IMMIGRATION AND PUBLIC WORKS
ACT AMENDMENT ACT, 1871.

Schedule of Regulations prescribing the Mode of Making Applications for Advances of Money to aid in the Construction, Extension, or Improvement of Works for the Supply of Water upon Gold Fields.

1. Persons desirous of obtaining advances of money for the purposes specified shall make application in writing to the Warden of the District, and such application shall state—

(1.) The names and descriptions of the applicants, or if they be a Registered or Joint Stock Company, then the registered particulars thereof.

(2.) The names of the Engineer and Manager of the works.

(3.) The general description of the water race or races, dams, reservoirs, or other works proposed to be constructed, together with duly attested copies of the certificate or certificates of title to the water or ground; the quantity of water intended to be conveyed or stored; the length of the race or races; size of reservoirs or dams, with plans, sections, and specifications; the maximum rate proposed to be charged for the water; the nature and extent of the auriferous ground proposed to be supplied with water.

(4.) The estimated cost of the undertaking, given in detail.

(5.) The proposed capital to be expended in works for the supply of water.

(6.) The interests, if any, affected by the diversion or storage of the water to be dealt with.

(7.) The amount of money proposed to be borrowed.

2. Before making application, the applicant shall pay to the Receiver of Gold Revenue of the District a deposit of 2½ per cent. upon the money proposed to be borrowed; and on making the application, shall forward therewith a receipt for the same.

3. The advances will be granted in proportion to the amount of money actually expended on the construction of the work, and shall not in any case exceed one-third of the amount so expended. The advances, subject to the approval of the Minister, shall be made on the certificate of the District Engineer, or other duly appointed person, that such work has been executed in accordance with the plans and specifications previously submitted and approved of by him or by the Engineer-in-Chief or Assistant Engineer-in-Chief. Advances will be made monthly, and only during the actual progress or execution of the work, and the final payment will be made on its actual completion.

4. Not more than fifteen thousand pounds (£15,000) will be advanced to any one undertaking.

5. Immediately after any application shall have been finally decided upon, the deposit thereon will be repaid, except so much as may be retained under authority of the Minister for covering the cost of the investigation made under the Act.

6. No loan will be made unless the borrowers shall have complied with all the provisions and requirements of the several Acts relating to the Gold Fields, and of any other law or regulation for the time being in force within the Gold Fields with respect to the proposed works.

7. Every work in respect of which any advance is made, shall be carried out in conformity with the particulars contained in the application, and in strict accordance with plans, sections, and specifications, which shall be approved of by the District Engineer, or Engineer-in-Chief, or Assistant Engineer; and detailed estimates of the cost of the works, which shall also be approved as above, and which detailed estimates will form the basis of advances as they may be required in all cases where the work is not executed by contract; but, in cases where the work shall be executed by contract, then the schedule prices attached to such contract shall be the basis of such advance. In cases where the work may already have been executed, or partly executed, for which advances have been applied for, the value thereof shall be determined by the District Engineer, who shall give a certificate as to his estimated value of such work; and the District Engineer shall have access at all times to the works; and if the Minister shall be satisfied at any time that the provisions of this regulation are not complied with, he may cause notice to be given to the borrowers, or their Engineer or Manager, requiring them to conform to such particulars and specifications; and if they shall refuse or neglect for one calendar month after such notice to comply