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Native Licensing Districts,
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| Existing Native districts unaffected. All parts of the colony proclaimed districts under the provisions of "The Outlying Districts Sale of Spirits Act, 1870," and the districts described in the Schedule annexed to "The Licensing Amendment Act, 1875," as the same respectively existed at the commencement of this Act, are Native licensing districts under this Act. |
Governor may constitute new Native districts. The Governor, by Order in Council, may from time to time alter the limits of any such districts, or abolish the same; he may also in like manner constitute, vary, and abolish new Native licensing districts, subject to the following conditions:—
| (1.) | No Native licensing district shall be constituted unless, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, at least one-half of the inhabitants thereof are persons of the aboriginal native race. |
| (2.) | No part of any borough shall be included in any such district. |
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| Functions of Committee in Native districts. The Licensing Committee of any ordinary or special licensing district, when exercising its functions in relation to licenses intended to take effect within any portion of the district which lies within the limits of a Native licensing district, shall conform to the special provisions herein contained. |
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| Native Assessors to be elected. In every Native licensing district an Assessor shall be elected annually by a majority of the inhabitants qualified to vote for Maori representatives in Parliament. |
Assessors heretofore appointed to continue in office till after first eiection. Every Assessor appomtea under the provisions of "The Outlying Districts Sale of Spirits Act, 1870," and now holding office, shall continue Assessor for the district for which he was acting at the commencement of this Act until after the first election.
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| One Assessor ex officio member of Licensing Committee. Every such Assessor shall, by virtuc of his office, be a member of every Licensing Committee having jurisdiction within any part of the Native licensing district to which the said Assessor is elected; but one only of such Assessors at a time shall be competent to sit and act at any meeting of a Licensing pommittee for licensing purposes. |
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| No license to be granted except with sanction of Licensing Committee. No wholesale license, or other license of any sort (except as hereinafter mentioned) authorizing the sale of liquors, and intended to take effect within any part of a Native licensing district, shall be issued by any person whomsoever, unless the issue of such license shall first have been approved of by the Licensing Committee having jurisdiction within such last-named district.page 11.gif) |
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| The conditions under which licenses for the sale of liquors within Conditions for licenses in Native districts. Native licensing districts may he granted, renewed, transferred, or removed are as follow, that is to say,—
| (1.) | No application in respect of any license intended to take eftect within Assessor tp have a voice in respect of the granting of every license. any Native licensing district shall he entertained at any licensing meeting by any Licensing Committee, unless at least three members of such Committee, exclusive of the Native Assessor, are present at such meetine. |
| (2.) | At every such meeting, in respect of any application as aforesaid, one No license may be granted in absence of Assessor. Assessor elected for the Native licensing district wherein the license is intended to take effect must be present. |
| (3.) | The consent of such Assessor shall be indispensable for the granting Assessor may veto any license. of any application. |
| (4.) | Except as hereinbefore provided, all questions in respect ot any application Decision to be by majority of voices. as aforesaid shall he decided by a majority of votes, and in case of equality of votes the Chairman shall have a second or casting vote. |
| (5.) | The Assessor aforesaid shall have no voice or vote in respect of any Limitation to vote of Assessor. license not intended to take effect within the district to which he is elected. |
| (6.) | The foregoing subsections shall not apply in respect of a conditional Certain licenses excepted. license or of a packet license. |
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| It shall not be lawful for any person whomsoever either to sell, or to Intoxicating liquor not to be supplied to Natives within Native licensing district. supply, or to give any intoxicating liquor to any person of the Native race within any Native licensing district. |
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| If any person shall sell, supply, or give any such intoxicating liquor Penalty for supplying intoxicating liquor to Natives contrary to Act. to any Native, contrary to the provisions of this Act, he shall forfeit and pay for any such offence any sum not exceeding twenty pounds, to be recovered in a summary way, over and above any penalty which may be incurred for the sale of any such liquor without a license: Provided always that no penalty shall be Proviso. recoverable for supplying intoxicating liquor to any person of the Native race, in case it shall be satisfactorily proved that the intoxicating liquor so snpplied was administered medicinally. |
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| The Governor, on the application of the owners of any block or area Governor, on opplication of owners, may prohibit licenses on certain areas of Native land. of Native land on which no publican's license has been hitherto granted, may, by Proclamation in the Gazette, declare that no license shall be granted within such block or area, and it shall not be lawful for the Licensing Committee to issue any license to take effect within any block or area so proclaimed. |
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