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payable to the Land Commissioner of
the district where the runs are situated
annually, during the month of January
in each year of occupation, up to the
31st of the preceding December. Provided that, for licences issued after the
30th of June in any given year, only half
a year’s rent shall be chargeable in the
next ensuing month of January.

6th. When any arrears of rent shall
remain unsettled for a period of three
months, in that case the said licence
shall cease and determine, and the Land
Commissioner for the district is thereupon
required to notify in the Government Gazette the forfeiture of such licence, and
to let the run to which it relates by
Public Auction, whereof one month’s
notice shall be given, to the highest bidder for a term of 14 years, subject to the
conditions of these regulations.

Provided always, that the period of
three months above referred to may be
extended to six months in case of the
death of the run-holder.

7th. Within 12 months after the issue
of a licence, the holder thereof shall be
required to place on the run at least one
breeding Ewe for every 20 acres, or else
one Cow or more, for every one hundred
and twenty acres; and he shall be required to keep up at least that number
of breeding stock upon the run during
the whole period of his occupancy.

Should the holder of a licence not
comply with this condition, his deposit
shall be absolutely forfeited and the run
shall be let according as is provided for
in the foregoing clause.

XII. In the event of any deposit
being made and the run in respect of
which such deposit has been made, not
being afterwards awarded to the depositor
by the Commissioner, the amount so
deposited shall be immediately refunded
to him.

XIII. The beneficial interest in any
occupation licence may be at any time
transferred by the licensed holder.

In order to render such transfer valid,
it is necessary

1. That all the conditions upon which
   the original licence was granted
   shall have been complied with, as
   to payment of rent, stocking &c.

2. That notification shall be given to
   the Commissioner, within one month
   of the transfer having been effected.

XIV. The licensed occupier of any run
shall have the right of pre-emption, during the currency of his lease, of his
homestead to the extent of 80 acres,
immediately surrounding it, but no more.

Provided always, that the land Commissioner shall have the power to require
him at any time to exercise this right of
pre-emption; and that should he neglect
to comply with any such requisition, he
shall forfeit his right of pre-emption.

XV. A return of all occupation licences
issued during the past year, together with
all transfers and decisions on disputed
references and a statement of all deposits
and rents received during the same
period, shall be published by the Commissioner in the Government Gazette
during the month of February in each year.

XVI. These regulations shall come
into force in this Province at the expiration of one month after notice in the
Government Gazette that they have received the Governor’s sanction; from and
after which date the regulations of 1851
shall cease to be acted on.

All persons now entitled to licences
under the regulations of 1851, may, at
their option expressed in writing to the
Commissioner within 6 months after the
publication of the sanction of these present regulations, have licences issued
under the first mentioned regulations, to
date from their original applications, or
they may have licences under these present regulations to date from the period
of their expressing such option.

SCHEDULE A.

District
Boundaries
Estimated extent
Deposit £
Signature of applicant.

SCHEDULE B.

Form of Pasture Occupation Licence

Whereas A. B. of ____ has made application for a Pasture occupation licence
in the district of ____ and has lodged
with me the required description and
deposit and whereas the boundaries of
the run thus applied for are set forth in
a plan attached to this licence and the
average contents satisfactorily certified.

Now therefore I ____ do hereby license
the said ____ to depasture stock upon
the said land for the term of 14 years
from the date hereof, subject nevertheless
to be sooner determined pursuant to the
regulations under which this licence is
issued and to be cancelled as is provided.

Dated ____

(Signed) C. D. Commissioner.