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the complete execution of any agreement under the said Act, application in the prescribed form shall be made to the Governor by or on behalf of the purchasers for an Order in Council confirming the agreement in pursuance of the said Act: And whereas by sections eight and nine of the said Act it is further provided that upon receipt of such application the Minister of Finance shall refer the same, together with the agreement, to the Board of Land Purchase Commissioners for its report thereon, and if the Board reports that the agreement is fit and proper to be so confirmed the Governor may, if he thinks fit, by Order in Council confirm the agreement accordingly: And whereas under the provisions of the said Act an agreement, bearing date the twelfth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, has been entered into between Robert Kirkpatrick Simpson, Alexander Grant Simpson, and Robert Kirkpatrick Simpson the younger, vendors of the one part, and Amel John Klatt and Clara Isabel Klatt as tenants in common, Thomas William Nicholas Rowe and James Buchanan Rowe as tenants in common, Alexander Ross, Arthur Sylvester Jonson, Charles Alfred Long, Walter Harold Parton, and Peter McIntyre, purchasers, of the other part, for the purchase of the land therein described, and the said purchasers therein agreed to become incorporated as the Otairi Land Settlement Association: And whereas application has been made in the prescribed form for the issue of an Order in Council confirming the said agreement: And whereas the said application, together with the said agreement, was referred to the Board of Land Purchase Commissioners for its report, and the Board has reported that no roading is required in respect of the said land, and that the said agreement is fit and proper to be so confirmed:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by 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 confirm the said agreement dated the twelfth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

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

Regulations under the Local Authorities Superannuation Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this tenth day of March, 1913.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is provided by section ten of the Local Authorities Superannuation Act, 1908, that the Governor may from time to time by Order in Council make regulations, consistent with the said Act, for the administration by local authorities of the funds established by them under the said Act: And whereas it is expedient to make such regulations accordingly:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers so conferred upon him, and of all other powers enabling him in this behalf, 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; and doth hereby declare that the said regulations shall come into force on the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

1. Every local authority that establishes a fund under the said Act shall, within one month after the date when the resolution establishing the fund takes effect, cause to be sent or delivered to each of its employees entitled, in accordance with the terms of the said resolution, to become contributors to the said fund, a form of election, in the form No. 1 in the Schedule hereto.

2. Every such employee who desires and is entitled to become a contributor to the said fund shall, within the time allowed in that behalf by the special resolution or otherwise, complete the said form of election and forward the same to the Clerk or Secretary of the local authority.

3. On receipt of any such notice of election the local authority shall cause a notice, in the form No. 2 in the Schedule hereto, to be sent to the person electing to become a contributor to the fund.

4. (1.) Every person who is first permanently employed by a local authority after the date of the taking-effect of a resolution passed by that local authority establishing a superannuation fund, and who is bound as a condition of his employment to become a contributor to the fund, shall forthwith after his appointment furnish a statement in writing to the Clerk or Secretary of the local authority setting forth, to the best of his knowledge and belief, the following particulars, namely:—

(1.) His name in full;
(2.) Date of birth;
(3.) Date of appointment;
(4.) Rate of salary;
(5.) Condition (whether married or single, or widower or widow);
(6.) Date of birth of wife (if any);
(7.) Date of birth of each child (if any) living and under the age of fourteen years.

(2.) Every person who is first permanently employed by a local authority after the date of the taking-effect of a resolution establishing a superannuation fund as aforesaid, and who is entitled but not bound to become a contributor to the said fund, shall, within the time allowed in that behalf by the special resolution or otherwise, if he desires to become a contributor to the said fund, fill in and forward to the Clerk or Secretary of the local authority a form of election in the form No. 1 in the Schedule hereto.

(3.) On receipt of any such notice of election the local authority shall cause a notice, in the form No. 2 in the Schedule hereto, to be sent to the person so electing to become a contributor to the fund.

5. The local authority may, if it thinks fit, require any statement made in pursuance of the last preceding regulation or of Regulation 2 hereof to be supported by a statutory declaration, and the production of such certificates of birth or of marriage, or such other evidence, as it thinks necessary.

6. The Clerk or Secretary of every local authority establishing a superannuation fund under the said Act shall furnish to the Treasurer of that local authority a list of the names of the contributors to the fund and of their respective ages as on the date of joining the fund, and the Treasurer shall, as soon as possible after the 31st day of December in each year, furnish to the local authority a certificate to the effect that all deductions from salaries by way of contribution to the said fund in respect of the preceding year have been duly made.

7. (1.) Any contributor to the fund may, if he thinks fit, furnish to the local authority a certified copy of the certificate of his birth or of his marriage, or of the birth of any or all of his children.

(2.) Upon receipt of any such certified copy the Clerk or Secretary shall record the particulars of the same in the Register of Contributors hereinafter referred to, and the contributor or any person claiming under him shall not thereafter, except in the case of fraud, be required to produce evidence as to any such matter when any claim is made upon the fund; but evidence of the survival of the wife and children (if any) shall be required.

8. The Clerk or Secretary of the local authority shall accord to each contributor a registered number, and shall keep a Register of Contributors in the form No. 3 in the Schedule hereto, and shall enter or cause to be entered therein in respect of each contributor the particulars indicated in the said form. A copy of these particulars, together with any further information required, shall on request be supplied by the Clerk or Secretary to the Actuary from time to time appointed for the purpose of valuing the fund.

9. The Treasurer of the local authority shall from time to time, being not less than once a month, pay over to the Public Trustee all moneys deducted from the salaries of contributors and for the time being in his hands; and all such moneys shall form part of the common fund of the Public Trust Office, and interest shall be payable thereon by the Public Trustee accordingly.

10. The Public Trustee shall from time to time, on the requisition of the local authority, pay to that local authority out of the common fund such amount as the local authority requires for payments in respect of its Superannuation Fund, not exceeding the amount for the time being standing to the credit of the local authority in respect of the said fund.

11. The Public Trustee shall furnish to the Clerk or Secretary of the local authority, when required, particulars of all interest moneys from time to time paid on the amounts to the credit of the Superannuation Fund, and the dates of such payments, and such other information as to the state and management of the fund as the local authority may from time to time require.

12. The annual statement of the revenue account, the annual balance-sheet, and the annual statement of membership and of retiring and other allowances shall be in the forms Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 respectively in the Schedule hereto, or to the effect thereof.

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