New Zealand: Acts affecting Native Lands, 1886, 1888-91 and 1894-95

(4). Costs of Elections and Meetings

(4). Costs of Elections and Meetings.

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(1). Cost of elections and administration to be paid by local authorities. All costs and expenses incident to the election and the meetings of the Committee, including charges for printing and advertising the necessary notices relating thereto, as also the actual cost of the travelling-expenses incurred by the Chairman or any member of a Committee or the Clerk thereof in attending any meeting, and the salary of such Clerk, and also such reasonable remuneration to the Clerk of the controlling authority of the district as, having regard to the additional duties imposed on him by the Licensing Acts, such local authority thinks proper, shall be paid by the controlling local authority of the district, subject to the following provisions:—
( a.) The local authority of each district that forms a part of a licensing district and receives a portion of the license fees accruing therein is liable to contribute, in proportion to the amount so received, to the aforesaid costs and expenses:
( b.) In case no license fees are received by a local authority in any licensing district, such authority is nevertheless liable to contribute to the aforesaid costs and expenses in like manner as if it received the same portion of such fees as the local authority that receives the smallest portion thereof:
( c.) In case no license fees whatever are received in any district, the local authorities in such district are liable to contribute to the aforesaid costs and expenses in proportion to the population of the districts under the jurisdiction of the said local authorities respectively:
( d.) The controlling local authority of the district is entitled to recover such contribution from the local authorities liable to pay the same.
(2). Section ten of "The Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Act, 1893," is hereby repealed.
17. Increase of rates in case of loss of revenue. Every local authority which suffers loss of revenue from license fees under the Licensing Acts in consequence of the reduction or prohibition of licenses in the district may make good such loss by an equivalent sum to be levied and collected by an increase of the general rates in the district, anything in any Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.