2708
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 62

AUTHENTICATION OF ROLL.

12. The Board shall at a sitting of the Board held in the month of September (being not later than the 12th day thereof) amend the electors list by correcting every error found in such list; and the Secretary shall initial every alteration so made in the electors list, which shall thereupon be authenticated in the manner prescribed by Regulation 13 hereof.

13. (1) The electors list and every supplementary electors list, and every roll or supplementary roll made pursuant to the said Act or these regulations shall be authenticated by being certified to be correct by the Chairman of the Board and two members.

(2) Where from any cause the foregoing provisions of this regulation cannot be complied with such lists or rolls may be authenticated by the Secretary, who shall append the following certificate thereto:—

“Certified pursuant to Regulation 13 of regulations under the Christchurch Tramway Act, 1920, to be correct.
……………, Secretary.”

14. Additions to the electors list after the 1st day of September aforesaid shall be made by means of one or more supplementary lists, which shall be open for inspection in the office of the Secretary during office hours without fee by all persons interested therein, and every such supplementary list shall be corrected where necessary, and shall be authenticated in the manner prescribed by Regulation 13 hereof, and shall thereupon be a supplementary electors roll, and be deemed to be incorporated with the original electors roll.

OBJECTIONS.

15. Forthwith upon the authentication of the electoral roll pursuant to Regulation 13 hereof the Secretary shall give public notice that the roll has been so authenticated, and is open for inspection (without fee) at his office by all persons interested, and that objections thereto must be made within fourteen days from a date to be named therein, being the date of first publication of such notice, and the Secretary shall keep the said roll in his office and allow it to be inspected (without fee) by all persons interested during office hours during the fourteen days aforesaid.

16. All objections under section 12 of the said Act shall be made in writing in the form numbered 2 in the Schedule hereto, and shall be addressed to the Secretary and delivered at his office within the period of fourteen days aforesaid.

17. The Secretary shall make and sign a list of all such objections in the form numbered 3 in the Schedule hereto, and shall keep such list in his office, and allow it to be inspected (without fee) by any person interested therein during office hours within the fourteen days aforesaid and the two next succeeding working-days.

APPEALS.

18. When the Board has disposed of any objection pursuant to subsection (2) of section 12 of the said Act the Secretary shall give notice thereof to the persons affected. Such notice shall be sufficient if sent by registered post letter addressed in the case of an elector to the address appearing on the roll, and in the case of an objector to the address appearing on the form of objection prescribed by Regulation 16 hereof, and shall be deemed to be received when it would reach its address in the ordinary course of registered post.

19. Appeals to a Magistrate under section 14 of the said Act against the electors roll may be made as follows:—

(a) An objection in writing under the hand of the appellant shall be lodged by him with the Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court nearest to the public office of the Board not later than seven days after receipt of the notice from the Secretary prescribed by Regulation 18 hereof, and a copy of that objection shall also be lodged by the appellant with the Secretary not later than seven days after receipt of the said notice from the Secretary.

(b) The objection shall be in the said form numbered 2 in the Schedule hereto, or as near thereto as may be.

(c) The Magistrate shall hear and determine the appeal at such convenient place and time, not being later than the 30th day of October, as he appoints, and not less than three days’ notice shall be given by the Clerk of the said Court to the Board and to the appellant of the date so appointed.

20. Appeals to a Magistrate under section 14 of the said Act against a supplementary electors roll or roll under Regulation 23 of these regulations may be made as follows:—

(a) An objection in writing under the hand of the appellant shall be lodged by him with the Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court nearest to the public office of the Board not later than the day on which the electors roll is, by section 15 of the said Act, closed for the purpose of any election or poll, and not later than that day a copy of that objection shall be lodged by the appellant with the Secretary.

(b) The objection shall be in the said form numbered 2 in the Schedule hereto, or as near thereto as may be.

(c) The Magistrate shall appoint a day, being not later than three days after the day on which the electors roll is by section 15 of the said Act closed for the hearing and determining thereof, and notice of the day so appointed shall be given by the Clerk of the said Court to the Board and to the appellant.

ISSUE OF ROLLS.

21. As soon as practicable copies of the electors roll shall be printed by the Board and supplied with its supplement or supplements to any person applying for same on payment of 1s. A copy of the electors roll and all its supplements, when printed, and also the original roll, whether in card form or otherwise, shall be kept open for inspection at the office of the Secretary during office hours, without fee.

22. In case the electors roll is not, from any cause whatever, made out and completed so as to come into force at the prescribed time, the roll then in force shall (unless the time for making out and completing a new roll is extended) be in force until another electors roll comes into force for the said district.

ROLLS FOR SPECIAL POLL.

23. When any roll of ratepayers is required for the purpose of a poll under the provisions of section 2 of the Christchurch Tramway District Amendment Act, 1926, such roll shall be prepared by striking out from the district electors roll and from every supplementary district electors roll in force, the name of every person whose name appears on such rolls and who is not entitled to vote at such a poll, and also the name of every other person whose name already appears elsewhere on such rolls.

24. Supplementary ratepayers lists for the purpose of any such poll shall be prepared in manner prescribed by Regulation 14 hereof.

25. The fact that a ratepayers roll is being prepared for the purpose of such poll shall be publicly notified prior to the date fixed for deposit of the said list as next hereinafter prescribed.

26. The ratepayers roll prepared for the purpose of such poll shall be deposited for public inspection at the office of the Board not later than five o’clock in the afternoon of the twenty-first day preceding the day of the said poll, and shall remain so deposited until the time when the said roll is by section 15 of the said Act closed for the purpose of the poll, and public notice of that deposit shall be given on not less than three days during the period of such deposit.

OFFENCES.

27. The Secretary is liable to a penalty not exceeding £5 in every case where he refuses, without good cause, or wilfully neglects, or unreasonably delays to place on the electors’ list the name of any person who makes written claim for enrolment as provided for by Regulation 2 of these regulations, or refuses, wilfully neglects, or unreasonably delays to faithfully and promptly perform any other duty imposed on him by the said Act or these regulations.

28. If the Board fails or unreasonably delays to keep at the Secretary’s office a supply of blank printed claim forms for the free use of claimants as provided by Regulation 3 of these regulations, or to faithfully and promptly perform any other duty imposed on it by the said Act or these regulations, every person, whether the Secretary or any member of the Board, who is party to or responsible for such failure or delay is severally liable to a penalty not exceeding £5.

29. Notwithstanding anything contained in these regulations, any part of any electors list or electors roll may, when necessary for the purpose of printing, be placed in the hands of a printer during the period in which such list or roll is notified as being open for inspection, but in any such case facilities shall be given by the Board for any person wishing to inspect any part of such list or roll in the hands of a printer to do so.

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SCHEDULE.

THE CHRISTCHURCH TRAMWAY DISTRICT ACT, 1920.
[Form No. 1.

Claim for Enrolment.

To the Secretary, Christchurch Tramway Board.

I, the undersigned, hereby claim to be enrolled on the electors list of the subdistrict named below on the grounds hereunder set forth.

(1) The qualification is possessed by me in my own right;

or

(2) The qualification is possessed by me in the right of my husband [or wife] whose full name is
.