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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 three months after the date of the publication above referred to, and the ground 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 said 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 favour 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 five pounds 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 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 become 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 months notice of such sale in the said Government Gazette.

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

For the first four years of occupation, at the rate of one farthing per acre per annum.

For the next five years of occupation at the rate of one-halfpenny per acre per annum.

For the remaining five years of occupation at the rate of one penny per acre per annum.

5th. All rents shall become due and 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 licenses 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 license shall cease and determine, and the Land Commissioner for the district in thereupon required to notify in the said Government Gazette the forfeiture of such license, 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.