914
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 21

is to be issued is a fit and proper person to hold or be named in such license, and dishonesty shall in all cases be a disqualification from holding or being named in a license.

9. On the refusal of any person authorized so to do to issue a license under these regulations it shall be lawful for any person affected by such refusal to appeal against such refusal to the High Court of the Cook Islands whose decision in the matter shall be final.

10. If the holder of any license or any person named in any license shall be convicted of any offence involving dishonesty, the Court may order the cancellation of such license so far as such person is concerned.

11. The Resident Commissioner or the Resident Agent of any island if he is of opinion that any person holding or named in a license is no longer a fit and proper person to hold or be named in such license, may at any time, by notice in writing to the person to whom such license is issued, declare that at the expiration of seven days from the date of such notice the said license shall be cancelled as regards the person holding the same or named therein, as the case may be.

12. Unless within the said seven days an appeal shall have been instituted as provided by clause 14 of these regulations, such license shall, upon the expiration of the said period of seven days, be deemed as regards the person holding the same or named therein, as the case may be, to be cancelled accordingly.

13. It shall not be necessary for the Resident Commissioner or Resident Agent so acting to give notice to any person concerned of his intention to act under clause 11 of these regulations.

14. Any person affected by cancellation under clause 11 of these regulations may within the time aforesaid appeal to the said Court against such cancellation, and the decision of the said Court shall be final.

15. Upon any cancellation pursuant to these regulations the person holding the license affected shall forthwith, whenever required by notice in writing so to do, produce such license to the said Court or to the Resident Commissioner or the Resident Agent, as the case may be, for the purpose of being surrendered or of having a memorandum of cancellation as regards any person written thereon, as the case may require.

16. In Rarotonga the Inspector, and in each island other than Rarotonga the Resident Agent, shall keep a register containing particulars of all licenses issued under these regulations in such form as the Resident Commissioner may from time to time prescribe.

17. Every buyer of fruit intended for export otherwise than as provided for in subclause (2) of clause 5 of these regulations shall hold a license, to be called a principal buyer’s license, which shall be obtainable under the following conditions :—

(a.) Application for such license shall be made in writing to the Resident Commissioner or to the Resident Agent of any island.

(b.) Every such license shall apply to all islands of the Cook Group (subject, however, to the provisions of subclause (5) of clause 1 hereof).

(c.) There shall be payable in respect of every such license a fee of £1.

(d.) No such license shall be transferable.

18. Every holder of a principal buyer’s license shall be entitled to employ a person or persons to buy fruit on his behalf in accordance with the following provisions :—

(a.) Such holder of a principal buyer’s license shall apply to a Fruit Inspector or to the Resident Agent of any island for a license to employ any person, including his branch manager or other servant, to buy fruit on his behalf.

(b.) Save as hereinafter provided, separate licenses shall be necessary in each island.

(c.) There shall be payable in respect of each buyer named in such license a fee of ten shillings, but a license may be issued available for all islands of the Group upon payment of a fee of one pound in respect of each buyer named in such license.

(d.) With the approval of a Fruit Inspector or a Resident Agent the name of another buyer may, by endorsement on the license, be substituted for that of any buyer already named in the license.

(e.) A license issued under the provisions of this clause shall be the property of the principal buyer.