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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 120

REGULATIONS.

1. In these regulations, unless a different intention appears,—
   “Alien enemy” includes (except in Regulations Nos. 9 and 26) any person who has been naturalized in New Zealand and who would have been an alien enemy had he not been so naturalized, and also includes (except as aforesaid) any person reasonably suspected of being an alien enemy:
   “Defended harbour” means any port or harbour defended by any fort or battery:
   “Military authority” means any military officer appointed by the Minister of Defence, by warrant signed by him and gazetted, as a military authority for the purpose of these regulations, whether generally or in respect of any particular place or part of New Zealand:
   “Military officer” means a commissioned officer of the Defence Forces under the Defence Act, 1909; and includes any person who in fact holds office, whether permanently or temporarily, as such a commissioned officer, notwithstanding any irregularity or invalidity in his appointment or in the tenure of his office:
   “Night” means any time after sunset and before sunrise:
   “Officer” means a military officer or a constable:
   “Prisoner of war” means any person detained under the authority of these regulations, and any alien enemy detained whether under these regulations or otherwise.

2. An officer or any person authorized for that purpose by a military authority may arrest without warrant any person who is reasonably suspected of having committed or of being about to commit any breach of these regulations, or of having acted or being about to act in a manner injurious to the public safety or the interests of His Majesty in respect of the present war.

3. Any person so arrested (other than an alien enemy) shall be forthwith brought before a Magistrate or Justice of the Peace to be dealt with in due course of law in respect of any offence of which he may be accused.

4. Any alien enemy so arrested may be brought before a Magistrate or Justice of the Peace to be dealt with in due course of law as aforesaid, or may be detained in such place and manner as a military authority directs and during his pleasure, unless discharged by the Minister of Defence.

5. By the orders or with the authority of a military authority any alien enemy may be arrested by an officer or any other person and detained in such place and manner as the military authority thinks fit and during his pleasure, unless discharged by the Minister of Defence.

6. If a military authority has reason to suspect that any house, building, land, ship, or other premises are being used for any purpose or in any manner injurious to the public safety or the interests of His Majesty in respect of the present war, or contrary to these regulations, or that there is in any house, building, land, ship, or other premises any document, instrument, or other thing whatsoever which may be evidence of any such purpose, or which has been or is about to be used for any such purpose, the military authority, or any officer or other person authorized by him, may enter, if need be by force, the house, building, land, ship, or premises at any time of the day or night, and examine, search, and inspect the same or any part thereof, and may seize any such document, instrument, or other thing as aforesaid which may be found therein.

7. If any ship or boat approaches, enters, leaves, or passes inwards or outwards through any defended harbour, or is reasonably suspected of being about to do so, in disregard of any rules established for that harbour by a military authority and published in the New Zealand Gazette, or in disregard of any warning received from any fort or battery by which the harbour is defended, any officer or other person stationed or lawfully being in the fort or battery may fire upon that ship or boat. At night any ship or boat the identity of which is unknown, and which approaches, enters, leaves, or passes inwards or outwards through any defended harbour, may be so fired at without warning.

8. For the purpose of securing the public safety in respect of the present war a military authority may station an armed guard at any building, ship, or place whatsoever, whether public or private. Such guard may fire upon or otherwise attack any