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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 101

Validating Proceedings in connection with Picton Borough
Council’s Land Acquisition, Reclamation, and Improvement
Loan of £6,000.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-third
day of August, 1915.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Picton Borough Council lately proposed
to raise a loan of six thousand pounds under the
Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913 (hereinafter referred to as
“the said Act”), for the purposes of land acquisition and
reclamation and improvement works :

And whereas irregularities or defects occurred both in the
notice published in pursuance of section nine of the said Act
and in the voting-paper used at the poll upon the said proposal,
in that though the proposed security for such loan and the
provision for repayment thereof were stated to be a special
rate over the whole rateable area of the Borough of Picton
to cover interest and sinking fund, the amount of such rate
(namely, three-fourths of one penny in the pound on the
rateable value, on the basis of the unimproved value, of all
rateable property within the said borough) and the period of
the proposed loan (namely, thirty-six years and a half) were
not set forth in such notice and voting-paper :

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been
misled by such irregularities or defects, and it is expedient
to validate the same :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers and authorities conferred on him by section one
hundred and eleven of the said Act, and acting by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
Dominion, doth hereby declare that the proceedings in con-
nection with the said loan shall be as valid to all intents and
purposes as though the said amount of such rate and the
said period of the said loan had been stated in the said notice
and voting-paper, and that the said proceedings shall not be
called in question by reason only of the irregularities or defects
aforesaid.

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

Regulations under the War Pensions Act, 1915.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-third
day of August, 1915.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority con-
ferred on him by the War Pensions Act, 1915 (herein-
after 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 purposes of the said Act.

REGULATIONS.

INTERPRETATION.

1. In these regulations—
   “ The Board ” means the War Pensions Board appointed
   under the said Act :
   “ Commissioner ” means the Commissioner of Pensions
   appointed under the Pensions Act, 1913, who, with
   the approval of the Public Service Commissioner,
   shall be Secretary to the Board :
   “ Registrar ” means a Registrar of Pensions appointed
   under the Pensions Act, 1913 :
   “ Guardian ” means a person who for the time being has
   the care or control of any child entitled to a pension
   under the said Act or of any other person entitled
   to a pension, and being of unsound mind, but not
   detained in an institution under the Mental Defec-
   tives Act, 1911 :
   “ Pension year ” means the year commencing on the
   first day of the month in which the pension com-
   mences, and the corresponding period in each year
   thereafter :
   “ Income year ” means the year ending one month prior
   to the commencement of the pension year.

PENSION-CLAIMS.

2. Pension-claims shall be issued only to or on behalf of
   bona fide applicants for a pension, and shall when completed
   be delivered to the Registrar of the district wherein the
   applicant resides. The claim by a member of the Forces for
   a pension in respect of his disablement shall be in the form
   No. 1 in the Schedule hereto ; the claim by a dependant of
   a member for a pension in respect of his death or disablement
   shall be in the form No. 2 in the said Schedule.

3. Every application for a pension under the said Act
   shall be supported by a declaration to the effect that to the
   best of the knowledge and belief of the applicant the contents
   of his pension-claim are true and correct in every material
   point.

4. The Registrar shall record the receipt of every claim
   in a book kept for the purpose, and shall forthwith transmit
   the claim to the Commissioner with a report as to the eligi-
   bility of the applicant, and the Commissioner shall submit the
   claim (together with the Registrar’s report) for investigation
   and determination by the Board.

5. The Commissioner shall keep a Claim Register, in which
   all claims received by him shall be duly recorded.

6. In connection with the investigation of pension-claims
   the following provisions shall apply :—
   (1.) If in the course of investigation evidence is required
   on any specific matter, the Board, or any person authorized
   by it, may inquire into the same, and for the purpose of such
   inquiry free access shall be given to—
   (a.) The registers and records of any State Department or
   office :
   (b.) All real and personal property of the applicant, and all
   books, vouchers, and documents relating to such
   property or to the income of the applicant.
   (2.) The powers of inquiry and search hereby given shall be
   limited to specified applications for pension, and shall not be
   construed as authorizing any general search or inquiry.
   (3.) It shall be the duty of all officers of the aforesaid
   Departments and offices, and of any bank, insurance com-
   pany, or other corporation carrying on business in New
   Zealand, and of all officers of the Post Office Savings-
   bank, and of any other Government Department which
   receives investments of money from the public, and of any
   private individual, to make true answers to all questions,
   and to afford (without fee) all such information as may
   be reasonably required for the purpose of prosecuting such
   inquiry as aforesaid.
   (4.) The Board may, in its discretion, accept as testimony
   for or against the claim—
   (a.) A declaration made by any reputable person who
   therein declares to what he knows of his own know-
   ledge to be true ; or
   (b.) Any other documentary evidence, whether strictly
   legal evidence or not ; or
   (c.) The spoken evidence of a reputable person who deposes
   to what he knows to be true :
   (d.) The knowledge or observation of the Board itself.
   (5.) The valuations for the time being appearing in the
   general valuation roll under the Valuation of Land Act, 1908,
   shall, so far as the same are applicable, be used for the pur-
   pose of assessing the value of any property of an applicant
   for a pension, if the value of such property is relevant to the
   determination of the claim.

7. The pension-claim, with a minute of the Board’s decision
   attached thereto, shall be submitted to the Minister of
   Defence for approval, and on receipt of the Minister’s
   approval shall be filed by the Commissioner.

8. If the claim is rejected, a notification to that effect shall
   be sent to the applicant under the hand of the Commissioner,
   specifying the grounds for rejection, which shall be duly noted
   in the Claim Register.

9. If the claim is established, the Commissioner shall issue
   to the applicant a pension-certificate setting out on the face
   thereof the amount of pension granted, the office of payment,
   and the date on which the first instalment falls due, and shall
   enter particulars thereof in the Pension Register.

10. The Pension Register shall contain particulars of every
    pension established, and there shall also be recorded therein
    particulars of any circumstances affecting the payment of any
    pension.

PAYMENT OF PENSIONS.

11. There shall from time to time be paid out of the Con-
    solidated Fund into the Post Office Account by way of imprest
    whatever moneys are necessary in order to enable the instal-
    ments of pensions granted under the said Act to be paid out
    of such account, and the Postmaster-General shall thereupon
    pay such instalments accordingly.

12. Every pension granted shall be payable by equal
    monthly instalments, of which the first shall be payable on
    the 1st day of the month next after the commencement of the
    pension year : Provided that an instalment payable on the