NUMB. 98.

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1914.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1914.

Regulations under the Expeditionary Forces Voting Act, 1914. Liverpool, Governor. ORDER IN COUNCIL. At the Government House at Wellington, this fourth day of September, 1914.
Present : His Excellency the Governor in Council. In pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on him by the Expeditionary Forces Voting Act, 1914 (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 for the purpose of the said Act:
REGULATIONS.
Preparation of Rolls.

1. The Chief Electoral Officer shall cause to be prepared from the several military rolls of the members of any Expeditionary Force such electoral rolls as may be required for the purposes of the election or poll to be held or taken under the said Act.
2. The name of every person whose name appears on any of the said military rolls shall be entered on the appropriate electoral roll, and no name shall be entered on the electoral roll that does not appear on any of the military rolls.
3. Every person whose name appears on any such electoral roll shall, on application in that behalf to the Electoral Officer as hereinafter provided, be entitled to vote under the said Act.
4. Any person who has been accepted for service with any Expeditionary Force but whose name does not appear on any such electoral roll as aforesaid shall be entitled to vote under the said Act on producing to the Electoral Officer a certificate signed by any officer of the Expeditionary Force to the effect that he is a member of that force. Every such certificate shall be attached by the Electoral Officer to his copy of the electoral roll, and shall be forwarded to the Chief Electoral Officer at the close of the poll.
   Dates of Polls, &c.
5. The Chief Electoral Officer shall appoint such times and places as he thinks fit for the purpose of holding the election and poll under the said Act.
   Conduct of Polls, &c.
6. Every person entitled to vote under the said Act shall, on personal application to the Electoral Officer appointed for the taking of the poll at any place, be entitled, on satisfying the Electoral Officer that he is a member of an Expeditionary Force, to receive a ballot-paper for the election of a member of the House of Representatives and a voting-paper for each of the issues to be submitted at the licensing poll.
7. On giving to the voter the ballot-paper and voting-papers as aforesaid the Electoral Officer or one of his assistants shall draw a line through the name of the voter on the roll as an indication that the voter has received the said ballot-paper and voting-papers, and shall mark the ballot-paper and voting-papers and the counterfoils thereof in the same manner so far as practicable as in the case of ordinary elections or polls.
8. Every person receiving a ballot-paper and voting-papers as aforesaid shall, before leaving the place where the same have been handed to him, record his vote thereon in the manner required by law, and after folding the same so that the contents cannot be seen shall proceed as directed by the said Act.
9. All envelopes containing ballot-papers or voting-papers shall in the presence of the voter be placed by the Electoral Officer in a ballot-box provided for the purpose.
10. The said ballot-box shall not be opened until the close of the poll on each day on which a poll is taken.
11. On the close of the poll on each day the Electoral Officer shall open the ballot-box and taking out all the envelopes contained therein shall make them into a parcel, and, after sealing the parcel, shall forward it by registered post to the Chief Electoral Officer at Wellington.
    Scrutineers.
12. (1.) For the purposes of the voting under the said Act in connection with the licensing poll scrutineers may be appointed as follows :
    (a.) One scrutineer for each polling-place may be appointed on behalf of persons in favour of the issue that licenses be granted;
    (b.) One scrutineer for each polling-place may be appointed on behalf of persons in favour of the issue that licenses be not granted.
    (2.) Scrutineers under paragraph (a) may be appointed by the National Council of New Zealand, and scrutineers under paragraph (b) may be appointed by the Executive of the New Zealand Alliance.
    (3.) All scrutineers appointed under this regulation shall before acting be required to make the same declaration as if they had been appointed as scrutineers under the Licensing Act, 1908.
    F. D. THOMSON,
    Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.
    By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.