Aug. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2723

Provided that if any application for registration is granted after the first day of July in any year there shall only be payable in respect of the remainder of that year a fee of 10s. 6d.

(2.) In default of payment for a period of thirty days the agent shall be suspended until the fee is paid.

(3.) All such fees shall be paid to the Receiver of Gold Revenue.

166. The registration of any person as a mining agent shall not be cancelled until after a public inquiry, of which due notice is given to all persons concerned. An application to cancel such registration may be in the Form No. 107 in the Ninth Schedule hereto.

167. The fees set out in the Tenth Schedule hereto may be allowed to either party in respect of any registered mining agent lawfully appearing and acting in any proceedings under the Mining Act.

168. The procedure prescribed by the Mining Act and these regulations in respect of applications for mining privileges, and objections thereto, shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to all applications and objections filed and lodged pursuant to these regulations relating to mining agents.

Forms.

169. The forms in the respective schedules hereto may be modified or adapted as the circumstances of the case require, and in any case where no suitable form appears in the schedules such form may be used as the Warden prescribes or approves.

170. In every case where, in the exercise of the powers and functions of the Warden, the Commissioner of Crown Lands issues any license or warrant sealing shall not be necessary.

As to Determination of Questions or Disputes by Warden and Two Assessors.

171. In every case where any question or dispute is to be determined by the Warden and two Assessors, the provisions of section 113 of the Mining Act shall, mutatis mutandis, apply.

Purchase and Sale of Gold and Registration of Gold-buyers.

172. Any person, other than an incorporated bank, desirous of obtaining a gold-dealer’s license shall, at least thirty days before the hearing, lodge with the Warden an application in duplicate in the Form No. 108 in the Ninth Schedule hereto, together with a fee of 5s.

173. The duplicate shall, on the day of the receipt thereof by the Mining Registrar or Clerk of the Court, be posted in a conspicuous place either within or without the Court, and shall be kept posted, legible, and intact till the day of hearing of the application. Before the hearing of the application the Registrar shall obtain a report on the application from the Inspector of Mines of the district.

174. The applicant shall forthwith cause a copy of his application to be published in two consecutive issues of a local newspaper, and shall also keep a copy posted until the hearing in a conspicuous place on the building in which he intends to carry on his business as a licensed gold-dealer. Applicants for the renewal of gold-dealers’ licenses shall not be required to advertise when applying for renewals of their licenses.

175. Any person may, either before or at the hearing of an application, object to the issue of a gold-dealer’s license to any applicant:

Provided that any objection may be communicated to the Warden or to the Minister by ordinary letter through the post; and, for the purpose of making due inquiry into the grounds of such objection, the Warden or Minister may defer dealing with the application for such period as may be necessary.

176. If the Minister decides to grant to any such applicant a gold-dealer’s license he shall cause a license in the Form No. 109 in the Ninth Schedule hereto to be issued to such person. When any such license has been granted, and has been registered in the Register of Licensed Gold-dealers at the office of the Department of Mines in Wellington, it shall be forwarded to the Warden for delivery to the licensee.

177. An incorporated bank shall apply in writing to the Minister for a general gold-dealers’ license, and, on receipt of a fee of 5s., together with 5s. in addition for each branch at which gold-dealing is to be carried on, such license may be granted in the Form No. 110 in the Ninth Schedule hereto.

178. Such license shall authorise the bank to deal in gold at every branch specified therein.

179. The manager, or the accountant, or the officer in charge of the gold-buying department for the time being at every such branch shall be deemed to be a “licensee” within the meaning of the said Act.

180. The bank, in the application for the license, shall state the places at which such branches are established, and from time to time give to the Under-Secretary of Mines written notice of the establishment of any additional branch at which gold-dealing is to be carried on.

181. A Gold-dealer’s Book, in the Form No. 111 in the Ninth Schedule hereto, shall be kept at the registered place of business of every gold-dealer, and at every branch of an incorporated bank holding a gold-dealer’s license at which gold-dealing is carried on. Every licensed gold-dealer other than an incorporated bank, and, in the case of a bank, the manager, accountant, or officer in charge of the gold-buying department for the time being of the branch, as the case may be, shall personally conduct and carry out every transaction relating to the purchase or sale of gold, and shall, after every purchase or sale has been effected, forthwith record in his Gold-dealer’s Book the prescribed particulars of the transaction.

182. On or before the fifth day of each month every licensed gold-dealer and the manager at any such branch of an incorporated bank holding a gold-dealer’s license shall forward to the Under-