Mar. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 813

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations for the Election of Members of Harbour Boards.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of February, 1911.

Present :

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by sections seven and thirteen of the Harbours Amendment Act, 1910 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations as to the election of members of Harbour Boards by the electors of combined districts, by the owners or part owners of ships, and by the payers of harbour dues.

REGULATIONS.

ELECTIONS BY THE ELECTORS OF COMBINED DISTRICTS.

1. WHERE one or more members of a Harbour Board are to be elected by the electors of a combined district under section 7 of the said Act, the provisions of sections 5 to 39 inclusive, and of sections 45 to 54 inclusive, of the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, shall apply to the election of those members.

2. For the purposes of an election under section 7 of the said Act the Returning Officer of the principal local authority within the meaning of that section shall be the Returning Officer for the combined district; or, where there is more than one Returning Officer, the Returning Officer for the subdivision of the district in which or nearest to which the public office of that local authority is situated shall be the Returning Officer for the purposes of such election as aforesaid.

3. The several electors rolls for the districts or portions of districts included in the combined district shall together be the electoral roll for the purposes of the election; provided that every elector on those rolls shall have one vote only at the election.

4. Where there is no electors roll for any portion of a district included in a combined district, the local authority of that district shall cause to be prepared from the electors roll or rolls of the district an electors roll for that portion of the district.

5. The local authorities of the combined district shall, on or before the day fixed for nominations, supply the Returning Officer with as many copies of such electors rolls of their districts as he may require for the purposes of the election.

6. The Returning Officer shall provide such polling-booths throughout the combined district as he considers necessary, and shall appoint as many Deputy Returning Officers and poll-clerks as are required for the effective taking of the poll at every polling-booth.

7. The poll shall close throughout the combined district at the hour at which it closes in the district of the principal local authority.

8. For the purposes of such an election the term “district” as used in the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, means a combined district; and the term “local authority” means the principal local authority within the meaning of the said section 7.

ELECTIONS BY THE OWNERS OF SHIPS.

9. Where one or more members of a Harbour Board are to be elected by the owners of ships in accordance with the provisions of section 13 of the said Act, the Collector of Customs at the port or ports under the jurisdiction of that Harbour Board, on or before the 14th day of January in each year, shall forward to the Secretary to that Harbour Board a list of the names and addresses of all persons who, on the preceding 31st day of December, were registered as the owners or part owners of any ship registered at any such port.

10. Every such list shall be signed by the said Collector of Customs, and shall be certified by him to be correct.

11. The Secretary to the Harbour Board shall immediately compile a list containing the names of all persons mentioned in the several lists so forwarded to him, and the list so compiled shall constitute the roll of electors for the purpose of any election by the owners of ships held before the 31st day of December following.

12. The roll referred to in the last preceding regulation shall be open for inspection at the offices of the Harbour Board during office hours.

13. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the preceding regulations, the list of registered owners or part owners referred to in regulation 9 hereof shall, in the case of the year 1911, be forwarded to the Secretary to the Harbour Board on or before the 20th day of March of that year, in lieu of the date specified in that regulation.

ELECTIONS BY THE PAYERS OF HARBOUR DUES.

14. Where one or more members of a Harbour Board are to be elected by the payers of harbour dues generally or by the payers of any specified class of such dues, the Secretary to the Board shall, on or before the 14th day of January in each year, cause to be compiled a list or lists containing the name and address of every person, firm, or corporate body who, during the year ending the 31st day of December preceding, has paid harbour dues generally, or has paid dues of the specified class, in each case to an amount sufficient to qualify that person, firm, or corporate body to vote at the election of any such member or members.

15. For the purpose of compiling such list or lists where harbour dues are collected by a Collector of Customs or the Government Railways Department on behalf of such a Harbour Board, the said Collector and the Department shall forward to the Secretary to that Board, on or before the date aforesaid, statements certified as correct of all harbour dues collected by them during the said year, particulars as to the nature of those dues, and the names and addresses of the payers thereof.