwith post one such copy by registered letter, addressed to each of the said other parties to the dispute.

20. All References shall be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are filed, and the Clerk shall keep a register thereof, setting forth the number of the Reference and the date of the filing thereof, together with the name of the applicant and of the other parties to the Reference.

21. All documents subsequently filed, lodged, or issued in the matter of the Reference shall bear the same number as the Reference to which they relate, and shall be intituled in the form numbered 13 in the Schedule hereto.

22. The Clerk shall convene a meeting of the Board by posting to each member a notice in the form numbered 14 in the Schedule hereto.

23. The date of such meeting shall be not sooner than seven nor later than fourteen days after the day on which the notice convening the same is posted, and the notice shall be posted within three days after the filing of the Reference.

24. The Clerk shall post by registered letter, addressed to each party to the Reference, a notice of the day, hour, and place of such meeting.

25. Such notice may be in the form numbered 15 in the Schedule hereto, and shall be posted at least three days before and exclusive of the day of meeting.

26. A party to a Reference who desires to appear by agent, or (where allowed) by solicitor or counsel, shall sign and file in the office of the Clerk a warrant in the form numbered 16 in the Schedule hereto.

27. Where all the parties to a Reference consent to the appearance of counsel or solicitor, such consent may be given in the form numbered 17 in the Schedule hereto, and the same shall be filed in the office of the Clerk.

28. The memorandum of settlement referred to in section 56 of the said Act may be in the form numbered 18 in the Schedule hereto.

29. The memorandum of consent referred to in section 57 of the said Act may be in the form numbered 19 in the Schedule hereto.