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the manufacture or conversion of the residual products of gas or sewage, or gives 'power][to!| construct a station for generating electricity, or authorises the making or erection of a sewage-farm, burial-ground, crematorium, destructor, or hospital for infectious diseases, notice of the Bill must be served on the owners, lessees, and occupiers of all dwellinghouses situate within three hundred yards of the lands in or upon which such gasworks, sewage-works, works for the manufacture or conversion of residual products, station for generating electricity, sewage-farm, burialground, crematorium, destructor, or hospital are or is to be made or erected. 20. Where a Bill gives power to lay down a tramway, notice of the Bill must be served on the owners, lessees, and occupiers of all houses, shops, or warehouses abutting on any street or road along which the tramway is to be laid at any point where a less space than is to intervene between the nearest rail of the tramway and the outer edge of the footpath along the street or road on the side whereon the house, shop, or warehouse abuts. 21. Where a Bill gives power to relinquish the whole or any part of a work authorised by an existing Act, notice of the Bill must be served on the owners, lessees, and occupiers of all lands immediately adjacent to the work, or part thereof, intended to be relinquished. 22. Where a Bill proposes to alter or repeal any express statutory provision in force for the protection of the owner, lessee, or occupier of any property, or for the protection or benefit of any trustees for the public, commissioners, corporation, or person expressly named in the provision, notice of the Bill, and of the proposal to alter or repeal any such provision, must be served on every such owner, lessee, occupier, trustee for the public, commissioner, corporation, or person. 23. Every notice required to be served under the provisions of Order fourteen, or of Orders nineteen to twenty-two hereof, must be served not less than thirty nor more than days before the commencement of the Session in which application is to be made for the Bill. 24. Except when delivered in due course of post, no notice served on a Sunday, Good Friday, or Christmas Day, or before eight o'clock in the forenoon or after eight o'clock in the afternoon of any day, shall be deemed to be valid. Deposits with Commissioner op Crown Lands. 25. Where a Bill gives power to take or use any lands, or to burden any lands with an improve-ment-charge, then, not less than thirty days before the commencement of the Session in which application is to be made for the Bill, there shall be deposited for public inspection at the Office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands in the principal town of each provincial district wherein any such lands are situate a plan, together with a book of reference thereto, showing the lands in that provincial district proposed to be taken or used, or to be charged as aforesaid. 26. Where a Bill proposes to authorise any work, then, in each provincial district in or through which the work is to be made, maintained, diverted, extended, or enlarged, there shall be deposited within the like time and in the like manner and at the like place as are mentioned in the last preceding Order a plan and section of so much of the work as will lie within that provincial district.

5.0., No. 25; S.O. of House of No. 15.

In case of Tramway Bill. S.O. of House of Commons, No. 13.

In case of Bill for relinquishing work. Ibid., No. Iβ.

In case of Bill for amending or repealing an existing enactment. Ibid., No. 17.

Time within which notice may be served.

Service to be made at reasonable hour on a business day. 5.0., No. 26.

Deposit of plan of lands proposed to be taken. Ibid., Xn. 27.

Deposit of plan of proposed work.