FEB. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Regulations under the Plumbers Registration Act, 1913.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this 10th day of February, 1932.
Present:
THE RIGHT HON. G. W. FORBES, PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by
section sixteen of the Plumbers Registration Act, 1912 (hereinafter referred
to as “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 regulations previously made
under the authority of the said Act, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the
following regulations for matters deemed by the Board necessary and expedient
to give effect to the said Act.

REGULATIONS.
REGULATION 1.—PRELIMINARY.
(1) These regulations may be cited as “The Plumbers Regulations, 1931.”
(2) These regulations shall come into force, and the revocation hereinbefore
enacted shall take effect, on the day following the publication hereof in the
Gazette, save that the revocation of any regulation heretofore in force prescribing
districts or localities for the purposes of paragraph (d) of section 16 of the said
Act shall take effect after six months from the date of the coming into force of
these regulations, but not sooner.
(3) In these regulations, “Director-General” means the Director-General of
Health appointed under the Health Act, 1920.
(4) The determination of the Board on any matter confided to it under the
said Act or these regulations shall be sufficiently authenticated if set out in
writing signed by the Chairman or the Secretary of the Board.
(5) Generally all notices, periods, matters, and things which originated under
the regulations hereby revoked, or any regulations previously in force, shall
endure for the purposes of these regulations as if they had originated under these
regulations and shall, where necessary, be deemed to have so originated.
(6) The Board may from time to time procure the appointment of some
officer of the Public Service to be the Secretary of the Board, and the fact that
any person describes himself in any document or signs any document as the
Secretary of the Board shall be prima facie evidence that he is the Secretary of
the Board for the time being appointed.
(7) Any notice to be given by the Board under these regulations shall be
sufficient if given in writing, sent by ordinary prepaid letter post, and shall be
deemed to have been so given at the time when in the course of post it would
be delivered at the address to which it is sent.
(8) A notification in the Gazette of the appointment or election of a member
of the Board shall be sufficient if signed by the Director-General.

REGULATION 2.—APPOINTMENT OF AN ENGINEER AS MEMBER OF BOARD.
(1) Within one month of the time when a vacancy occurs in the seat of
the member, who, holding in New Zealand the position of Engineer to a Borough
Council or Drainage Board, has been appointed under paragraph (c) of sub-
section (1) of section 3 of the said Act, the Director-General shall send a notice
to the Municipal Association of New Zealand, the Christchurch Drainage Board,
and the Dunedin Drainage and Sewerage Board, inviting them respectively to
furnish the names of one or more persons holding the required qualification and
suitable for appointment as a member of the Board.
(2) The name of any person so furnished shall be taken into consideration
in any recommendation for an appointment made to the Governor-General.

REGULATION 3.—ELECTION OF A MASTER PLUMBER AND A JOURNEYMAN PLUMBER
AS MEMBERS OF BOARD.
(1) Within one month of the time when a vacancy occurs by effluxion of
time in the seat of the member elected by it the Federated Association of Master
Plumbers or the Federated Association of Journeymen Plumbers respectively,
as the case requires, shall elect one person (being a master plumber or a journey-
man plumber, as the case may be) to be a member of the Board.
(2) Every such election shall be conducted in accordance with the following
rules:
(a) Such association shall forward to every union affiliated with it a notice
inviting each such union to nominate, on or before noon on a con-
venient day to be specified in the notice, one person (being a master
plumber or a journeyman plumber, as the case may be) for election
as member of the Board.
(b) Every union may by resolution nominate such person, and shall transmit
to the association, on or before the date and hour specified in the
notice requesting nominations, the name and address of the person so
nominated, together with his consent to act on the Board in the event
of his election thereto; and shall at the same time notify the association
of the total number of the members of the union qualified to vote
at meetings thereof.
(c) If more than one person be so nominated then, as soon as practicable
after the date fixed for the closing of nominations, the association shall
transmit to each affiliated union as many ballot-papers as there are
members of the union qualified to vote, together with an envelope
for each such ballot-paper, addressed to the President of the association,
and marked on the outside with the word “Ballot-paper.” Every such