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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 91

62. No person who has committed a breach of any regulation and has been ordered to leave the Exhibition shall again enter therein during the Exhibition without express authority in writing of the Executive.

63. Every person who commits a breach of these regulations shall thereby forfeit all right to enter or be in the Exhibition, its buildings or grounds, or to remain thereon by reason of his having paid any admission fee or obtained any ticket of admission, and his ejection from the Exhibition shall give him no right to the return of his admission-money or ticket.

64. It shall be the duty of the Executive and its officers and servants, and they and all constables are hereby authorised, to enforce the due observance and performance of these regulations. The Executive may appoint any person or persons on its behalf to require and enforce the due observance and performance of these regulations.

65. Any person who offends against any of the foregoing regulations shall be liable for any such offence to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Modification of Acts and Customs Duties under “The New Zealand International Exhibition Act, 1906.”

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of October, 1906.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon him by “The New Zealand International Exhibition Act, 1906,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare as follows:—

MODIFICATION OF LABOUR ACTS.

1. In the cases and for the purposes specified in paragraph (a) of section 2 of the aforesaid Act the following provisions of the therein-mentioned Acts are hereby suspended, subject to the conditions mentioned in this Order, that is to say,—

“The Shops and Offices Act, 1904”:

Section 4 (hours of employment) is hereby suspended, except so far as it relates to the weekly limit of hours of employment in paragraph (a), the interval for meals in paragraph (c), and the weekly half-holiday under paragraph (d), which half-holiday may, however, be given on any working-day of the week.

Section 9 (shops to close on statutory closing-day) is hereby suspended.

Section 21 (hours of closing by requisition) is hereby suspended.

Section 23 (office hours) is hereby suspended, provided that a weekly half-holiday is given to office-assistants on some working-day in the week.

“The Shops and Offices Act Amendment Act, 1905”:

Section 3 (limit of employment of shop-assistants) is hereby suspended.

“The Factories Act, 1901”:

Paragraph (3) of section 6 (as to production of certificate of registration) is hereby suspended.

Sections 10 to 16 (registration of factories) are hereby suspended.

Section 17 (records and notices) is hereby suspended.

Sections 18, 19, and 20 (as to hours of work) are hereby suspended, except so far as the same relate to the weekly limit of hours of employment and the interval to be allowed for meals.

Section 33 (holidays) is hereby suspended, except as to the weekly half-holiday, which, however, may be given on any working-day of the week.

“The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1905”:

The Act shall not be deemed to authorise the making of industrial agreements or awards fixing the hours of employment, except with respect to the weekly limit of such hours and the granting of a weekly half-holiday on some working-day of the week.

All industrial agreements and awards now in force under the Act are hereby suspended so far as they fix the hours of employment, except with respect to the weekly limit of such hours and the weekly half-holiday, which, however, may be given on any working-day of the week: Provided that where the weekly limit is not fixed it shall be deemed to be six times the daily limit as fixed.

MODIFICATION OF CHINESE IMMIGRANTS ACT AND IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION ACT.

2. The provisions of “The Chinese Immigrants Act, 1881,” and of “The Immigration Restriction Act, 1899,” are hereby suspended in the case of persons who desire to enter New Zealand as visitors or exhibitors in connection with the Exhibition, and who comply with the following conditions:—

(a.) The person claiming to enter New Zealand under this Order shall, on or before landing, make and deliver to the Collector at the port of landing a declaration in such one of the forms in the Schedule hereto as is applicable:

(b.) He shall also register with the Collector at Christchurch his address whilst in New Zealand, and duly notify that Collector of any change in such address:

(c.) He shall leave New Zealand within twenty-one days after the final closing of the Exhibition:

(d.) Two weeks at least before leaving New Zealand he shall notify the Collector at Christchurch of the vessel by which he intends to leave, and the port of departure.

3. If any person who enters New Zealand under the last preceding clause of this Order makes default in faithfully complying with any of the aforesaid conditions, he may, if the Minister of Customs so directs, be dealt with as a person who has landed in New Zealand in breach of the Act which has been suspended as to him, and if that Act is “The Chinese Immigrants Act, 1881,” he shall also be liable to pay the poll-tax thereby imposed.

4. No person shall be entitled to enter New Zealand under this Order after the 31st day of March, 1907.

5. Nothing hereinbefore contained shall be construed to authorise the admission into New Zealand of any person who is a prohibited immigrant under paragraph (2), (3), or (4) of section 3 of “The Immigration Restriction Act, 1899.”

DUTIES OF CUSTOMS.

6. The Collector at Christchurch may allow goods to be cleared without payment of duty in any of the following cases, that is to say:—

(a.) Pictures, statuary, and works of art exhibited at the Exhibition and subsequently purchased by any public institution (meaning thereby any public institution or art association registered as a corporate body, or any public school, college, or university) for display in the buildings of such institution, and not to be sold or otherwise disposed of by such institution:

(b.) Samples of small value distributed free of charge within the Exhibition buildings or grounds by exhibitors:

(c.) Handbills, circulars, posters, and show-cards relating to exhibits and distributed or displayed free of charge within the Exhibition buildings or grounds by exhibitors:

(d.) Stationery bona fide used in the Exhibition buildings or grounds by exhibitors in connection with their exhibits.

7. Where any picture, statuary, or work of art exhibited at the Exhibition is subsequently purchased by any person and duty is payable thereon, the Collector may assess the value for duty at one-half the price paid by the purchaser, and in such case the duty shall be payable accordingly.

8. Where an exhibitor’s goods are destroyed or injured in the process of judging by juries of awards, the Collector may remit the whole or any part of the duty payable thereon:

Provided that where the whole of the duty on any such goods is remitted the goods shall be abandoned to the Crown under the next succeeding clause hereof.

9. (1.) In lieu of paying duty on any article (whether an exhibit, or any stand, fitting, show-case, or material used by him for the purposes of his exhibits) the exhibitor may abandon the article to the Crown on giving the Collector three days’ previous notice of abandonment and delivering the article to such person as the Collector appoints.

(2.) All articles so abandoned shall be sold by auction at such times and in such manner as the Collector directs, and the net proceeds of the sale (less expenses of and incidental to the sale) shall be paid into the Public Account as part of the Consolidated Fund.

(3.) If in the opinion of the Collector the abandoned article is not worth selling as aforesaid it shall be destroyed, or otherwise disposed of as the Minister of Customs directs.

10. If by any fraud, misrepresentation, or deceit any person obtains or attempts to obtain in respect of any goods any concession of duty under this Order to which he is not properly entitled, he shall be liable to the