1174 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 80

Rotorua Act under any Rating Act, or under any Act in
relation to bankrupts or insolvents, and in all proceedings in
a Magistrate’s Court, or before any Justice or Justices, the
Resident Officer, or any other officer of the Department ap-
pointed by him in writing under his hand, may represent
and act on behalf of the Department.

(2.) The Resident Officer, or such other officer, shall be re-
imbursed out of the Rotorua Town Account all damages,
costs, charges, and expenses incurred by him by reason of
anything contained in this regulation.

15. How Writs and Notices to be served.—Any summons,
    writ, or other legal proceeding, notice, or other document
    required to be served on the Department in connection with
    the management, under the Rotorua Act, of the town may be
    served by being left at the Resident Officer’s office in the
    town, or given personally to the Resident Officer or Acting
    Resident Officer.

16. Rates.—(1.) The Department may make and levy an
    annual library rate not exceeding a rate equal to one penny
    in the pound on the annual rateable value of the rateable
    property in the town.

(2.) In the event of the Department becoming a contribu-
tory local authority under the Fire Brigades Act, 1907, the
Department, for the purpose of raising the amount required
by that Act to be contributed, may make and levy an annual
rate for fire-prevention purposes, as provided by section 24
of that Act.

(3.) Each of the said rates shall be deemed to be a
"separate rate" within the meaning of the Muncipal Cor-
porations Act.

(4.) Separate accounts shall be kept of the receipts and
expenditure in connection with each of the said rates.

(5.) The Department may charge a uniform annual sani-
tation fee, recoverable as a separate rate, for the cleansing by
it of closets and privies, and such fee may be charged in
respect of each pan in such closets or privies: Provided that
the total proceeds of such fee shall not exceed a sum equal
to the proceeds of the sanitation rate authorised to be
levied by section 108 of "The Municipal Corporations Act,
1900."

17. Contracts.—(1.) Any contract (otherwise than by deed)
    entered into by the Department for any of the purposes
    of the Rotorua Act or the Municipal Corporations Act (as
    hereby modified), or for any other purpose in connection
    with the management of the town, shall be in writing signed
    by the Minister, save that contracts for any sum not exceed-
    ing twenty pounds (£20) may be in writing signed by the
    Resident Officer.

(2.) All such contracts may be varied and discharged in
the same manner respectively.

18. By-laws.—(1.) By-laws under the Municipal Corpora-
    tions Act, "The Public Health Act, 1900," or any other
    Act may be made by the Department in writing, under its
    common seal, attested by the General Manager, or Acting
    General Manager, and signed by the Minister.

(2.) Such by-laws shall come into force on a day men-
tioned therein in that behalf.

(3.) Public notice stating the purport and effect of such
by-laws and the date fixed for their coming into force, and
that the by-laws can be inspected at the Resident Officer's
office in the town, shall be given in the town fourteen days
or more before such date.

(4.) A full copy of the by-laws shall be kept deposited for
public inspection during ordinary office hours at the said
office during the said fourteen days.

(5.) All by-laws in force in the town at the date of the
coming into operation of the Rotorua Act shall as from that
date and until revoked or altered by by-laws made under
that Act be deemed to have remained and to remain in force,
modified so as to be capable of taking effect under the said
Act and these regulations, and in particular modified so that
the Department shall be deemed substituted for the Council
and the Corporation, and so that the proper officers consti-
tuted by the said Act and these regulations shall be deemed
substituted for the respective officers referred to in such
by-laws, and modified further so as not to take effect in so
far as they may be inconsistent with the said Act or these
regulations.

19. Continuance in Force of existing Valuation Lists and
    Rate-books.—All valuation lists, valuation rolls, and rate-
    books in force in the town at the commencement of the
    Rotorua Act shall as from such commencement be deemed
    to have continued and to continue in force therein until new
    valuation lists and rolls and rate-books are made for the
    town under the Rotorua Act.

20. Town not to form Part of County.—The town shall be
    deemed not to form part of any county in which it now is or
    hereafter may be situate.

21. Certain Provisions of "The Municipal Corporations
    Act, 1900," not to apply.—The Parts of and Schedules to
    "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900," mentioned below
    in the first column, the subject-matters of which are set out
    in the second column, shall, to the extent mentioned oppo-
    site thereto in the third column, not apply to the town or to
    the Department as having the management thereof.

"The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900."

Schedules.

22. Certain Provisions of the Municipal Corporations
    Amendment Acts not to apply.—The Acts mentioned in the
    first column below shall not apply to the town or to the
    Department as having the management thereof to the extent
    mentioned opposite thereto respectively in the second
    column,