Num. 75.

2093

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1903.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1903.

Regulations under “The Christchurch Tramways District Act, 1902,” and “The Christchurch Tramways District Act 1902 Amendment Act, 1903.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of September, 1903.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon him by “The Christchurch Tramways District Act, 1902” (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Act”), and “The Christchurch Tramways District Act 1902 Amendment Act, 1903,” and of all other powers enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the consent and advice of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby make the following regulations for the purposes of the said Acts:—

REGULATIONS.

ELECTORS’ LISTS AND ROLLS.

1. The Secretary of the Christchurch Tramway Board shall, on or before the 21st day of September, 1903, make out for the Sub-district of Riccarton-Sockburn, as defined in section 2 of the said amending Act, a list of the electors as defined in section 6 of the principal Act.

2. Every such list shall be prepared in the form and shall contain the particulars specified in the First Schedule hereto.

3. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to make every such list as complete as possible, and for that purpose he shall place thereon the name—

(a.) Of every person of whose qualification or qualifications as an elector he is satisfied; and also

(b.) Of every person who makes and delivers or transmits to him at his office a claim for enrolment as next hereinafter prescribed.

4. Every claim for enrolment shall be in the form or to the effect set forth in the Second Schedule hereto, and the claimant’s signature shall be attested by a Justice of the Peace, or a Postmaster, or a Minister of religion, or an elector of the district, or the Secretary of the Board, or the Clerk of any local authority.

5. It shall be the duty of the Board and of the Secretary to keep at the office of the Board a supply of blank printed claim-forms for the proper use of claimants for the purposes aforesaid.

6. Names appearing on the sub-district electoral roll in respect of a freehold or rating qualification for any year shall be continued on the sub-district list of electors for the succeeding year, except in the case of persons who are known to the Secretary to have died or to have lost their qualification; and it shall be his duty to report in writing to the Board all names thus omitted, and the reasons of the omissions.

7. The Secretary shall keep the said sub-district electors’ list in his office, and allow it to be inspected without fee by all persons interested therein during office hours until the 25th day of September, 1903, and he shall as soon as possible after the said list has been prepared publicly notify that such list is ready for inspection at his office, and of the time within which and the place at which objections must be lodged.

8. All objections under section 7 of the said principal Act must be in writing under the hand of the objector, in the form of the Third Schedule hereto, and must be addressed to the Secretary and delivered at his office on or before the 30th day of September, 1903.

9. The Secretary shall make and sign a list all such objections in the form of the Fourth Schedule hereto, and shall keep such list in his office, and allow it to be inspected by any person interested therein during office hours from the 1st to the 5th day of October, 1903.

10. The Board shall amend the sub-district electors’ list by correcting every error set forth in every such objection, and proved to the satisfaction of the Board to exist therein; and the Chairman of the Board shall initial every alteration so made.

11. At a sitting of the Board, to be held not later than the 8th day of October, 1903, and of which previous notice shall be given in three consecutive issues of a newspaper circulating in the district, the Chairman and not less than two other members of the Board shall sign the said sub-district electors’ list as amended, and shall certify thereon to its being correct; and the electors’ list so amended and certified shall thereupon come into force as and shall be the Christchurch Tramways District Electoral Roll for the Sub-district of Riccarton-Sockburn, and such electoral roll shall continue in force until a new electoral roll comes into force in like manner. In the notice and advertisement convening such meetings of the Board the time and place fixed for lodging appeals to the Stipendiary Magistrate shall also be stated.

12. A copy of the said sub-district electors’ list and of all its supplements, and also the original manuscript roll with all its amendments and corrections, shall be kept open for public inspection at the office of the Secretary during office hours without fee.

13. For the purpose of amending the sub-district electors’ list or roll by the addition of new names after such sub-district electors’ list has become the sub-district electors’ roll, supplementary sub-district electors’ lists may from time