New Zealand Gazette – 1920 – No. 51

Page 1629

✨ Samoan Public Service Regulations



May 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1629

  1. Any person in lawful custody in Samoa may be detained in any such prison, and may from time to time be removed by order of the Administrator or of a Judge of the High Court from one prison to another.

  2. Any person in lawful custody in Samoa may, if it is inconvenient or impracticable immediately to take him to any prison for confinement therein, be temporarily detained in any other suitable place of security.

  3. The Minister may appoint such persons as he thinks fit as officers of police or officers of prisons in Samoa.

Education.

  1. (1.) The Administrator may establish and maintain such public schools in Samoa as he deems necessary for the education of the Samoan or other inhabitants thereof.

(2.) The Minister may appoint such teachers and other officers as may be deemed necessary for such schools.

(3.) When any teacher or other officer so appointed is at the time of his appointment a contributor to the Teachers’ Superannuation Fund his service in Samoa shall be deemed to be education service for the purposes of that fund, and he shall continue to be a contributor thereto accordingly, but his salary for the purposes of that fund shall not be deemed to include any tropical or other special allowance received by him in respect to his residence in Samoa.

(4.) In computing for the purposes of that fund the length of service of any such contributor every complete continuous year of his service, after the commencement of this Act, in the Samoan Public Service shall be computed as one year and a half.

The Seal of Samoa.

  1. (1.) There shall be a public seal of the Territory of Western Samoa, to be in such form or forms as the Minister from time to time approves.

(2.) Such seal shall be in the custody respectively of the Minister and of the Administrator.

(3.) Such seal may be used for the authentication of any public document in relation to the government of Samoa, or for the execution of any document required by law to be executed under the seal of the Territory.

(4.) Judicial notice shall be taken of such seal in all Courts in Samoa and in New Zealand.

PART II.

THE LEGISLATIVE GOVERNMENT OF SAMOA.

  1. The Administrator, acting with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council of Western Samoa, may make laws (to be known as Ordinances) for the peace, order, and good government of the Territory not being repugnant to this Order or to any Act of the Parliament of New Zealand or of the United Kingdom in force in the Territory or to any regulations there in force.

  2. There is hereby established in and for Samoa a Legislative Council, to be called the Legislative Council of Western Samoa.

  3. (1.) The Legislative Council shall consist of—

(a.) Official members (not less than four in number) being the holders for the time being of such offices in the Samoan Public Service as the Governor-General from time to time appoints as entitling the holders thereof to sit in the Legislative Council :

(b.) Unofficial members (not more in number than the official members) being such other persons (if any) as the Governor-General appoints to hold office during his pleasure as members of the Legislative Council.



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🏛️ Regulations regarding the Samoan Public Service (continued from previous page)

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Samoa, Public Service, Regulations, Prisons, Police, Education, Teachers, Superannuation, Seal, Legislative Council