University By-laws




June 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1905

By-laws for the Conduct of Elections of Members of the Council of Canterbury University College.

Approved.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

At a meeting of the College Council on 28th May, 1934, it was resolved (a) that the regulations for the conduct of elections of members of the Board of Governors, as gazetted on page 957 of the New Zealand Gazette, 1897, and on page 865 of the New Zealand Gazette, 1898, be revoked; and (b) that the following new by-laws be substituted therefor:—

  1. For the purpose of the election of members of the Council of the Canterbury University College the Returning Officer shall prepare four electoral rolls, namely:—

(1) A parliamentary electoral roll, in which he shall enter the names, addresses, and descriptions of such of the members of the Legislative Council as for the time being are resident in the Canterbury University District constituted under the New Zealand University Act, 1908, together with such of the members of the House of Representatives as for the time being represent electoral districts within the said University district.

(2) A teachers’ electoral roll, in which he shall enter the names, addresses, and descriptions of the persons whose names are registered in the Teachers’ Register kept by the Director of Education as are for the time being employed in public schools, secondary schools, technical high schools, combined schools, or schools under the control of the Department of Education situated in education districts wholly or partly within the Canterbury University District.

(3) A School Committees’ electoral roll, in which he shall enter the names, addresses, and descriptions of the members of the School Committees for the time being in office for school districts wholly or partly within the Canterbury University District.

(4) A graduates’ electoral roll, in which he shall enter the names, addresses, and descriptions of such of the graduates of the New Zealand University whose names for the time being are on the books of the District Court of Convocation of the Canterbury University District.

  1. The Returning Officer shall prepare, and from time to time amend, the electoral rolls either on his own motion or pursuant to any claim or objection by entering therein or removing therefrom the name of any elector of whose qualification or want of qualification, as the case may be, he is satisfied, and by otherwise correcting any error in any such roll: Provided no person’s name shall be entered in more than one roll.

  2. The electoral rolls, or copies thereof, shall be kept open to public inspection at all reasonable times at such convenient place in the College as the Council appoints in that behalf.

  3. Any person possessing the necessary qualification for enrolment on any roll may make and forward or deliver to the Returning Officer a claim for enrolment in the form or to the effect following:—

CLAIM FOR ENROLMENT AS ELECTOR OF CANTERBURY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

(1) Claimant: [Set out the full name and address of the claimant, thus— A.B., of Christchurch, or as the case may be.]

(2) Qualification: [Set out the qualification, thus—Bachelor of Arts of the New Zealand University duly entered on the books of the District Court of Convocation of the Canterbury University District, or as the case may be.]

(3) Roll in respect whereof this claim is made: [Set out name of roll, thus— Graduates’ electoral roll, or as the case may be.]

The claimant hereby claims to be entered on the above-mentioned roll as an elector of the Canterbury University College.

Dated at , this day of , 19 .

[Signature of the claimant.]

To the Returning Officer of the Canterbury University College.

  1. Any person who is entered in any electoral roll and possesses the necessary qualification in respect of any other electoral roll may make and forward or deliver to the Returning Officer a claim for transfer from the first to the secondly mentioned roll; and on receipt of such claim before either of the said rolls is closed for the purposes of an impending election the Returning Officer, if satisfied that the claimant possesses the necessary qualification, shall transfer his name accordingly.


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