APRIL 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 913

Cook Islands Fruit Regulations Amendment, 1926.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 30th day of March, 1926.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section fifty-three of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, to make all such regulations as he thinks necessary for the peace, order, or good government of the Cook Islands, and of every other power enabling him in this behalf, 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 make to the Cook Islands Fruit Regulations, 1916, and the Cook Islands Fruit Regulations Amendment, 1922, respectively, hereinafter referred to, the amendments hereinafter set out.

REGULATIONS.

PART I. GENERAL.

1. (1.) The regulations made by Order in Council on the 9th day of June, 1916, and published in the Gazette on the 29th day of June, 1916, at page, 2201, providing for the inspection and fumigation of fruit intended for export from the Cook Islands, for the eradication of diseases affecting plants, and for cognate matters, may be cited as "The Cook Islands Fruit Regulations, 1916."

(2.) The regulations made by Order in Council on the 19th day of April, 1922, and published in the Gazette on the 27th day of April, 1922, at page 1202, in amendment of the Cook Islands Fruit Regulations, 1916, may be cited as "The Cook Islands Fruit Regulations Amendment, 1922."

(3.) These regulations may be cited as "The Cook Islands Fruit Regulations Amendment, 1926."

(4.) These regulations shall be read together with and form part of the Cook Islands Fruit Regulations, 1916, and the Cook Islands Fruit Regulations Amendment, 1922.

(5.) Nothing in these regulations shall apply to or within the Island of Niue.

2. In particular all the provisions of the Cook Islands Fruit Regulations, 1916, relating to offences and penalties shall apply to these regulations.

PART II.—LICENSING OF FRUIT BUYERS.

3. The regulations comprised in Part II hereof shall come into force on the 1st day of April, 1926.

4. Clause 26 of the Cook Islands Fruit Regulations, 1916, is hereby revoked, and the provisions contained in Part II hereof enacted in lieu thereof.

5. (1.) No person shall buy fruit intended for export, whether on his own account or in partnership with any other person or as manager, agent, servant, or employee of any person, firm, or corporation unless he is the holder of a license issued pursuant to clause 17 hereof.

(2.) Notwithstanding the foregoing provision, any person who is in the actual employment of a person holding a license issued pursuant to the provisions of clause 17 hereof may on behalf of such person buy fruit intended for export if he is named in a license issued pursuant to the provisions of clause 18 hereof.

(3.) The holding of any trading license issued under any regulations for the time being in force in respect of trading licenses shall not dispense with the necessity of obtaining or being named in a license under these regulations.

6. All licenses issued under these regulations shall be in such form as the Resident Commissioner may from time to time prescribe, and shall be signed by the Resident Commissioner or by the Resident Agent of any island.

7. Every license issued under these regulations shall expire on the 31st day of March following the date of issue of such license.

8. The person issuing any license shall before issuing the same satisfy himself that the person to or in respect of whom the license