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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

3. (1.) The fees for licenses issued under the last preceding regulation shall be as follows:—
   (a.) Wholesale trading license: £10 per annum, payable quarterly in advance on the 1st day of January, April, July, and October in each year.
   (b.) Retail trading license: £5 per annum, payable quarterly in advance on the 1st day of January, April, July, and October in each year.
   (c.) Trading vessel’s license: £10 per annum, payable yearly in advance on the 1st day of January in each year.
   (d.) Stall license: £5 per annum, payable quarterly in advance on the 1st day of January, April, July, and October in each year.
   (e.) Hawker’s and pedlar’s trading license: £20 per annum, payable yearly in advance on the 1st day of January in each year.
   (f.) Accommodation-house trading license: £2 10s. per annum, payable half-yearly in advance on the 1st day of January and July in each year.
   (g.) Baker’s license (Niue): £2 10s. per annum, payable half-yearly in advance on the 1st day of January and July in each year.
   (2.) The same fee shall be charged for a license for any portion of a term as for a whole term.

4. All licenses under these regulations shall be issued by the Collector of Customs at Rarotonga or at Niue (as the case may be), or by the Resident Agent at any island under his jurisdiction. All fees received for licenses shall be paid into the Cook Islands Treasury.

5. Any person or company having more than one store used for trading purposes shall obtain a wholesale license for the principal store and a retail license for every other store, whether situated in the same island as the principal store or in any other island of the Cook Group.

6. If more than one person is interested in a store or stores they shall be liable to pay for one license only in respect of each store.

7. Every person who sells or barter goods (other than goods wholly the produce of the Cook Islands) in or from any building, vessel, vehicle, horse, or pack, or in or from any other place or thing, without first having obtained a license therefor in accordance with the provisions of these regulations shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £10 in addition to payment of the proper license fee, or in default of payment shall be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a period not exceeding three months.

8. Every person who purchases or barter goods (other than goods wholly the produce of the Cook Islands) from or with any person who has not obtained an appropriate license in accordance with the provisions of these regulations, knowing such person to be unlicensed, shall, on conviction, be liable to the same penalty as such unlicensed person.

9. Every person obtaining a license under the provisions of these regulations shall exhibit and keep exhibited such license in some conspicuous part of the building, vessel, or vehicle, or other place named in such license, or on the stall for which any such license is issued. Any person who fails to observe the provisions of this regulation shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding £2.

10. Nothing in these regulations shall apply to any person about to leave the Cook Islands in respect of the sale by him by public auction or private contract of all or any of his household furniture or effects which have been in his use for not less than six months prior to such sale; but such person shall first obtain the written authority of the Collector of Customs at Rarotonga or at Niue (as the case may be), or of a Resident Agent at any other island, for such sale.

11. Licenses issued under these regulations shall be in the form set out in the Schedule hereto, and, unless sooner revoked, shall continue in force until the expiration of one year after the date of the issue thereof.

SCHEDULE.

No. . Date: , 191 .

THIS is to certify that has paid the sum of for a license for the ending , 191 , in respect of premises situated at .

£ .

, Collector of Customs or Resident Agent at .

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