SEPT. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2243

Regulations under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 30th day of August, 1921.
Present:
His Excellency The Governor-General in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the Municipal
Corporations Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), 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 Act, and doth hereby revoke the regulations made under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908,
on the 15th day of November, 1915, and published in the Gazette of the 18th November, 1915.

REGULATIONS.
DISTRICT ELECTORS LIST AND ROLL.

1. The district electors list, to be compiled on or before the 31st day of January in every year in
   which a general election of the Council is to be held, as provided by section 6 of the said Act, shall
   be in the form and shall contain the particulars specified in the First Schedule hereto.

2. In preparing the district electors list the Town Clerk shall place thereon the name--
   (a.) Of every person of whose qualification as an elector he is satisfied; and also
   (b.) Of every person who makes, and delivers or transmits to him at his office, a claim for
   enrolment as hereinafter provided.

3. Every such claim for enrolment shall be in the form set forth in the Second Schedule hereto,
   or to the like effect, and the claimant's signature shall be attested by a Justice of the Peace, or a
   Postmaster, or a minister of religion, or an elector of the borough, or the Town Clerk.

4. It shall be the duty of the Council to keep at the Town Clerk's office a supply of blank printed
   forms of claims for enrolment as aforesaid for the free use of claimants under paragraph (b) of
   Regulation 2 hereof.

5. Names appearing on the district electors roll for any year shall be continued on the next
   succeeding district electors list, except in the case of persons who are known to the Town Clerk
   to have died or to have lost their qualification; and it shall be his duty to report in writing to
   the Council all names thus omitted and the reasons of the omission. The Town Clerk shall send a
   written notice to every person whose name is omitted as having lost his qualification, informing him
   of the fact of such omission.

6. The Town Clerk shall keep the district electors list in his office, and allow it to be inspected
   without fee by all persons interested therein during office hours from the 1st until the 7th day of
   February of the year in which the list is compiled; and he shall, on or before the said 1st day of
   February, publicly notify that the said list is or will be ready for inspection as aforesaid.

7. All objections under section 9 of the said Act shall be in writing under the hand of the
   objector, in the form in the Third Schedule hereto, and must be addressed to the Town Clerk, and
   delivered at his office on or before the 15th day of February in the year in which the list is compiled.

8. The Town Clerk shall make and sign a list of all such objections in the form in the Fourth
   Schedule hereto, and shall keep that list in his office, and allow it to be inspected without fee by any
   person interested therein during office hours from the 16th to the 20th day of February.

9. The Council shall, at the sitting of the Council held for that purpose in the month of March
   (being not later than the 15th day thereof), amend the district electors list by correcting every error
   set forth in any such objection and proved to the satisfaction of the Council to exist therein, and any
   other error found in such list; and the Mayor shall initial every alteration so made in the district electors
   list, which shall thereupon be authenticated in the manner prescribed by Regulation 25 hereof.

10. Additions to the district electors list after the 31st day of January aforesaid shall be made
    by means of a supplementary district electors list or supplementary lists, and with respect to every
    such supplementary list the following shall apply:--

(a.) The names of electors shall be entered therein in alphabetical order of surnames, and
shall be numbered consecutively, commencing with the number next following the last
number in the district electors list, or in the last previous supplementary list.

(b.) Each supplementary district electors list shall be corrected where necessary, and shall
be authenticated in the manner prescribed by Regulation 25 hereof, and shall thereafter
upon be a supplementary district electors list, and be deemed to be incorporated
with the original district electors list; or, if the said district electors list has then
become the district electors roll, it shall be deemed to be a supplementary district
electors roll, and to be incorporated with such district electors roll.

11. Appeals to a Magistrate under section 11 of the said Act against the district electors list may
    be made as follows:--

(a.) An objection in writing under the hand of the objector shall be lodged by him with the
Clerk of the Magistrate's Court nearest to the public office of the Council not later
than the 19th day of March, and a copy of that objection shall also be lodged by
the objector with the Town Clerk not later than the said 19th day of March.

(b.) The objection may be in the form in the Third Schedule hereto, or as near thereto as
may be.

(c.) The Magistrate shall hear and determine the appeal at such convenient place and
time, not being later than the 27th day of March, as he appoints, and not less than
three days' notice shall be given by the Clerk of the said Court to the Council and to
the appellant of the date so appointed.