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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 131

Regulations under the Municipal Corporations Acts.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this fifteenth day of November, 1915.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), and the Acts amending the same, 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 Acts.

REGULATIONS.

DISTRICT ELECTORS LIST AND ROLL.

1. THE district electors list, to be compiled on or before the 15th day of February in every year in which a general election of the Council is to be held, as provided by section 6 of the said Act and section 2 of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1910, shall be in the form and shall contain the particulars specified in the First Schedule hereto.

2. In preparing the district electors list the Town Clerk shall place thereon the name—
   (a.) Of every person of whose qualification as an elector he is satisfied; and also
   (b.) Of every person who makes, and delivers or transmits to him at his office, a claim for enrolment as hereinafter provided.

3. Every such claim for enrolment shall be in the form set forth in the Second Schedule hereto, or to the like effect, and the claimant’s signature shall be attested by a Justice of the Peace, or a Postmaster, or a minister of religion, or an elector of the borough, or the Town Clerk.

4. It shall be the duty of the Council to keep at the Town Clerk’s office a supply of blank printed forms of claims for enrolment as aforesaid for the free use of claimants under paragraph (b) of regulation 2 hereof.

5. Names appearing on the district electors roll in respect of a freehold or rating qualification for any year shall be continued on the next succeeding district electors list, except in the case of persons who are known to the Town Clerk to have died or to have lost their qualification; and it shall be his duty to report in writing to the Council all names thus omitted and the reasons of the omission. The Town Clerk shall send a written notice to every person whose name is omitted as having lost his qualification, informing him of the fact of such omission.

6. The Town Clerk shall, as far as possible, omit from the district electors list the name of every person whose name appears on the district electors roll for the time being in force in respect of a residential qualification, and who, not being a candidate at such election, has not voted at the general election of Councillors held since that roll came into force.

7. The Town Clerk shall keep the district electors list in his office, and allow it to be inspected without fee by all persons interested therein during office hours from the 16th until the 22nd day of February of the year in which the list is compiled; and he shall, on or before the said 16th day of February, publicly notify that the said list is or will be ready for inspection as aforesaid.

8. All objections under section 10 of the said Act shall be in writing under the hand of the objector, in the form in the Third Schedule hereto, and must be addressed to the Town Clerk, and delivered at his office on or before the 1st day of March in the year in which the list is compiled.

9. The Town Clerk shall make and sign a list of all such objections in the form in the Fourth Schedule hereto, and shall keep that list in his office, and allow it to be inspected without fee by any person interested therein during office hours from the 2nd to the 6th day of March.

10. The Council shall amend the district electors list by correcting every error set forth in any such objection and proved to the satisfaction of the Council to exist therein; and the Mayor shall initial every alteration so made in the district electors list.

11. At the sitting of the Council held for that purpose in the month of March (being not later than the 15th day thereof) the Mayor and two Councillors shall sign the district electors list as amended, and certify thereon to its being correct.

12. For the purpose of amending the district electors list by the addition of new names after the district electors list has become the district electors roll, supplementary district electors lists may from time to time be prepared; and with respect to every such supplementary list the following provisions shall apply:—
    (a.) The names of electors shall be entered therein in alphabetical order of surnames, and shall be numbered consecutively, commencing with the number next following the last number in the last preceding list then in force.