CO129-609-3 Future policy- draft Municipal Council Ordinance 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1947 — Page 163

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Penalty for destruction &c. of notices.

Mode of sending notices.

Information from property

owners.

Access to official records.

any other manner which is, in his opinion, desirable for

the purpose of bringing the contents of the document to the

notice of those interested.

Any failure to publish a document in accordance with

these rules shall not invalidate the document, but this

provision shall not relieve the registration officer from any

penalty for such a failure.

25. If any person without lawful authority destroys,

mutilates, defaces or removes any notice published by the

registration officer in connection with his registration duties,

or any copies of a document which have been made available for

inspection in pursuance of these rules, he shall be liable on

summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.

26. Any application or notice of objection which is under

these rules to be sent to the registration officer may be sent

to him by post addressed to him at his office.

Any notice which is required to be sent by the registration officer under these rules to any person shall be sufficiently

sent if sent by post to the address of that person as given by

him for the purpose, or as appearing on the lists, or if there

is no such address, to his last known place of abode.

27. The registration officer may require the owner or

occupier of any land or premises or the agent of such person to

give any information in his possession which the registration

officer may require for the purpose of his duties as registration

officer, and if any person fails to give the required information,

or gives false information, he shall be liable on summary

conviction to a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars.

Any notice requiring information under this rule may be

sent by post.

The registration officer shall, subject to such

directions as the Governor may give, have access without payment

of fees to the registers and records in the custody of the Land

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