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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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The Unemployment Levy Regulations, 1930.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 25th day
of November, 1930.
Present:
THE HON. SIR APIRANA NGATA, PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers in this behalf
conferred upon him by the Unemployment Act, 1930
(hereinafter called "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 make the following
regulations for the purposes of the said Act, and doth hereby
declare that these regulations shall come into force on the
date of the publication thereof in the Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

1. THESE regulations may be cited as "The Unemployment
   Levy Regulations, 1930."
2. In these regulations-
   "Authorized officer" includes any Postmaster, any
   officer of the Post and Telegraph Department,
   and any other person authorized for the time being
   under the said Act to receive the annual levy or
   any instalment thereof and to give a valid receipt
   therefor:
   "Last day for payment," in relation to any instalment,
   means the last day prescribed by the said Act for
   payment without default of an instalment of the
   said levy which any person is liable to pay, or would,
   but for temporary exemption under subsection (2)
   of section 7 of the said Act, be liable to pay :
   "Person liable" means any person required to be re-
   gistered under the said Act who is not wholly exempt
   from the payment of the unemployment levy,
   irrespective of any temporary exemption; and in-
   cludes any Native who, with the consent of the
   Board, elects to become a contributor to the Un-
   employment Fund ; and also includes a person
   acting on behalf of any person liable :
   "Substituted book" means a book of coupons obtained
   pursuant to clause 18 of these regulations.
3. Every person liable shall, not later than the last day
   for payment of the first instalment of the said levy, present
   his certificate of registration at a money-order office.
4. Every person liable shall, on presentation of his certi-
   ficate as aforesaid, obtain a book containing coupons, each
   coupon relating to one quarterly instalment of the unemploy-
   ment levy.
5. On payment of any instalment of the levy every con-
   tributor shall present to an authorized officer his book of
   coupons or a substituted book.
6. The coupon for each instalment paid shall be detached
   and retained by the authorized officer, who shall furnish
   a receipt on the counterfoil for the amount of each such
   instalment and any penalty paid for delayed payment.
7. Except in cases where the collection of an instalment
   is arranged by an employer on behalf of a contributor, every
   contributor shall, upon paying any instalment of the levy,
   furnish, on the relative coupon, his name and address and
   the name and address of his employer, if any.
8. Every person liable claiming temporary exemption in
   respect of any instalment as an inmate of an institution
   within the meaning of paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of
   section 7 of the said Act, shall, within seven days after the last
   day for payment of such instalment, produce to an authorized
   officer, together with his book of coupons or a substituted
   book, evidence in writing to the satisfaction of the Board
   from a responsible official of such institution that such person
   liable was an inmate thereof on the due date of such instalment
   and for one month thereafter.
9. Every person liable claiming temporary exemption in
   respect of any instalment as a student of any educational
   institution within the meaning of paragraph (b) of subsection
   (2) of section 7 of the said Act, and not being in receipt of
   salary or wages, shall, not later than the last day for payment
   of such instalment, produce to an authorized officer, together
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   with his book of coupons or a substituted book, evidence in
   writing to the satisfaction of the Board from a responsible
   official of such educational institution that such person liable
   was a student thereof on the due date of such instalment,
   and shall, on production of such book and evidence, himself
   certify in writing to the satisfaction of the Board that he
   was not in receipt of salary or wages.
10. The Board may at any time require any person liable
    who has claimed temporary exemption in respect of any
    instalment to produce such further evidence as the Board
    may reasonably require in support of the claim for exemption.
11. On production to an authorized officer of the book
    and evidence referred to in clause 8 or clause 9 of these
    regulations (as the case may be) the authorized officer shall
    detach the appropriate coupon, endorse the counterfoil
    "Exempt," and sign his name to such endorsement, and
    affix thereto an impression of the date-stamp in the spaces
    provided.
12. Any such endorsement made in error, or upon mis-
    representation, or upon evidence considered by the Board or
    an authorized officer to be insufficient, may at any time be
    cancelled.
13. Any such endorsement may in the absence of cancellation be accepted by an employer or intending employer
    as prima facie evidence that such contributor was exempt
    from the payment of the instalment of the levy to which such
    endorsement refers.
14. The secretary, manager, or other person having ad-
    ministrative control of any institution in which there are
    persons liable who are entitled to temporary exemption as
    inmates thereof shall, not later than the fourth day of the
    months of April, July, October, and January, furnish to the
    nearest money-order office a list showing the names and
    addresses, if known, of inmates entitled to temporary exemp-
    tion from payment of the instalment of the levy payable on
    the first day of the immediately preceding months of March,
    June, September, and December respectively.
15. Any person who is wholly exempt shall make such
    declaration as may be required by the Board of his exemp-
    tion from the payment of the levy, and in such declaration
    shall state the reason for such exemption.
16. Every person who is wholly exempt and whose
    exemption lapses for any reason whatever shall immediately
    apply to the nearest money-order office for the issue of a book
    of coupons, and shall, from the date on which such exemption
    lapses, become a contributor to the Unemployment Fund.
17. Every Native within the meaning of the Native Land
    Act, 1909, who desires to become a contributor to the Un-
    employment Fund shall notify his election in writing to the
    Board, and if the consent of the Board is given thereto shall
    become liable as a contributor from the date on which such
    election and consent take effect.
18. Any person requiring a substituted book to replace a
    book lost, destroyed, or dilapidated, may make application
    at any money-order office. Pending the issue of a substituted
    book, the applicant will be furnished with an acknowledgment
    of such application, and such acknowledgment, if duly signed
    by the Postmaster and date-stamped in the space provided,
    may be accepted by an employer or intending employer for
    the period stated therein as prima facie evidence that instal-
    ments have been paid to the date stated in such notification,
    or that temporary exemption exists in respect of instalments
    payable to the date so stated, as the case may be. The fee
    for the issue of a substituted book shall be one shilling.
19. Each substituted book shall contain a certificate in-
    dicating the date up to which the levy has been paid, and such
    certificate shall be evidence of the payment of instalments
    payable up to the date so stated.
20. The production of a book of coupons or substituted book
    to any employer or intending employer may be accepted as
    evidence that the contributor named therein is duly registered
    under the said Act.
21. On payment of the last instalment in relation to
    which a coupon is inserted in his book of coupons (or in the
    case of a person claiming temporary exemption on producing
    evidence of temporary exemption from liability for that
    instalment), every person required to be registered under
    this Act who is not wholly exempt from payment of the levy
    shall obtain a further book containing coupons relating to
    subsequent quarterly instalments.
    A. W. MULLIGAN,
    Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.