REGULATIONS
FOR THE LICENSED OCCUPATION OF THE
PUBLIC PASTURE LANDS
Of the Province of Wellington.

I. All persons requiring occupation licenses for unoccupied portions of the Public Pasture Lands of the Province of Wellington, or for portions of the same now in their occupation, shall lodge with the Land Commissioner of the district in which such run is situated, a description thereof, in the form or to the effect of Schedule A.

II. Every applicant shall, at the time of lodging such description, pay to the Commissioner a cash deposit according to the following scale, viz.:

£5 for runs described as under 10,000 acres.
£10 " " " over do.

III. All applications which shall have been regularly made, and in respect of which the required deposit shall have been paid, shall be immediately filed and registered in the Commissioners’ office; and the register of all such applications shall be open to public inspection within office hours.

IV. The Commissioner shall publish without delay in the Government Gazette, the description of every run thus applied for, together with the name of the applicant and the amount paid in deposit.

V. The Commissioner shall have power to hear and decide on all applications, and also all objections thereto, as well as all disputes in respect of conflicting applications.

VI. All objections must be brought before the Commissioner within 3 months after the date of the publication above referred to, and the grounds of objection must be stated in writing; and no objection shall be entertained unless laid before him prior to the lapse of this period.

VII. In the event of any objection being duly laid before the Commissioner within the prescribed time, it shall be his duty to appoint, by publication in the Gazette, as early a day for hearing and determining the claims of the respective parties, as shall be compatible with a sufficient notice.

VIII. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner to hear and determine all such objections and conflicting applications, and also all disputes between holders of pasture occupation Licenses, regarding the boundaries of their respective runs in open Court, to be held in the districts where the runs in dispute are situated.

IX. All applications made upon the same day shall be deemed to be simultaneous applications, and the priority thereof shall be decided by lot.

X. The Commissioner may at any time require the holder of a license to distinguish the boundaries of his run by marked trees or posts, or otherwise, when they are not distinctly marked by nature.

XI. So soon as practicable after the decision in favor of any application for a run shall have been given, an occupation license in the form of Schedule B to depasture stock thereon for 14 years shall be issued to the applicant, who shall pay for such license the sum of £5 sterling, and shall be entitled to receive credit on account of rent reserved as under, to the extent of the deposit lodged by him—subject always to the following reservations and conditions.

1st. No license whatever shall be issued until the approximate accuracy of the computation of the acreage of the run be certified by a competent surveyor or otherwise, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner, and endorsed on a plan thereof, which plan shall exhibit as nearly as may be the boundaries of the run, and shall be attached to the License. The applicant is bound to obtain such certificate and plan at his expense.

2nd. If at any time during the currency of such occupation license the land comprised therein, or any part thereof, shall be included within the boundaries of any agricultural or small farm, or other reserve, then the said occupation license shall cease and determine as to so much of the land as shall be included within such boundaries, from and after the day of the date of the Proclamation by which such reserves shall be declared open for use and occupation.

3rd. If at any time during the currency of such occupation license the land comprised therein or any part thereof shall be sold by or on behalf of the Crown, then and in that case also the said license shall cease and determine over so much of the land as shall have been sold from and after three month’s notice of such sale in the Government Gazette.

4th. Rent for a run shall be computed upon the acreage according to following uniform rates, viz.:

For the first 3 years of occupation at the rate of one-halfpenny per acre per annum.

For the remainder of the term of occupation at the rate of one penny per acre per annum.

5th. All rents shall become due and