Samoan Legislative Council Order




claim, application, or objection for the purpose of this Order
either as claimant, applicant, objector, or witness ; or
(c.) Signs his name as witness to any signature upon any such
form of claim or objection without having seen such signa-
ture written, or without hearing the person signing declare
that the signature is his own handwriting and that the
name so signed is his own proper name.
28. Every person is liable to a fine of twenty pounds who, having
obtained possession of a claim for enrolment signed by any other person
for the purpose of being delivered to the Registrar for enrolment, fails
so to deliver it so that the claimant's name is not placed on the roll.

ELECTION OF MEMBERS.

  1. The first election of members to the Legislative Council shall
    take place on a day to be fixed by the Administrator, such day not
    being later than six calendar months after the making of this Order,
    and succeeding elections shall take place in every third year, com-
    mencing from the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three,
    on a day in the month of November to be fixed by the Administrator.
  2. For every election of members aforesaid the Administrator
    shall give notice in writing to the Returning Officer not less than
    twenty-eight clear days before the day fixed for the election.
  3. Not less than twenty-one clear days before an election the
    Returning Officer shall give public notice of such election, and shall
    in such notice appoint a place in Apia and a day not less than five
    nor more than ten days (exclusive of the day of election) before the
    election for the nomination of candidates.
  4. No person shall be deemed to be a candidate for election
    unless nominated as follows :
    A nomination-paper in the form numbered (6) in the First
    Schedule, signed by two electors and by the candidate in
    token of his assent to such nomination, shall be delivered
    to the Returning Officer or addressed to him and delivered
    at the place named in the said public notice at any time
    after the publication thereof and before noon of the day
    appointed therein.
  5. For the purposes of all elections under this Order, and subject
    to this Order and any other Order in Council which may be in force
    in Samoa, the Acts mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto to the
    extent of the provisions specified in such Schedule shall, as far as
    applicable and with the necessary modifications, be in force in Samoa
    as fully and effectually as if such provisions had been set out and
    incorporated in this Order :
    Provided that every reference in such provisions to “Returning
    Officer” shall be read as a reference to the Returning Officer appointed
    under this Order, and every reference to a “Justice” or “Magistrate”
    shall be read as a reference to a Judge of the High Court, and every
    reference to any “Magistrate's Court” or “Court” shall be read as
    a reference to the High Court; and the words “or a Commissioner of
    the High Court” shall be added after the words “the Returning
    Officer” where they occur in subsection three of section thirteen of
    the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908; and the words “for the
    district” shall be deleted from subsection (c) of section fourteen of the
    last-mentioned Act; and the words “for every vote he is entitled to
    give” shall be deleted from section twenty-one thereof; and the word
    “Samoa” shall be substituted for all the words after “for” in sub-
    clause (a) of subsection one of section twenty-two thereof; and the
    words “in the High Court” shall be substituted for all the words
    after “obtained” in subsection one of section fifty-two thereof; and
    the words “Samoan Treasury” shall be substituted for the word
    “Crown” in subsection two of section fifty-two thereof.


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🌏 External Affairs & Territories
10 September 1923
Samoa, Legislative Council, Elective Membership, Order in Council, Western Samoa, Disqualification, Electors, Qualifications, Electoral Roll, Offences