Nov. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3161

Education Act, 1914.—Amendment to the Regulations for Average Attendance.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 22nd day of November, 1920

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Education Act, 1914, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the amendment hereinafter set forth in the regulations in force relating to average attendance; and doth prescribe that this amendment shall come into force on the date of the first publication of this Order in the New Zealand Gazette.

AMENDMENT IN REGULATIONS.

NOTWITHSTANDING anything in the regulations relating to average attendance of public schools, if it is shown to the satisfaction of the Director of Education that an infectious disease of an epidemic character has during three quarters of the year 1920 been locally prevalent to the extent of affecting 10 per cent. or more of the children attending any school or department, then the average for the remaining quarter of the year shall be deemed to be the yearly average attendance of such school or department.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under Crimes Amendment Act, 1910.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 22nd day of November, 1920.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section twenty-nine of the Crimes Amendment Act, 1910, and by paragraph (e) of section six of the Crimes Amendment Act, 1920, and of every other power and authority enabling him in that behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations for the purposes of the said Acts, and doth declare that the regulations shall come into force on the twenty-fourth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty.

REGULATIONS.

PRISONS BOARD.—MEETINGS, DUTIES, ETC.

1. THE Secretary of the Prisons Board shall notify the time and place of every meeting of the Board to each member thereof.

2. The Secretary shall prepare and place before the Board at every meeting a full statement of the circumstances connected with each case that is brought forward for consideration, in accordance with the requirements of the Act, and shall at any time supply any member of the Board with such information as may be required regarding the cases of individual prisoners, whether such cases are eligible for consideration by the Board or not.

3. The recommendations of the Board to the Governor-General in regard to the release on probation, discharge, or discharge from probation of offenders shall be signed by the President, or, in the event of his illness or incapacity or during his absence from Wellington, by the member of the Board representing the Department administering the Act.

4. The Board shall at least once in every year, when it meets at each of the prisons or prison institutions of the Dominion where persons serving sentences exceeding three months are confined, consider the case of each habitual criminal, habitual offender, or other person undergoing a sentence of imprisonment or reformative detention therein, with a view to making such recommendations to the Governor-General as it deems fit. At each such meeting the Board shall, as far as possible, give every prisoner then confined in the prison or institution in which it is sitting, who is eligible for consideration, the opportunity of appearing before it and stating his case personally.

5. Habitual criminals, habitual offenders, or persons sentenced to reformative detention who have completed their term of imprisonment may make application to the Board, in writing, for the consideration of their cases once only in every year, but nothing in this regulation shall prevent the Board from considering any case at such time or times as it deems fit, whether such application has been made or not.

6. In terms of paragraph (e) of section 6 of the Crimes Amendment Act, 1920, no prisoner other than an habitual criminal, habitual offender, or person under sentence of reformative detention shall apply to the Board for or be entitled to consideration until he has served at least half the full term of his sentence, nor shall the Board consider a case until six months after the date of reception into prison.

7. In regard to prisoners who have been sentenced to definite terms of imprisonment exceeding ten years, including those who have received life sentences or death sentences commuted to imprisonment for life, the period within which the Board shall first take any case into consideration shall be five years from the date of reception into prison or from the date upon which the death sentence has been commuted.

8. Upon the representation of the Prisons Department or of any individual member of the Board that there is any special reason for the earlier consideration of a case, the Board shall consider such case at any time after sentence has been passed, and shall make such recommendation as it deems fit in regard thereto, without reference to the restrictions imposed by the foregoing regulations.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

North Canterbury Acclimatization District redefined.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint those parts of the said Dominion described in the Schedule hereto to be a district under and for the purposes of the said Act; and I do hereby declare that such district shall be known as the North Canterbury Acclimatization District; and I do hereby revoke the previous notifications defining the said district.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH CANTERBURY ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Nelson, Marlborough, and Canterbury Land Districts bounded by a line commencing at Whitcombe Pass and proceeding north-easterly along the summit of the Southern Alps and the Spenser Mountains to Mount Humboldt; thence along a right line to Barefell Pass, a right line