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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 13

manner as provided by regulation 11 hereof shall be a supplementary district electors roll, and be deemed to be incorporated with the original district electors roll then in force.

13. Appeals to a Magistrate under section 12 of the said Act may be made as follows:—
    (a.) An objection in writing under the hand of the objector shall be lodged with the Clerk of the nearest Magistrate’s Court not later than the 22nd day of March, and a copy of that objection shall also be lodged with the Town Clerk not later than the said 22nd day of March.
    (b.) The objection may be in the form in the Third Schedule hereto, or as near thereto as may be.
    (c.) The Magistrate shall hear and determine the appeal at such convenient place and time, not being later than the 30th day of March, as he appoints, and not less than three days’ notice shall be given to the Council and to the appellant of the date so appointed.

14. A copy of the district electors roll, 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 Town Clerk during office hours without fee.

15. The roll required under section 14 of the said Act shall be prepared by striking out from the district electors roll, and from every supplementary district electors roll in force within the borough, on the fourteenth day previous to the taking of the poll for which such roll is required, the name of every person whose name appears on such rolls more than once (except in the case where that name first appears); and no other alterations shall be made in any such roll after that day until after the taking of the poll.

16. Such roll shall be authenticated in the same manner as is prescribed by regulation 11 hereof in the case of a district electors roll.

17. In case the district electors roll for any borough or ward is not, from any cause whatever, made out and completed so as to come into force at the prescribed time, the district electors roll for that borough or ward for the year preceding shall (unless and until the time for making out and completing a new roll is extended under section 368 of the said Act) be in force for the year for which a roll has not been made out and completed as aforesaid.

18. (1.) As soon as practicable after the original district electors roll or any supplementary district electors roll or combined roll comes into force, copies thereof shall (except as hereinafter provided) be printed by the Council.
    (2.) Where the total number of electors on any roll or supplementary roll does not exceed two hundred, the Council may by resolution declare that such roll or supplementary roll shall be typewritten and not printed, and the same shall be typewritten accordingly.
    (3.) The Town Clerk shall supply any person with a copy of the printed or typewritten district electors roll, together with all its printed or typewritten supplements, on payment of 1s.

19. The Town Clerk is liable to a fine not exceeding £5 in every case where he refuses, or wilfully neglects, or unreasonably delays—
    (a.) To place on the district electors list the name of any person who makes a claim for enrolment in the manner provided by paragraph (b) of regulation 2 hereof; or
    (b.) To faithfully and promptly perform any other duty imposed on him by the said Act or these regulations.

20. If the Council fails or unreasonably delays to keep at the Town Clerk’s office a supply of blank printed forms of claims for enrolment for the free use of claimants, as provided by regulation 4 hereof, or to faithfully and promptly perform any other duty imposed on it by the said Act or these regulations, every person (whether the Town Clerk or any member of the Council) who is party to or responsible for such failure or delay is severally liable to a fine not exceeding £5.

21. When a borough is first divided, or is redivided, into wards, the Town Clerk shall prepare a separate district electors roll for each ward, instead of one for the whole borough; and the Town Clerk shall forthwith make up from the district electors roll or rolls in force new district electors rolls for each such new ward, and shall place on the roll of each such ward the name of each elector who appears from the existing district electors roll to be entitled to vote therein.

22. The Town Clerk shall also in like manner make new district rolls for any ward or wards affected by any creation, abolition, or division of wards, or alteration in their boundaries.

23. Whenever any adjoining district is incorporated into a borough under section 118 of the said Act the Town Clerk shall forthwith make up from the district electors roll or rolls in force in such borough, or any ward respectively, and from the ratepayers roll in force in any such district, a new district electors roll for the borough or ward, as the case may be; and shall place on the roll for such borough or ward the name of each district elector or ratepayer who appears from such rolls respectively to be entitled to vote therein.

24. The burgess rolls made under these regulations shall, when signed by the Mayor and any two Councillors, be the district electors rolls for such borough or ward or wards, as the case may be, until new rolls are made up in accordance with the said Act and the regulations thereunder.

COLLECTORS AND ACCOUNTANTS.

25. Before any officer intrusted by the Council with the custody or control of moneys by virtue of his office enters thereon, the Council shall take such sufficient security from him for the faithful execution of his duties as it thinks fit.

26. Every person receiving any moneys belonging to or on account of the Corporation of the borough (hereinafter referred to as “a Collector”) shall, at such times as the Council directs, pay