The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 2
Sec. III.—General Regulations
Sec. III.—General Regulations.
22. | Qualification of Voters. |
23. | Claim to be preferred. |
24. | Form, &c., of Claim. |
25. | When to be preferred. |
26. | When to be preferred for certain Districts. |
27. | List of Claims to be prepared. |
28. | And to be published. |
29. | Justices to prepare Electoral Roll. |
30. | Objections to Claims. |
31. | Electoral Roll how to be formed. |
32. | Proof of Qualification in what case required. |
33. | The Electoral Roll how long in force. |
34. | Copy of Electoral Roll to be published. |
35. | Polling Places. |
36. | Additional Polling Places. |
37. | Returning Officers. |
38. | Writs for Elections. |
39. | Issue of Writs for supplying vacancies in Provincial Councils. |
40. | Days for Nomination and Election how fixed. |
41. | Returning Officer to preside at Nomination. |
42. | In case of a Contest. |
43. | In case a Poll be demanded. |
44. | The Polling. |
45. | Mode of Voting. |
46. | What enquiry may be made. |
47. | State of the Poll in certain cases to be declared. |
48. | Names of Persons elected as Members of the House of Representatives or of a Provincial Council to be inserted in Writ. |
49. | State of the Poll in certain cases to be declared. |
50. | State of the Poll in each District to be inserted in Writ at Election for Superintendent. |
51. | Voting Papers to be preserved. |
52. | New Writ in certain cases. |
53. | Objection to validity of Return of Superintendents. |
54. | Objection to validity of Return of Members of the House of Representatives. |
55. | Objection to Validity of Return of Members of Provincial Council. |
56. | Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, and Dunedin, to be deemed Capital Towns for purposes of Proclamation. |
57. | Proclamation to take effect from date. |
Schedules.
Plans.
Preamble reciting 15 & 16 Vic. Reg., cap. lxxii., "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Islands of New Zealand."—[30th June, 1852.]
And whereas, by the said recited Act, power is given to the Governor, by Proclamation, to declare certain places to be Towns for the purposes of the said Act:
Now therefore, I, the Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand, in pursuance and by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the said in part recited Act, and under and by virtue of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, do hereby Proclaim, Declare, Direct, and Appoint, as follows :—