Numb. 152.

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1919.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1919.

Regulations for Post Office Savings-banks.—Amendments.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this fifteenth day of December, 1919.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR WILLIAM FRASER PRESIDING IN Council.
WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the seventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the thirteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, regulations were made under the authority of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, for the conduct of post-office savings-banks:
And whereas it is desirable to amend such regulations in the manner hereinafter set forth:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, and the Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, 1919, and of all other powers and authorities in that behalf enabling him, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion;
doth hereby revoke the regulations numbered twenty-two, forty-two, and fifty-seven in the Schedule to the above-recited Order in Council, and doth make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto; and doth declare that the regulations hereby made shall be read with and form part of the above-recited regulations, and shall have effect on and after the date of publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette.
SCHEDULE.
22. (1.) EVERY depositor shall enter the amount of each deposit made by him on the form of voucher supplied for the purpose by the Postmaster-General; he must also sign his name on the said voucher, and state thereon the address to which he desires that the acknowledgment hereinafter referred to may be transmitted.
Under no circumstances may a depositor enter any sum or make any entry whatever in the numbered book issued to him.
(2.) When a first deposit is made, a numbered book (in these regulations referred to as the “Depositor’s Book”) shall be handed to the depositor.
(3.) See Appendix, section 70, subsections (1), (2), and (3).
(4.) The acknowledgment of the Postmaster-General of the receipt of a deposit of £20 or more shall be signified by the Controller of the Post Office Savings-bank, or by such other officer as the Postmaster-General shall appoint for the purpose, and shall be in the following form:—
Depositor's Book No.
Savings-bank Department,
General Post Office, Wellington, N.Z.
THE Postmaster having reported to the Postmaster-General the receipt by him of your deposit of the , 19, amounting to £ : : , that amount has been placed to the credit of your account in the books of this Department.
[N.B.—Should any alteration or erasure appear to have been made in this acknowledgment, or should it be inaccurate in any particular, it should be returned to the Controller, General Post Office, Wellington.]
(5.) Such acknowledgment shall be conclusive evidence of the fact and amount of the deposit. In the case of a deposit of less than £20 the entry in the depositor's book shall be conclusive evidence of title in the same manner as an acknowledgment by the Postmaster-General of a deposit of £20 or more, and it shall not be necessary to transmit any acknowledgment of a deposit of less than £20.
In order to allow a reasonable time for the receipt of such acknowledgment, the entry in the depositor's book shall be evidence of title for six weeks from the date of the lodgment of the deposit; and if such acknowledgment has not been received by the depositor through the post within one month from the date of his deposit, and the depositor has before or upon the expiry thereof demanded the said acknowledgment from the Postmaster-General, the entry in his depositor's book shall be evidence of title during another term of one month, and toties quoties.
If the sum mentioned in any acknowledgment is not identical with the sum actually deposited by a depositor, or the sum entered in such depositor's book or any other particulars are incorrect, he shall at once, by letter addressed to the Controller of the Post Office Savings-bank, call the attention of the Postmaster-General to the discrepancy.
57. (1.) The amount at credit of an account may, upon the application of the depositor, be transferred from the Post Office Savings-bank of New Zealand to the Government Savings-bank of Great Britain or that of any British possession or foreign country with which a reciprocal arrangement to that effect has been made; provided that the total amount standing at the credit of the account, inclusive of interest, does not exceed the maximum sum which may be deposited under the law of the country to which such transfer is desired.
(2.) Such application shall be made in the authorized form, which may be obtained at any savings-bank, and shall be accompanied by the depositor's book, or by other evidence, to the satisfaction of the Postmaster-General, of the title of the applicant to the deposits to which the application relates.
(3.) There shall be paid by depositors to the Postmaster-General for the transfer of their accounts a fee regulated by