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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 86

Regulations prescribing the Manner of taking the Votes of
Producers for the Purpose of the Election of Members of the
New Zealand Honey Control Board.—Notice No. Ag. 2546.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 21st day
of December, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. G. COATES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him
by the Honey Export Control Act, 1924 (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 that
Dominion, doth hereby revoke the Order in Council made and
gazetted on the twenty-second day of December, one thousand
nine hundred and twenty-four, making regulations prescribing
the manner of taking votes of producers for the purpose of
the election of members of the New Zealand Honey Control
Board, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the following
regulations; and doth order that such revocation and the
regulations hereby made shall come into force on the date of
the publication hereof in the Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

1. PRELIMINARY.

(1.) THESE regulations may be cited as “The New Zealand
Honey Control Board Election Regulations, 1925.”
(2.) In these regulations, where not inconsistent with the
context,
“The Board” means the New Zealand Honey Control
Board;
“The Minister” means the Minister of Agriculture :
“The Producer” means a person carrying on business as a
producer of honey for sale and being the occupier
of an apiary registered under the Apiaries Amendment
Act, 1913, and from which at least 2 cwt. of honey,
the produce of that apiary, were exported from New
Zealand in any one of the three years immediately
preceding the year in which an election is held ;
“Roll” means the roll of producers described in Regulation No. 3 hereof.
(3.) Unless the contrary intention appears, expressions used
herein have the same meaning as in the said Act.

2. RETURNING OFFICER.

For the purpose of taking votes of producers and of conducting elections and polls under the said Act, the Minister
shall appoint a Returning Officer, who shall make all necessary
arrangements.

3. ROLL.

(1.) For the purpose of every election of a producers’
representative the Returning Officer shall prepare a roll of
producers.
(2.) Such roll shall contain in alphabetical order the surnames of the producers entered thereon, together with their
first names and addresses so far as known to the Returning
Officer, and the names entered shall be numbered consecutively.
(3.) Such roll shall be compiled from the nominal list of
exporters of honey in the possession of the Department of
Agriculture, but the Returning Officer may exclude from the
roll the name of any person appearing in the said list whom
he has reason to believe nevertheless not qualified to vote
as a producer at the next succeeding election, and may add
to the roll the name of any person not appearing in the said
list whom he has reason to believe qualified so to vote.
(4.) The entry of the name of any person entitled to vote
by virtue of the provisions of subsection (6) of section 4 of
the said Act shall be followed by the words “appointed by
[Name of corporate body].

4. NOMINATIONS.

(1.) No person shall be eligible for election as a producers’
representative unless he has been nominated by one or more
producers, and he has accepted nomination in writing or by
telegraph.
(2.) The form of nomination shall be in the form No. 1
in the Schedule hereto, or to the effect thereof.
(3.) The last day and hour for receiving nominations shall
be the 21st day of December in each year at noon.
(4.) Nothing in these regulations shall prevent the Returning
Officer from accepting a nomination-paper made out in such
form as, in his opinion, is sufficient to identify the candidate
and at least one nominator.

(5.) No producer shall be entitled to nominate more than
one person for election.
(6.) If only one person is so nominated as producers’
representative, such person shall be deemed to have been
duly elected, and shall be declared elected by the Returning
Officer by notice in the Gazette.

5. POLL.

(1.) If more persons than one are so nominated, the
Returning Officer shall cause voting-papers to be printed
in the form No. 2 in the Schedule hereto.
(2.) The Returning Officer shall forward by post, addressed
to each voter at the address appearing on the roll, a voting-
paper in the said form No. 2, together with an envelope
addressed to the Returning Officer and bearing on its face the
consecutive number appearing on the roll against the name
of the voter to whom the voting-paper is forwarded.
(3.) On proof to his satisfaction by statutory declaration
or otherwise that a voter has not received his voting-paper in
due course of post, the Returning Officer may issue a further
voting-paper to such voter in such manner as he thinks fit,
together with an envelope addressed as aforesaid and bearing
on its face the number aforesaid with an additional
distinguishing mark to indicate its issue under this clause.
(4.) No voting-paper shall be valid unless it is received by
the Returning Officer in the envelope issued with such voting-
paper as aforesaid.
(5.) Voting-papers may be delivered to the Returning
Officer by hand or sent by post addressed as provided by the
said Form No. 2.
(6.) The poll shall close at noon on the 11th day of January
in the year for which the election is held, and no voting-paper
shall be valid which is not received by the Returning Officer
at or before noon on that day.

6. RESULT OF ELECTION.

(1.) Forthwith upon the closing of the poll the Returning
Officer shall compare the numbers on the envelopes received
with the numbers on the roll, and shall reject any voting-
paper not appearing to him to be the genuine voting-paper of
a person enrolled as a voter, and shall then obliterate every
number and distinguishing-mark on the remaining envelopes.
(2.) The Returning Officer shall then open the remaining
envelopes and ascertain the number of votes received by each
candidate.
(3.) Where there is an equality of votes between any
candidates and the addition of a vote would entitle one of such
candidates to be declared elected, the Returning Officer shall
give a casting vote.
(4.) Subject to the foregoing provisions, the candidate
required to be elected who has received the greatest number
of votes shall be declared elected by the Returning Officer by
notice in the Gazette.
(5.) The name of the elected candidate shall thereupon be
submitted to the Governor-General for appointment as
representative of the producers on the Board pursuant to
section 4 of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

[Form No. 1.

NOMINATION OF PRODUCERS’ REPRESENTATIVE ON NEW
ZEALAND HONEY CONTROL BOARD.

To the Returning Officer, New Zealand Honey Control
Board Election, Wellington.

I [We], the undersigned producer [producers] within the
meaning of the Honey Control Board Election Regulations,
1925, do hereby nominate A. B. [Full name], of [Residence
and occupation], with his consent, as a candidate at the election
of a member of the New Zealand Honey Control Board.

Dated at this day of , 192

[Full names, residence, and occupation
of one or more producers.]

I, A. B. [Full name], do hereby consent to the above nomination.

A. B. [Residence and occupation].

[Form No. 2.

VOTING-PAPER.

New Zealand Honey Control Board.

ELECTION OF PRODUCERS’ REPRESENTATIVE TO BOARD.

ARMSTRONG, THOMAS.
BURTON, GERALD.