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Election of Members. 



7. The election of members of a llabbit Board shall be in accordance with the following 

 provisions : 



(a) Whenever an election is necessary, the time and place for holding the same shall be 



appointed by the Minister by notification in the Gazette. 



(4) Occupiers of private holdings within the Itabbit District shall be the persons qualified 

 to vote, and the number of votes allowed to each such occupier shall be determined by 

 the aggregate area of the private holdings within tho liabbit District occupied by him, 

 according to the following scale: 



For an aggregate area not exceeding six hundred and forty acres in the Eastern and 

 Central Divisions, or ten thousand two hundred and forty acres in the Western 

 Division, one vote. 



For an aggregate area exceeding six hundred and forty acres and not exceeding two 

 thousand five hundred and sixty acres in the Eastern and Central Divisions, or 

 exceeding ten thousand two hundred and forty acres and not exceeding twenty 

 thousand four hundred and eighty acres in the Western Division, two votes. 

 For an aggregate area exceeding two thousand five hundred and sixty acres in tho 

 Eastern and Central Divisions, or twenty thousand four hundred and eighty 

 acres in the Western Division, three votes, 

 (c) When three members of a Babbit Board have been elected, three members of tho Board 



as previously constituted shall retire ; 



(rf) Where a member of a Rabbit Board is to be elected, and no valid election takes place, 

 the Governor may appoint a member to fill the vacancy, and such member shall bo 

 deemed an elected member ; 



(e) The cost of an election shall be paid out of the revenues of the Rabbit Board ; 

 (/') Subject to the foregoing provisions, all necessary matters in connection with elections 

 shall be prescribed by Regulations to be made in that behalf. 



Clauses 6 and 7 struck out. 



Clause 8. 



Incorporation of a Rabbit Board. 



8. The members of a Rabbit Board, as from time to time constituted, shall be a corporate 

 body under the style or title of the " Rabbit Board of District," the name of the 

 District being such as the Minister may from time to time assign by notification in the Gazette ; 

 and under such style or title shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and be capable 

 in law of suing and being sued. 



The validity of any acts of the Rabbit Board shall not be affected by any informality or 

 irregularity in the appointment or election of any member of the Board, or by reason of the 

 fact that there are not five members of the Board ; and the fact that all the seats on the Board 

 are vacant shall not of itself operate to dissolve the corporation. 



The Governor may, by proclamation, dissolve a Rabbit Board, and the corporation shall 

 thereupon cease to exist, and the then members of the Board shall cease to bo members thereof. 



When a Rabbit Board is dissolved, the Governor may, at any time thereafter, by 

 proclamation, constitute and appoint another Board, and all the property and all the rights 

 and liabilities of the corporation so dissolved shall vest in the new Board ; and if no such Board 

 be constituted and appointed, then in the Crown : Provided that the proclamation constituting 

 and appointing a Rabbit Board in place of a dissolved Board may be subsequent to the 

 proclamation dissolving the same, and the Crown shall thereupon be divested of all the 

 property, rights, and liabilities, or such of them as still subsist, of the dissolved Board, and 

 the same shall vest in the Board constituted and appointed in its place. 



Mr. T. BHOWN, M.L.A., said that clause 8 should be amended so as to read " that the Pastures and 

 Stock Boards should be constituted corporate bodies." This would be necessary, not only under the Rabbit 

 Bill, but also for matters pertaining to the administration of the Pastures and Stock Protection Act. He 

 begged to move, " That ' Pastures and Stock Protection Boards ' bo inserted wherever ' Rabbit Board ' 

 occurred." 



Mr. GUMMING (Hillston) seconded the motion. 



Mr. GIBSON (Hay) opposed it. It should remain as it was ; because, from what the Conference 

 had passed, the Rabbit Board consisted of the Pastures and Stock Board, together with the nominees of 

 the Government. 



MEMBEKS : No, no ! The Government only have a right to vote, not to appoint nominees. 



Mr. T. BROWN, M.L.A., said that, for the purpose of administering the Rabbit Act, he thought it 

 necessary to constitute the Boards corporate bodies, so that their acts could pass on to their successors. 

 As an instance, he mentioned that Mr. Leslie's Board undertook to expend a certain sum of money in 

 constructing a wire-netting to keep the rabbits off their area, and the members of the Board who came 

 afterwards could repudiate the actions taken by this Board if they thought fit. because it was not a 

 corporate body. It was, therefore, in the interests of right administration. 



Mr. ALISON (Canonbar) said he would move, " That wherever ' Rabbit Board' occurred in clause 

 8 the words ' Pastures and Stock Protection Boards' be substituted." 



Mr. T. BKOWN, M.L.A., consented. 



Mr. Rosa (Hume) seconded the proposal. 



The Chairman put the question, and it was carried unanimously. 



Mr. ALISON (Canonbar) said he wished to move an amendment. In line 21, clause 8, it said five 

 members. He moved, " That the word ' eight' be substituted for ' five' " ; because now that they had 

 substituted Pastures and Stock Boards for Rabbit Boards it would be necessary to alter this in this way, 

 because the Pastures and Stock Boards consisted of eight members. 



Mr. BAYLIS (Narrandera) seconded the amendment. 



On being put, the amendment was carried. 



Mr. EKEEMAN moved, after the word " proclamation," to insert " at the request of the Board or on 

 the requisition of two-thirds of the voting power." Mr. 



