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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 31

2. A notification in the Gazette that any person therein named has been appointed for the purposes of the said Act shall be conclusive evidence of such appointment without any further proof; and the production by any such person of a printed copy of the Gazette containing such notification, and his statement that he is the person named therein, shall be prima facie evidence that he is authorised to act in the capacity mentioned in such notification.

3. Local Valuers may be temporarily employed by the Valuer-General at such times and on such conditions as are found necessary for the purpose of making valuations.

4. From the information obtained from the Supervising, District, or Local Valuers the Valuer-General shall cause the district valuation-rolls to be prepared, revised, or amended, as the case may be.

5. The district valuation-roll shall be in the form numbered 1 in the Schedule hereto, or to that effect.

6. After a district valuation-roll has been prepared the Valuer-General shall give to each person whose name appears thereon a notice setting forth the particulars of his valuation; and a similar notice shall be given to each person appearing on the roll whose valuation has at any time been revised or amended in accordance with the said Act.

7. The notice setting forth particulars of valuation shall be in the form numbered 2 in the Schedule hereto, or to that effect.

8. All objections to valuations are to be sent to the person named in that behalf in such notice on or previous to a day to be stated in such notice. The Valuer-General may, if he chooses, refuse to entertain any objection received after the date so named in the notice.

9. Each district valuation-roll shall after preparation or after revision be deposited for public inspection, at such place, on such days, and at such hours during the day as the Valuer-General from time to time publicly notifies.

10. Every objection shall be made in writing under the hand of the objector or his agent, in the form numbered 3 in the Schedule hereto or to that effect.

11. The Valuer-General shall consider the objections, and may make such inquiries relating thereto as he thinks fit, and if he determines that any objection should be allowed he shall alter the valuation accordingly; but if not, then such objection, if the objector so desires, shall be heard and determined by the Assessment Court.

12. Assessment Courts will sit at such convenient places as the Valuer-General from time to time determines.

13. The Valuer-General shall give not less than seven days’ public notification of the date and place of sitting of any Court.

14. (1.) The fees chargeable for supplying certified copies of the valuations appearing on the district valuation-roll shall be not less than 6d. and not more than £1 1s. in each case, as the Valuer-General determines: Provided that the fee chargeable for supplying certified copies in cases where a new valuation is necessary in order that the Valuer-General may satisfy himself that the valuation is correct shall be as follows:—
    (a.) When the valuation does not exceed £500, a fee of 10s.; when the valuation exceeds £500 but does not exceed £1,000, a fee of £1.
    (b.) And the last-mentioned fee shall be increased by 10s. for each additional £1,000 or part of £1,000 of valuation.
    (2.) The fee chargeable to any person who may require the Valuer-General to make a new valuation of such person’s property shall be the same as that chargeable under the foregoing paragraphs (a) and (b) of subclause (1) hereof.
    (3.) In the case of two or more properties or interests in properties situate in the same or contiguous local districts and belonging to the same owner, the fees prescribed under the foregoing paragraphs (a) and (b) of subclause (1) hereof, and under subclause (2) hereof, may be computed on the aggregate valuation of such properties or interests, instead of on the separate valuations.
    (4.) Nothing in this clause contained shall affect any special arrangement, whether of a general nature or relating to a particular case, which may have been or may hereafter be made between the Valuer-General and any public office or department named in clause 29 of these regulations, or any statutory public body, with reference to the amount of fee to be charged for a certified copy of a valuation or for a new valuation, or with reference to any annual contribution in lieu of fees. The amount of any fee or contribution payable pursuant to any such arrangement as aforesaid shall be in lieu of the fee or fees otherwise payable under this clause.

15. The fees prescribed in the last-preceding clause shall not be chargeable to the departments or local authorities contributing towards the cost of preparing, revising, or correcting the rolls as provided hereafter.

16. The cost of, and incidental to, the preparation, revision, or correction of the district valuation-rolls shall, in local districts where the local authorities have been supplied with valuation-rolls by the Valuer-General in terms of the said Act, be borne in equal one-third shares by the Land- and Income-tax Department, the Government Valuation of Land Department, and the aforesaid local authorities respectively, and the last-mentioned one-third share shall be apportioned between the said local authorities in such manner as the Valuer-General determines. The cost, as aforesaid, in local districts where the local authorities have not been supplied with valuation-rolls by the Valuer-General shall be borne in equal shares by the two departments above mentioned.

17. No local authority shall be called upon in any year to contribute towards such cost any sum exceeding 1s. per centum of the capital value of all the property appearing on its valuation-roll, and all additional cost (if any) shall be borne by the two departments aforesaid in equal shares.

18. Each local authority shall pay its share of such cost on receipt of demand from the Valuer-General.

19. A certificate under the hand of the Valuer-General, specifying the share of such cost payable by any local authority or department, shall be conclusive evidence thereof, and the amount specified in such certificate shall be payable on demand.

20. The Valuer-General shall keep such accounts as he deems necessary for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the said Act and these regulations.

21. In default of payment by any local authority of any costs payable to the Valuer-General, the amount thereof may be deducted from any subsidy or other money payable to it by the Crown.

22. Irrespective of the provisions of the last-preceding clause, all fees and costs payable under the said Act or the regulations from time to time in force thereunder are hereby declared to be debts due to His Majesty, and may be recovered accordingly in any Court of competent jurisdiction by the Valuer-General or any person authorised by him.

23. Any observations and directions may be noted on any form or notice as the Valuer-General thinks fit.

24. Application to the Valuer-General to make a new valuation of property shall be in the form numbered 4 in the Schedule hereto, or to that effect.

25. Application for a certified copy of an entry on the valuation-roll shall be in the form numbered 5 in the Schedule hereto, or to that effect.

26. Certified copies of entries on the valuation-roll shall be in the form numbered 6 in the Schedule hereto, or to that effect.

27. The forms of valuation-roll for local authorities rating on the capital or unimproved values shall be those numbered 7 and 8 respectively in the Schedule hereto, or to that effect.

28. Every Supervising or District Valuer appointed under the Act shall, before he undertakes his duties, take and subscribe a declaration in the form set forth and numbered 9 in the Schedule hereto.

29. The valuations appearing in the district valuation-roll shall be used for the purposes following, that is to say:—
    (a.) The assessment of duties of land-tax and otherwise under “The Land and Income Assessment Act, 1900.”
    (b.) The advances and investments on mortgage of land by or on behalf of the under-mentioned offices and departments, that is to say:—
    The Post Office,
    The Government Insurance Office,
    The Public Trust Office,
    The Government Advances to Settlers Office,
    The Commissioners of Public Debts Sinking Funds Office.
    (c.) The assessment of stamp duties under “The Stamp Act, 1882,” and duties under “The Deceased Persons’ Estates Duties Act, 1881.”
    (d.) The assessment of the capital value of property of claimants or pensioners under “The Old-age Pensions Act, 1898.”

30. The printed or stamped signature of the Valuer-General shall in all cases be sufficient, and any book, document, or writing bearing or purporting to bear his signature in writing, printing, or by stamp, shall, until the contrary is shown, be deemed to have been duly signed by him, and judicial notice shall be taken of such signature accordingly.

31. Should the Valuer-General fail to make or supply any valuation or any valuation-roll, or to do any other thing which he is required to do under the said Act, within the prescribed time, he shall, as soon as may be after the time at which such thing should have been done, perform or cause the same to be performed, and the performance of such thing as aforesaid at any other than the prescribed time shall, notwithstanding such failure, be valid and effectual.

32. These regulations shall come into force from the date when they are published in the New Zealand Gazette.

33. All regulations heretofore made under the said Act are hereby repealed: Provided that such repeal shall not affect the validity of any Act, matter, or thing done or to be done, or any charges made, in accordance with the said regulations.