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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 53

Amending Regulations under the War Regulations Amendment Act, 1916
(relating to the Delegation of Powers by Attorneys and Others).

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of March,
1917.

Present:

His Excellency The Governor In Council.

WHEREAS by section three of the War Regulations Amendment Act,
1916, it is provided that the Governor in Council may by regulations make such provisions as he thinks advisable for enabling an attorney, agent, trustee, executor, or administrator while out of New Zealand to exercise and perform his powers, functions, and duties as such in New Zealand through the agency of the Public Trustee, or any other attorney, delegate, or substitute, and for determining the rights and liabilities resulting from any such delegation of authority: And whereas by Order in Council made pursuant to the said section on the second day of September, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, it is provided that an attorney, agent, trustee, executor, or administrator who, being a member of an Expeditionary Force under the Expeditionary Forces Act, 1915, is absent from New Zealand on His Majesty's service, or is about to leave New Zealand on such service, may, by a power of attorney executed by him, delegate to the Public Trustee all or any of the powers, functions, or duties conferred or imposed upon him as such attorney, agent, trustee, executor, or administrator: And whereas it is advisable to extend the powers so conferred in the manner hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on me by section three of the War Regulations Amendment Act, 1916, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, do hereby extend the hereinbefore-recited regulations of the second day of September, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, in the manner set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

1. In addition to the powers of delegation conferred by the hereinbefore-recited regulations, an attorney, agent, trustee, executor, or administrator who, being a member of an Expeditionary Force under the Expeditionary Forces Act, 1915, is absent from New Zealand on His Majesty's service, or is about to leave New Zealand on such service, may, by a power of attorney executed by him, delegate all or any of the powers, functions, or duties conferred or imposed upon him as such attorney, agent, trustee, executor, or administrator to any person or body corporate that may be approved for the purpose by a Judge of the Supreme Court, or a Stipendiary Magistrate, on application in that behalf by that attorney, agent, trustee, executor, or administrator.

2. Where, pursuant to the powers conferred by the last preceding clause, any powers, functions, or duties are delegated to any person or body corporate other than the Public Trustee, all references to the Public Trustee in clauses 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the regulations aforesaid shall, for the purposes of such delegation, be deemed to be references to that person or body corporate, and the said clauses shall be construed accordingly.

F. W. FURBY,

Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Amending an Order in Council of 15th February, 1917, fixing the Maximum Price of Butter.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of March, 1917.

Present:

His Excellency The Governor In Council.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the fifteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and published in the Gazette of the same date, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion