The Municipal Franchise Reform Act.

Manawatu Herald, 29 August 1899, Page 2

The Municipal Franchise Reform Act.

- ■ p I We have been handed, by the Government* with a copy of a telegram sent to His Worship the Mayor, as follows : — " As the time between this and the time for holding the sitting of Council to finally amend the burgess list is limited, I forward herewith copy of " The Municipal Franchise Reform

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Extension Act," which received the assent of His Excellency the Governor to-day. You will notice that the Council must hold a sitting on the fourteenth day next, preceding the second Thursday in September in each year, to finally amend the burgess list, and that two days thereafter the amended list must be completed and certified to. The following is a copy of the Act, an Act to extend the provisions of " The Municipal Franchise Reform Act, 1898." 26th August, 1899. " BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows : Section 1. The short title of this Act is "The Municipal Franchise Reform Extension Act, 1800 " and it shall form part of and be read together with "The Municipal Franchise Reform Act, 1898," (here-in-after called w The Franchise Reform Act.") Sections. On the fourteenth day n«xt preceeding the second Thursday in the month of September, in each year, the Council shall hold a sitting in order to finally amend the bureess list for the purpose of such election. Section 3- The Mayor shall cause public notice to be given of such sitting. Section 4. At such sitting or at any adjournment thereof the Council shall amend the burgess list, (whether it is or is not in force as the burgess roll) by the addition of the name of any person, who, to the satisfaction of the Council, there-m-fact possesses the requisite qualification entitling him to enrolment, and by the correction of every error which the CouncU 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 y«ar. Section 5. 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. Section 6. 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.. Section 7. 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 in the clerk's knowledge possesses any qualification entitling him to enrolment, or who makes claim for enrolment in the prescribed form. Section 8. The right of a person to be enrolled at any time in respect ot 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 ot the principal Act to the contrary notwithstanding. Section 9. The regulations now in force under the Franchise Reform Act shall apply to this Act. Section 10. The principal Act and the Franchise Reform Act are hereby modified in so far as they are in conflict with this Act."