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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 23

Regulations under the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1926.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this 13th day of April, 1927.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1926 (hereinafter termed “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 the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke all existing regulations made under the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, and its amendments, and doth hereby make the regulations hereinafter set forth. For the purpose thereof “Board” shall mean a Hospital Board constituted under the said Act.

REGULATIONS.

Representation of Contributing Local Authorities on Hospital Boards.

1. Where there is more than one Returning Officer for a contributory district, the Returning Officer for the subdivision of the district in which or nearest to which the public office of the contributory local authority is situated shall be the Returning Officer for the purpose of elections of representatives of that contributory district.

2. As soon as conveniently may be after ascertaining the result of any election the Returning Officer therefor shall notify the Minister of that result.

3. Subject to the express provisions of these regulations, the election of representatives of a combined district shall be held under the provisions of the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, and that Act shall apply accordingly as if such combined district were a district within the meaning thereof.

4. Every candidate at any such election of representatives of a combined district shall, at the time of nomination, deposit the sum of £3 with the Returning Officer, and if that candidate does not receive one-eighth of the votes received by the successful candidate or, as the case may be, by the successful candidate receiving the fewest votes, the deposit shall be forfeited to the principal contributory local authority and applied towards the cost of the election; but otherwise, or if the candidate is elected without a poll or duly withdraws his nomination, the deposit shall be returned to the person who paid it.

5. The Returning Officer of the principal contributory local authority or, where there is more than one Returning Officer, the Returning Officer for the subdivision of the district in which or nearest to which the public office of that local authority is situated shall be the Returning Officer for the election of representatives of the combined district.

6. The several electors rolls of the districts included in the combined district shall together be the electoral roll for the purposes of the election: Provided that every elector on those rolls shall have one vote only at the election.

7. The contributory local authorities of the combined district shall, on or before the day fixed for nominations, supply the Returning Officer with as many copies of the electors rolls of their districts as he may require for the purposes of the election.

8. The Returning Officer shall provide such polling-booths throughout the combined district as he considers necessary, and shall appoint as many Deputy Returning Officers and poll-clerks as are required for the effective taking of the poll of every polling-booth.

9. The poll shall close throughout the combined district at the hour at which it closes in the district of the principal contributory local authority.

Election of Local Committee of Management of the Waimate Hospital.

10. The members of the local committee of management of the Waimate Hospital shall be elected by the electors of the County of Waimate in the manner provided by the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, for the election of members of the County and Borough Councils respectively.