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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 14

March, nineteen hundred and twenty, under the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890, doth hereby amend the Rules of the High Court of Western Samoa, 1920, in the manner hereinafter set forth; and doth hereby declare that the amendments hereby made shall come into force in the Territory of Western Samoa on the first day of February, nineteen hundred and twenty-one.

REGULATIONS.

1. THESE regulations shall be read with and form part of the Rules of the High Court of Western Samoa, 1920.

2. Rule 47 is hereby revoked, and the following substituted in lieu thereof:—

“47. In any civil proceeding in the High Court the Court shall have power to make such order as it thinks just for the payment of the costs of the proceeding by or to any party thereto. Such order may be for payment of such sum for costs and such disbursements as the Court shall in its discretion think fit. In the exercise of such discretion the Court shall have regard to the rules as to allowances and payment of costs in force in the Supreme Court and the Magistrates’ Court in New Zealand in like proceedings. Any such order may be made by the Court at the time of delivery of judgment in the proceeding or upon motion to be filed by the party applying for costs within seven days after the date of delivery of judgment.”

3. Rule 49 is hereby amended by omitting the words “costs and.”

4. Rule 134 is hereby amended by substituting the words “twenty shillings” for the words “ten shillings.”

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

SAMOA NATIVE LAND AND TITLES COMMISSION AMENDMENT ORDER.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 20th day of December, 1920.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, and in pursuance of the authority to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Territory of Western Samoa conferred upon him by the Western Samoa Order in Council, 1920, made by His Majesty on the eleventh day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty, under the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890, doth hereby order as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Samoa Native Land and Titles Commission Amendment Order, 1920, and shall be read with and form part of the Samoa Native Land and Titles Commission Order, 1920.

2. This Order shall come into force on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty.

3. Clause thirteen of the Samoa Native Land and Titles Commission Order, 1920, is hereby revoked, and the following substituted in lieu thereof:—

“13. On application made by any person interested within fourteen days after the delivery of any final decision of the Commission, and upon payment of the fees prescribed in that behalf within fourteen days after the lodging of such application, the Chief Judge and not less than two of the European Assessors may, if they think fit, make an order for the rehearing by the Commission of the matter in which the decision was given, or they may adjourn the application to be dealt with by the Commission at its next regular sitting. On any such rehearing the Commission may confirm, reverse, or vary the decision previously made by it.”

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

By Authority: MARCUS F. MARKS, Government Printer, Wellington.