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11. In all cases where it is proposed to divert into any existing or intended cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navigable channel, or into any intended diversion, extension, or enlargement thereof respectively, any water from any existing cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navigable channel, whether directly or derivatively, and whether or not undef any agreement with the owner of the water proposed to be diverted, the advertisements shall state the name of every such last-mentioned cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navigable channel. 12. Every advertisement of a Bill shall be subscribed with the name and address of the person, firm, corporation, or company responsible, for the publication of the advertisement. 13. The last of the advertisements of a Bill shall be published not less than thirty days before the commencement of the Session in which application is to be made for the Bill. Notices to Owners, etc. 14. Where a Bill provides for the compulsory purchase or user of any lands, or for extending the time limited for making any such purchase or user by any existing Act, or for imposing an improvementcharge on any lands, or for rendering any lands liable to an improvement - charge, notice must be served on the owners, lessees, and occupiers of all such lands, inquiring whether they assent to, or dissent from, or are indifferent in respect of, the said provisions of the Bill. 15. Every such notice shall be in writing in the form numbered (1) in the Appendix hereto, or to the like effect. 16. Every such notice may be served either by delivering the same to the person to whom it is addressed, or by leaving the same at his usual or last known place of abode, or by posting the same in a prepaid and registered letter addressed with a sufficient direction to his usual place of abode, and posted in such time that, if delivered in the ordinary course, it would reach his place of abode within the period allowed by Order twenty-three hereof. If any person on whom notice ought to be served as aforesaid be absent from the colony, service on his agent shall be deemed to be good service. 17. Service of any such notice may be proved — (a.) By production of the written answer or acknowledgment of the person addressed ; or (b.) By showing that the notice was in fact delivered or left as aforesaid ; or (c.) Where the notice was posted in a registered letter, then by production of the post-office receipt for the letter, duly stamped, and by showing that the letter was properly and sufficiently addressed and has not been returned by the post-office as undelivered. 18. A list shall be made of all owners, lessees, and occupiers on whom notice is served as aforesaid, distinguishing those who have assented to the provisions of the Bill, those who have dissented therefrom, those who have expressed themselves as indifferent, those who have expressed no opinion, and those who have failed to acknowledge receipt of the notice. Where a notice has been forwarded by post, and no written acknowledgment thereof has been received, or the notice has, at any time before the making-up of the said list, been returned as undelivered, the direction of the letter in which the notice was forwarded shall be inserted in the list. 19. Where a Bill provides for the erection or making of gasworks, or sewage-works, or works for

Bills for diverting water. 5.0., No. 19; S.O. of House of Commons,li No. 7.

Advertisements ] to give name and address of promoter. S.O. of House of Commons, No. 3. Limit of time for publication. 5.0., No. 20.

Owners, <£c, of lands affected by Bill to have notice thereof. Ibid., No. 21; 8.0. of House of Commons, No. 11.

Form of notice. 5.0., No. 22.

Service of notice.

Proof of service. Ibid., No. 23.

Answere to be classified. Ibid., No. 24.

Notice where Bill authorises a nuisance.