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MISCELLANEOUS.

21. The amounts payable within the Dominion out of the Advances Account may be forwarded by the Superintendent to the Postmaster-General, to be paid by such Postmasters as the Superintendent requests and as the Postmaster-General authorizes or directs to make such payments, and the Postmasters shall pay such amounts accordingly.

22. Every claim upon the Advances Office must be made in the form and rendered in the manner required by the Superintendent.

23. Any person making a lodgment with a Postmaster of money payable to the Superintendent, or to the Advances Account for credit of that account, shall furnish the Postmaster (on two copies of the form supplied by him for that purpose) with the particulars of the lodgment, and the Postmaster shall thereupon sign and return to such person one of those forms in acknowledgment of the receipt of the lodgment.

24. The manager of the bank at which the Advances Account is kept shall at the close of business every day make up the pass-book of the Advances Account, and send the same to the Superintendent, and at the same time shall send to the Controller and Auditor-General a statement showing the total receipts into, the payments out of, and the balance of that account at the close of each day.

25. A claimant unable personally to apply for payment may, by a special or general order on the form which the Superintendent may supply for the purpose, authorize payment to be made to an agent. A special order shall be on or attached to the claim to which it relates, and a general order shall be recorded in the Advances Office, and quoted on each of the claims to which it applies.

26. In the case of a special or general order given by a Maori not conversant with the English language, that order must be accompanied by the certificate of a licensed interpreter to the effect that he has translated the contents of the order to the Maori, and that the latter understood them.

27. The mark of any payee unable to write, and the mark or signature of every Maori, must be witnessed by a person who, not being the paying officer or agent, is conversant with the English language.

28. The officer or agent authorized to pay a claim on the Advances Office must be satisfied before paying it that the applicant for payment is entitled to receive the amount, and that all necessary documents have been produced.

29. No claim on the Advances Office shall be paid until it has been, to the satisfaction of the Superintendent or his agent, proved and certified to be correct in the manner required by the Superintendent, and receipted by the claimant or by the claimant's duly authorized agent, and until the signature of the payee has been attested when such attestation is required by the Superintendent in accordance with these regulations.

30. The officers and agents of the Superintendent shall be held responsible for all errors in calculation of the accounts or claims which they certify to be correct, and for any loss due to their neglect of these regulations or of the instructions given by the Superintendent.

31. All securities for the investment of moneys belonging to the Advances Account shall be kept under three keys, in the custody respectively of the Accountant of the Advances Office, an Audit officer, and such other officer as the Superintendent may from time to time appoint.

32. The tables set out in the Tenth Schedule hereto are prescribed in addition to the tables set out in the Second Schedule of the said Act.

33. For the efficient administration of the said Act the Superintendent may employ agents to act on his behalf, for all or any of the following purposes :—

    (a) The collection of instalments of principal and interest, or parts thereof, rentals, and other moneys owing by mortgagors, tenants, or other persons to the Superintendent, at such times and intervals and in such manner as the Superintendent may direct.

    (b) The furnishing to the Superintendent of such reports on securities and properties, mortgagors, tenants, or other persons as may be required by the Superintendent.

    (c) The authorizing and supervising of repairs necessary to securities and properties, subject to such limits as the Superintendent may impose.

    (d) Such other matters as the Superintendent may in his discretion deem necessary.

34. The Superintendent may pay to such agents out of the Advances Account such commission or other remuneration as may be agreed upon between him and such agents, and such commission or other remuneration shall be apportioned among the various branches of the Advances Office in such shares as the Superintendent thinks proper.

35. The Superintendent may enter into agreements with agents containing such provisions as he thinks fit, defining the terms on which the agency is to be carried out, the commission or remuneration to be paid to the agent, and providing for such other matters as may in the opinion of the Superintendent be necessary and proper.

SCHEDULES.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS under the New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Act, 1909, dated the 21st August, 1911, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 24th August, 1911, page 2595.

Regulations under the State Advances Act, 1913, dated the 21st November, 1921, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 24th November, 1921, page 2809.