SAPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1938.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1938.
Notice respecting Offences at Maori Elections.
Chief Electoral Office,
Wellington, 22nd September, 1938.
THE following extracts from the Electoral Act, 1927, are
published for general information:
Deputy Returning Officer may arrest any person guilty of personation.
193. (1) Every Deputy Returning Officer may, without any
other warrant than this Act, cause to be arrested and taken
before a Justice any person reasonably suspected of com-
mitting or attempting to commit at a polling-place any act
of personation.
(2) It shall be the duty of the Returning Officer to insti-
tute a prosecution against any person whom he believes to
have committed the offence of personation, or of aiding,
abetting, counselling, or procuring the commission of that
offence by any person, at the election for which he is Returning
Officer.
Punishment of personation.
(3) Every person who commits the offence of personation,
or of aiding, abetting, counselling, or procuring the commis-
sion of that offence, is liable to two years' imprisonment with
or without hard labour.
Costs and expenses of prosecution to be allowed.
(4) The costs and expenses of the prosecutor and the
witnesses in such case, together with compensation for their
trouble and loss of time, shall be allowed by the Court.
Personation defined.
(5) Every person commits the offence of personation who
at any election applies to vote in the names of some other
person, living or dead. or of a fictitious person, or who,
having voted once at any such election, applies again at the
same election to vote in his own name.
G. G. HODGKINS, Chief Electoral Officer.
He Whakaatu i nga Mea ka kiia he Hara ki te mahia i nga
Pootitanga Maori.
Tari Tumuaki Whakahaere Pooti,
Poneke, 22 o Hepitema, 1938.
K O nga wahi o te Ture Pooti Mema mo te Paremete,
1927, e whai ake nei, tenei ka perehitia hei matau-
ranga mo kaota:
Ka ahei te Teputi Apiha Whakahaere Pooti ki te hopu i te tangata e
mahi ana i te hara pahoneihana.
193. (1) Ia Teputi Apiha Whakahaere Pooti ka ahei,
ahakoa kaore he whakamananga ketanga atu i tua atu i
tenei Ture, ki te whakahau kia hopukia a kia haria atu
hoki ki te aroaro o tetahi Kai-whakawa ia tangata e ata
tika ana kia whakapaea i mahi i tahuri ranei ki te mahi
i roto i tetahi whare-pooti i tetahi mahi pahoneihana.
(2) Me tahuri te Apiha Whakahaere Pooti ki te
whakaara whakawa mo ia tangata e maharatia ana e ai
kua mahi hara pahonehana, kua awhina ranei, kua
tautoko, kua tohutohu, kua whakahaere ranei i te mahinga
o tetahi hara pera e tetahi atu tangata, i te wa o te
pootitanga e tu ana ia he Apiha Whakahaere Pooti.
Te whiu mo te hara pahoneihana.
(3) Ia tangata e mahi ana i te hara pahoneihana e awhina
ana ranei, e tautoko ana, e tohutohu ana, e whakahaere
ana ranei kia mahia taua tu hara e tetahi atu tangata, ka
ahei kia whiua ki te herehere mo nga tau e rua, me te mahi
taumaha kaore ranei.
Ka whakaaetia nga utu o te whakawakanga.
(4) Ko nga moni (costs) me nga moni i pau i te taha ki
te kai-tono whakawa me nga kai-korero i rato i taua keehi
hui atu hoki ki nga moni kapeneheihana mo to ratou raruraru
me te paunga o to ratou taima, me whakaae e te Kooti.
Whakamaramatanga o tenei kupu o te "pahoneihana."
(5) Kua hara te tangata i te hara pahoneihana mehemea
ka tonai i rato i tetahi pootitanga kia pooti ia i runga i
te ingoa o tetahi tangata ke atu, ahakoa kei te ora, kua
mata atu ranei, o tetahi tangata hanga nca atu ranei, a
mehemea ranei kua kotahi tana pootitanga i rato i tetahi
pootitanga pera ka tono ia kia pooti ano ia i roto i taua
pootitanga nei ano i runga i tona ingoa ake.
G. G. HODGKINS,
Tumuaki Apiha Whakahaere Pooti.