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SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1929.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1929

Music-teachers Registration Act, 1928. — Regulations for the First Election of Members of the Music-teachers Registration Board.

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 11th day of February, 1929.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Music-teachers Registration Act, 1928, and all other powers and authorities 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 the said Dominion, doth hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto for the first election of members of the Music-teachers Registration Board by members of the incorporated societies of professional music-teachers or musicians recognized for the purpose; and, with the like advice and consent, doth prescribe that this Order shall come into force on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine.

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SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS FOR THE FIRST ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE MUSIC-TEACHERS REGISTRATION BOARD BY MEMBERS OF RECOGNIZED INCORPORATED SOCIETIES OF PROFESSIONAL MUSIC-TEACHERS OR MUSICIANS.

1. In this Schedule—
   “Act” means the Music-teachers Registration Act, 1928;
   “Board” means the Music-teachers Registration Board constituted under the Act;
   “Election” means the first election of members of the Music-teachers Registration Board constituted under the Act;
   “Elector” means a person whose name duly appears on the electoral roll at the time when it is closed for the purposes of the election;
   “Recognized society” means an incorporated society of professional music-teachers or musicians recognized for the purpose of the election by the Minister under section 3 (6) of the Act;
   “District” means one of the four districts into which New Zealand is divided by section 3 (4) of the Act for the purpose of elections of members of the Board.

2. For the purpose of the election the Secretary of the Education Department shall be the Returning Officer.

3. The secretaries of recognized societies shall forward to the Returning Officer, in order to reach him on or before the 8th day of March, 1929, lists showing the names and addresses of all persons who on the 28th day of February, 1929, are members of the respective societies.

4. Immediately after the 8th day of March, 1929, the Returning Officer shall group the names of members shown in the lists referred to in the preceding clause into the districts specified in section 3 (4) of the Act, and the names as so arranged shall form the electoral roll for the election:
   Provided that the Returning Officer shall, in addition to the said names, place on the electoral roll the name of any person who shall, prior to the time upon which it is directed that nominations shall close as set out in subclause (4) of clause 7 hereof, prove to the satisfaction of the Returning Officer that he was, on the 28th day of February, 1929, a member of a recognized society.

5. The roll shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection in the hands of the Returning Officer by any person whose name is entered therein, and by any person representing to the Returning Officer that he is entitled to have his name entered therein.

6. Any question that arises touching the right of any person to have his name entered in or retained on the roll shall be decided by the Returning Officer, and his decision shall be final.