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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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General, the appeal being to the High Court. The last-mentioned Act shall be in force in Samoa so far as may be necessary for the purposes of this clause.

9. No estate duty shall be payable on the estate of any deceased Samoan (as defined in the Samoa Act); no succession duty shall be payable on any interest acquired by any Samoan as the successor of a deceased Samoan; no gift duty shall be chargeable in respect of a gift whereof the donor is a Samoan.

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

Samoa Bankruptcy Order.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 4th day of December, 1922.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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 Samoa Act, 1921, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby order as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Samoa Bankruptcy Order, 1922, and shall come into force on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three.

2. In this Order “the Official Assignee” means the Official Assignee for Samoa appointed under this Order.

3. Subject to the following provisions hereof, the Bankruptcy Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the Act”), with the exception of sections four, five, six, ten, eleven, twelve, fourteen, sections fifteen to twenty-four inclusive, sections one hundred and thirty-nine and one hundred and forty-eight, and sections one hundred and fifty-five to one hundred and sixty-two inclusive, shall, so far as applicable, be in force in Samoa.

4. In the application of the Act to Samoa, all references therein to New Zealand shall be read as references to Samoa; all references to the Court or to the Supreme Court shall be read as references to the High Court constituted under the Samoa Act, 1921; all references to the Minister of Justice shall be read as references to the Administrator; all references to the Official Assignee, or to the Assignee, or to an Assignee shall be read as references to the Official Assignee for Samoa; all references to a Magistrate shall be read as references to a Judge of the High Court; all references to a Justice shall be read as references to a Commissioner of the High Court; all references to the Public Trust Office and to the Public Trustee shall be read as references to the Samoan Public Trust Office and to the Samoan Public Trustee respectively; all references to a judgment summons under the Imprisonment for Debt Limitation Act, 1908, shall be read as references to a summons under rule seventy-eight of the Rules of the High Court; all references to the verdict of the jury in an action shall be read as references to a verdict of the Chief Judge; and all references to an indictment shall be read as references to an information.

5. Samoa is hereby constituted a district within the meaning of the Act, and the Court having jurisdiction therein shall be the High Court.