Municipal Franchise Reform Extension Act 1899
Municipal Franchise Reform Extension Act 1899
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Municipal Franchise Reform Extension Act 1899
Municipal Franchise Reform Extension Act 1899
Public Act |
1899 No 3 |
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Date of assent |
26 August 1899 |
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Contents
An Act to extend the Provisions of “The Municipal Franchise Reform Act, 1898.”
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Short Title
The Short Title of this Act is “The Municipal Franchise Reform Extension Act, 1899”
; and it shall form part of and be read together with “The Municipal Franchise Reform Act, 1898”
(hereinafter called “the Franchise Reform Act”
).
2 Final amendment of burgess-list.
On the fourteenth day next preceding the second Thursday in the month of September in each year the Council shall hold a sitting in order to finally amend the burgess-list for the purposes of such election.
3 Notice of sitting therefor
The Mayor shall cause public notice to be given of such sitting.
4 Council may amend by adding names. Proviso.
At such sitting, or at any adjournment thereof, the Council shall amend the burgess-list (whether it is or is not then in force as the burgess-roll) by the addition of the name of any person who, to the satisfaction of the Council, then in fact possesses the requisite qualification entitling him to enrolment, and by the correction of every error which the Council finds to exist therein: Provided that such amended list be completed and certified to not less than twelve days before the second Thursday in the month of September in each year.
5 Information on which Council may act.
In making any such amendment the Council may act either on its own knowledge, or on the report of the Clerk, or on any claim or objection then before it.
6 List as amended to be burgess-roll for election.
When the burgess-list has been so amended it shall be initialled, signed, and certified as provided by section sixty-nine of the principal Act, and shall thereupon become the burgess-roll for the purposes of such election, and shall be deemed to be closed until the election is completed.
7 Burgess-roll may be amended from time to time, except whilst closed.
No alteration in the burgess-roll shall be made whilst it is closed as aforesaid, but, except whilst so closed, it may from time to time and at any time be amended as aforesaid by the Council at any meeting thereof, or by the Clerk, and for that purpose it shall be the duty of the Clerk to enter therein the name of any person who to the Clerk’s knowledge possesses any qualification entitling him to enrolment, or who makes claim for enrolment in the prescribed form.
8 Right of any person to be enrolled at any time.
The right of a person to be enrolled at any time in respect of any qualification which he then possesses shall not be affected by the fact that he acquired it before or after any specified date, anything in section seventy-one of the principal Act to the contrary notwithstanding.
9 Regulations under Franchise Reform Act to apply.
The regulations now in force under the Franchise Reform Act shall apply to this Act.
10 Acts modified.
The principal Act and the Franchise Reform Act are hereby modified in so far as they are in conflict with this Act.
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