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Rabbit. 



The provisions of the 

 Crown Lands Acts 

 as to procedure to 

 apply. 



Authentication of 

 documents, &c. 



Service of notices. 



"Where any proceedings under this Act arc had before a Local 

 Land Board an appeal shall lie to the Land Appeal Court; and the 

 Minister or such Board shall have the like powers of reference to such 

 court so far as practicable, as he or it now has under the Crown Lands 

 Acts ; but if there be no appeal or reference the determination or 

 decision of the Local Land Board shall be final and conclusive. 



The provisions of the Crown Lands Acts regulating proceedings 

 before Local Land Boards, and upon appeals and references to the 

 Land Appeal Court under such Acts shall, as far as practicable, be 

 applied to proceedings^ appeals, and references under this Act ; and for 

 the purposes of proceedings under this Act, the Land Appeal Court and 

 Local Land Boards and the respective members and officers thereof 

 shall have the same authorities and powers as are conferred by the 

 Crown Lands Acts for the purposes of proceedings imder the said Acts, 

 and in addition thereto the Land Appeal Court (on appeal) and a 

 Local Land Board shall have power to make such orders as to the 

 costs of any proceedings before the Local Land Board as may appear 

 just. 



Whenever any question of law shall arise in a case before the 

 Land Appeal Coxirt, such Court shall, if required in Avriting by any of 

 the parties within the prescribed time and upon the prescribed con- 

 ditions, or may of its own motion, state and submit a case for decision 

 by the Supreme Court thereon, which decision shall be conclusive. 

 Every such case shall purport to be stated under Ibis section, and 

 shall state the names of the persons who are parties to the appeal, 

 reference, or other proceeding, and shall be transmitted to the Protho- 

 notary of the Supreme Court to be dealt with as to the setting down 

 of the case for argument, and the hearing of the same, and its return 

 with the decision of the Supreme Court thereon, as the Judges or any 

 two of them shall direct. The Supreme Court for the purposes of this 

 section may consist of tAvo Judges only, and shall have power to deal 

 with the costs of, and incidental to, any case stated under this section 

 as it may think fit. 



51. Any notice, information, complaint, agreement, or other 

 document, by or from a llabbit Board, shall be sufficiently authenti- 

 cated if it is signed by the Chairman of the Board, or under his 

 direction by the Secretary of the Board, and authority in the Chair- 

 man or Secretary to so sign shall be presumed unless and until the 

 contrary is shown ; and it shall not be necessary for the Babbit Board 

 to affix its common seal to any document not being a deed. 



Any notice or other document given to or served upon a 

 Rabbit Board may be given to or served upon the Secretary or Chair- 

 man thereof. 



52. Any notice given under or for the purposes of this Act, or 

 any regulation made thereunder, may be given in any one of the 

 following ways : 



Personally to the person to whom the notice is addressed. 



By registered letter sent through the post and directed to the last 

 known place of abode or of business in New South Wales of 

 the person to whom the notice is addressed. 



By advertising the same twice at least in some newspaper circu- 

 lating in the District in which the lands the subject of such 

 notice are situate, an interval of a week or more being 

 allowed to elapse between such advertisements : Provided 

 that notice shall only be given as last aforesaid when the 

 whereabouts, or the last place of abode or of business in New 

 South Wales, of the person to whom such notice is addressed 

 cannot be discovered by the person issuing such notice. 



And 



