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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 1

The Christchurch Tramway Emergency Regulations 1940.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 24th day of December, 1940.

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. P. FRASER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise of the powers in that behalf conferred upon him by the Emergency Regulations Act, 1939, section forty of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1939, and all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby for the purposes of the general election of members of the Christchurch Tramway Board to be held on the fourteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and forty-one, modify the provisions of the Christchurch Tramway District Act, 1920, and of the regulations under the said Act, made on the fourth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the fourth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, at page 2707, as follows:—

REGULATIONS.

1. These regulations may be cited as the Christchurch Tramway Emergency Regulations 1940.

2. These regulations shall come into force on the day following notification in the Gazette of the making thereof.

3. The Christchurch Tramway District Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as the said Act), is hereby modified as follows:—

(a) The electors list to be prepared in accordance with section 9 of the said Act shall be compiled on or before the 31st day of January, 1941.

(b) The sitting of the Board to be held in accordance with subsection (4) of section 13 of the said Act shall be held on a day in the month of March, 1941, not later than the fifteenth day thereof.

(c) The electors roll shall be deemed to be closed at five o’clock in the afternoon of the 16th day of April, 1941, and shall continue closed until the election is completed.

4. Regulations numbers 11 to 20 inclusive of the regulations made under the said Act on the 4th day of September, 1930, are hereby revoked and the following substituted therefor:—

“11. The Secretary shall keep the electors list in his office and allow it to be inspected (without fee) by all persons interested therein during office hours from the 1st day of February, 1941, until the 7th day of February, 1941, and he shall on or before the said 1st day of February, 1941, publicly notify that such list is or will be ready for inspection at his office.

“12. The Board shall, at a sitting of the Board held in the month of March (being not later than the fifteenth day thereof), amend the electors list by correcting every error set forth in any objections thereto and proved to the satisfaction of the Board to exist therein, and any other error found in such list and the Secretary shall initial every alteration so made in the electors list which shall thereupon be authenticated in the manner prescribed by Regulation 13 hereof.

“13. (1) The electors list and every supplementary electors list and every roll or supplementary roll made pursuant to the said Act or these regulations shall be authenticated by being certified to be correct by the Chairman of the Board and two members.

“(2) Where from any cause the foregoing provisions of this regulation cannot be complied with such lists or rolls may be authenticated by the Secretary, who shall append the following certificate thereto:—

“Certified pursuant to Regulation 13 of the Emergency Regulations 1940, under the Christchurch Tramway Act, 1920, to be correct.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . , Secretary.

“14. Additions to the electors list after the 31st day of January aforesaid shall be made by means of one or more supplementary lists which shall be open for inspection in the office of the Secretary during office hours (without fee) by all persons interested therein and every such supplementary list shall be corrected where necessary and shall be authenticated in the manner prescribed by Regulation 13 hereof and shall thereupon be a supplementary electors roll and be deemed to be incorporated with the original electors roll.

“15. Forthwith upon the authentication of the electoral roll pursuant to Regulation 13 hereof the Secretary shall give public notice that the roll has been so authenticated, and is open for inspection (without fee) at his office by all persons interested, and that objections thereto must be made within fourteen days from a date to be named therein, being the date of first publication of such notice, and the Secretary shall keep the said roll in his office and allow it to be inspected (without fee) by all persons interested during office hours during the fourteen days aforesaid.

“16. All objections under section 12 of the said Act shall be made in writing in the form numbered 2 in the Schedule hereto, and shall be addressed to the Secretary and delivered at his office on or before the 15th day of February, 1941.

“17. The Secretary shall make and sign a list of all such objections in the form numbered 3 in the Schedule hereto, and shall keep such list in his office and allow it to be inspected (without fee) by any person interested therein during office hours from the 17th to the 21st day of February, 1941.

“18. When the Board has disposed of any objection pursuant to subsection (2) of section 12 of the said Act the Secretary shall give notice thereof to the persons affected. Such notice shall be sufficient if sent by registered post letter addressed in the case of an elector to the address appearing on the roll, and in the case of an objector to the address appearing on the form of objection prescribed by Regulation 16 hereof, and shall be deemed to be received when it would reach its address in the ordinary course of registered post.

“19. Appeals to a Magistrate under section 14 of the said Act against the electors roll may be made as follows:—

“(1) An objection in writing under the hand of the appellant shall be lodged by him with the Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Christchurch not later than the 19th day of March, 1941, and a copy of that objection shall also be lodged by the appellant with the Secretary not later than the said 19th day of March.

“(2) The objection shall be in the said form numbered 2 in the Schedule hereto or as near thereto as may be.

“(3) The Magistrate shall hear and determine the appeal at such convenient place and time not being later than the 27th day of March, 1941, as he appoints, and not less than three days’ notice shall be given by the Clerk of the said Court to the Board and to the appellant of the date so appointed.

“20. Appeals to a Magistrate under section 14 of the said Act against a supplementary electors roll may be made as follows:—

“(1) An objection in writing under the hand of the appellant shall be lodged by him with the Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Christchurch not later than the 16th day of April, 1941, and not later than that day a copy of that objection shall be lodged by the appellant with the Secretary.

“(2) The objection shall be in the said form numbered 2 in the Schedule hereto or as near thereto as may be.

“(3) The Magistrate shall appoint a day being not later than three days after the objection is lodged for the hearing and determining thereof and notice of the day so appointed shall be given by the Clerk of the said Court to the Board and to the appellant.”

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

(I.A. 103/64.)

The Termites Act (Application) Order 1940.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 24th day of December, 1940.

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. P. FRASER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section five of the Termites Act, 1940, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby order as follows:—

1. This order may be cited as the Termites Act (Application) Order 1940.

2. The several local authorities set out in the Schedule hereto are declared to be local authorities to which the provisions of the Termites Act, 1940, apply.

3. This Order in Council shall come into force on the day following notification in the Gazette of the making thereof.

SCHEDULE.

City.
Auckland . .

Boroughs.
Mt. Albert, Onehunga, One Tree Hill, New Plymouth.

Road Board.
Mt. Roskill.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council,