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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 80

12. Appeals to a Magistrate under section 11 of the said Act against the district electors roll or a supplementary district electors list or roll 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 day on which the district electors roll is, by section 13 of the said Act, closed for the purpose of any election or poll, and not later than that day a copy of that objection shall be lodged by the objector with the Town Clerk.

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

(c.) The Magistrate shall appoint a day being not later than three days after the objection is lodged for the hearing and determining thereof, and notice of the day so appointed shall be given by the Clerk of the said Court to the Council and to the appellant.

13. Supplementary district electors rolls for the purposes of an election to fill any extraordinary vacancy in the office of Mayor or Councillor or for any poll shall be prepared in manner prescribed by Regulation 10 hereof.

14. A copy of the district electors roll, and of all its supplements, and also the original roll with all its amendments and corrections, shall be kept open for public inspection at the office of the Town Clerk during office hours without fee.

15. The roll required under section 14 of the said Act shall be prepared by striking out from the district electors roll, and from every supplementary district electors roll in force within the borough, on the fourteenth day previous to the taking of the poll for which such roll is required, the name of every person whose name appears on such rolls and is not entitled to vote at such poll, and the name of every other person whose name appears on such rolls more than once (except in the case where that name first appears); and no other alterations shall be made in any such roll after that day until after the taking of the poll.

16. In case the district electors roll for any borough or ward is not, from any cause whatever, made out and completed so as to come into force on the 1st day of April, or within any extension of time allowed under section 379 of the said Act, the district electors roll for that borough or ward in force on the 31st day of March shall remain in force until another district electors roll comes into force for the same borough or ward.

17. (1.) As soon as practicable after the original district electors roll or any supplementary district electors roll, or roll under section 14 of the said Act, comes into force, copies thereof shall (except as hereinafter provided) be printed by the Council.

(2.) Where the total number of electors on any roll or supplementary roll does not exceed two hundred, the Council may by resolution declare that such roll or supplementary roll shall be typewritten and not printed, and the same shall be typewritten accordingly.

(3.) The Town Clerk shall supply any person with a copy of the printed or typewritten district electors roll, together with all its printed or typewritten supplements, on payment of ls.

18. The Town Clerk is liable to a fine not exceeding £5 in every case where he refuses, or wilfully neglects, or unreasonably delays-

(a.) To place on the district electors list the name of any person who makes a claim for enrolment in the manner provided by paragraph (b) of Regulation 2 hereof; or

(b.) To faithfully and promptly perform any other duty imposed on him by these regulations.

19. If the Council fails or unreasonably delays to keep at the Town Clerk's office a supply of blank printed forms of claims for enrolment for the free use of claimants, as provided by Regulation 4 hereof, or to faithfully and promptly perform any other duty imposed on it by these regulations, every person (whether the Town Clerk or any member of the Council) who is party to or responsible for such failure or delay is severally liable to a fine not exceeding £5.

20. When a borough is first divided, or is redivided, into wards, the Town Clerk shall prepare a separate district electors roll for each ward, or for each ward affected by the redivision; and the Town Clerk shall forthwith make up from the district electors roll or rolls in force a new district electors roll for each such ward, and shall place on the roll of each such ward the name of each elector who appears from the existing district electors roll to be entitled to vote therein.

21. The Town Clerk shall also in like manner make new district electors rolls for any ward or wards affected by any creation, abolition, or division of wards, or alteration in their boundaries.

22. Whenever any adjoining area is included in a borough or any ward the Town Clerk shall forthwith make up from the district electors roll or rolls in force in such borough or ward, and from the ratepayers or electors roll in force in any such area, a new district electors roll for the borough or ward, as the case may be ; and shall place on the roll for such borough or ward the name of each elector or ratepayer who appears from such rolls respectively to be entitled to vote therein.

23. Whenever any area is excluded from a borough the Town Clerk shall forthwith remove from the district electors roll or rolls in force in such borough or any ward thereof respectively the name of every person whose name appears on such roll or rolls only as possessing a qualification entitling him to be entered thereon in respect of the area so excluded.

24. The rolls made or altered under any of the four last preceding regulations shall, when authenticated in the manner prescribed by Regulation 25 hereof, be the district electors rolls for such borough or ward or wards, as the case may be, until new rolls are made up in accordance with the said Act and the regulations thereunder.

25. (1.) The district electors list, and every supplementary district electors list, and every roll or supplementary roll made pursuant to the said Act or these regulations shall be authenticated by being certified to be correct by the Mayor and two Councillors.

(2.) Where from any cause the foregoing provisions of this regulation cannot be complied with such lists or rolls may be authenticated by the Town Clerk, who shall append the following certificate thereto:-

"Certified pursuant to Regulation 25 (2) of Regulations under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, to be correct.

..................., Town Clerk."