✨ Old-age Pensions Payment Procedures
June 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1733
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Paying officers must not allow any qualifying remarks or any alterations to be made in the residential certificate. If the payee is unable, owing to conscientious scruples, to sign the certificate as printed, payment of the instalment must be refused.
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Alterations in the particulars contained in agents’ warrants must be initialled by the issuing Magistrate.
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The marks of payees and the signatures of Maoris must be witnessed by a European other than the paying officer.
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Instalments are payable for a period of one calendar month after the due date—thus, an instalment due on the 1st January is payable up to and including the 1st February. (For special payments, see Rule 1019.)
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When the first of the month falls on a Sunday or a holiday, the calendar month expiring on that day may be deemed to extend to the first business day thereafter.
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After the expiry of this period all unpaid advices must be withdrawn from issue and dealt with as directed in Rule 1025. The Postmaster must not under any circumstances make payments thereafter without special authority.
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Claimants for payments after the expiry of the calendar month should be instructed to communicate with the Deputy Registrar for the district, who has the necessary forms to deal with such cases.
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With respect to the identification of applicants for payment, the Act provides that “The Postmaster may, if he thinks fit, require the applicant for payment to prove his identity, but shall not be bound so to do, and may accept the production of the pension-certificate or warrant to which the instalment relates as sufficient evidence that the person producing the same is the person entitled to payment.” Postmasters are therefore empowered to require proof of identity if there is reason to doubt that the applicant is the lawful holder of the certificate. A Maori applicant, when not personally known to the paying officer, must in every case be identified by a European of repute known to the paying officer.
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Pensioners residing in outlying districts who desire payment to be made through the medium of a non-money-order office must apply to the Postmaster of that office within seven days of the due date of the next instalment. The Postmaster will forward the application (Acct. Form 362), indorsed “Identity satisfactory,” to the Chief Postmaster, who on receipt thereof will instruct the Postmaster at the paying money-order office to forward the advice each month to the office named in the application. The Postmaster at the non-money-order office will obtain payee’s signature to the advice, and return it, together with the certificate (and, if an agent, the warrant also), to the
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🏥 Health & Social WelfareOld-age pensions, Payment regulations, Agent payments, Warrants, Postmaster duties, Magistrate warrants, Stamp duty, Non-collection procedures