Rabbit. 



Board : Provided that all such officers and servants shall 

 be under the exclusive control, and hold office during the 

 pleasure, of the Board ; 



(Z) shall cause proper minute books to be kept of all its 

 proceedings ; 



(c) shall cause true and regular accounts to be kept of all moneys 



received or paid under the authority of this Act, and shall 

 give the owner or occupier of any private holding within the 

 Rabbit District access thereto at all reasonable hours ; 



(d) shall produce for inspection to any person duly authorised in 

 writing by the Minister or the Colonial Treasurer all its 

 books, accounts, agreements, vouchers, letters, or other docu- 

 ments which may relate to any matter under this Act ; 



9. All fines, penalties, rates, and other moneys received by a The Rabbit Fund. 

 Rabbit Board under or by virtue of this Act shall form part of a 



fund to be called the Rabbit Fund of the District. 



Moneys forming part of the Rabbit Fund of the District may 

 be applied by the Rabbit Board to the payment of any expenses of, or 

 incidental to, the administration of this Act by the Board, or of any 

 costs or expenses incurred in accordance with provisions of this Act, 

 and not otherwise. 



The Governor may cause the accounts in connection with the 

 Rabbit Fund of the District to be audited, and the expenses of the 

 audit shall, if the Governor so require, be paid out of the Rabbit Fund. 



10. Every Rabbit Board shall in each year make or cause to be Rabbit rate, 

 made an estimate of the probable sum which will be required (in 

 addition to fines, penalties, and other revenues) for the effective 

 administration of this Act in the Rabbit District ; and the said sum 



shall be raised by a Rabbit Rate upon stock within the District. 



Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, the amounts 

 levied under the rate shall be proportionate as far as practicable to the 

 stock returns under the Pastures and Stock Protection Acts 



(i) The Rabbit Board shall, in the first instance, strike the rate 

 upon an assessment of so much per sheep, but not so as 

 to exceed one halfpenny per sheep in any one year, 

 (n) Public lands shall be taken to be capable of carrying one 



sheep to ten acres, and be rated on that basis. 

 (TTI) Cultivated private lands shall be taken to be capable of 

 carrying one sheep to five acres, and be rated on that basis in 

 every case where no returns for such cultivated lands have 

 been made xmder the Stock and Pastures Protection Acts : 

 Provided always that only half rates shall be levied upon any 

 holding now or hereafter enclosed by a fence which, in the opinion of 

 the Board, is rabbit-proof. 



(iv) The Rabbit Board shall have access as prescribed to 

 () returns of sheep made to Clerks of Petty Sessions and 

 Inspectors of Sheep under the Diseases in Sheep Acts or 

 any other Acts ; and 



(6) returns collected by the police or other authorised persons 

 for statistical or other purposes. 



11. When the amount payable under the rate upon any holding Notice of amount due 

 has been determined the prescribed notice of such amount shall be u ? der rate to be 

 given to the person liable to pay the same. 



The amount so determined shall, except in case of appeal, be 

 paid to such person or bank, and on or before such date as may be 

 respectively specified for the purpose in such notice : Provided that 

 the amount may be payable in instalments if the Board so directs. 



The person liable to pay such amount shall be the occupier of 

 the holding if the same be occupied, but if not, then the owner thereof; 

 but nothing herein contained shall affect any agreement between 

 landlord and tenant in respect of the said liability. 12. 



