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person who by day or night, in disregard of a warning received from the guard, approaches, enters, or leaves, or attempts to approach, enter, or leave, the building, ship, or place so guarded. All members of the Defence Forces stationed at any fort, battery, ship, or camp shall be deemed for the purposes of these regulations to be an armed guard there stationed by a military authority.

9. The Attorney-General may lay before the Governor an information charging an alien enemy with having done, or attempted or conspired to do, or with having incited any other person to do, any act with intent to assist His Majesty’s enemies or to interfere with the effective conduct of the military or naval operations of His Majesty during the present war, and the Governor may thereupon appoint any three or more military officers as a Court-martial with power to try such alien enemy on the said charge, and on conviction he shall be liable to suffer death. The procedure on any such trial shall be such as may be prescribed by rules made in that behalf by the Minister of Defence; and in default of any such rules, and so far as they do not extend, the procedure shall be such as appears to the Court to be most consistent with natural justice.

10. No person shall assist or connive at the escape of any prisoner of war, or knowingly harbour or assist any prisoner of war who has escaped.

11. No person shall obstruct, interfere with, or mislead any officer or other person who is carrying out the orders of a military authority, or who is otherwise acting in accordance with his powers or duties under these regulations.

12. No person having in his possession any information which may be of use to an officer in the execution of his powers or duties under these regulations shall withhold such information from the officer when reasonably required by him to give the same.

13. No person shall trespass on any building or ship in the possession or use of the Crown, or on any land appurtenant to any such building, or on any fort, battery, camp, or other place used by the Crown for any military or naval purposes, or on any land or building used for telegraphic purposes (whether in the possession or use of the Crown or not), or on any land or building in the possession of a Harbour Board, or on any railway.

14. No person shall in any manner publish or spread false reports likely to create disaffection or alarm.

15. No person shall harbour any person whom he knows or has reasonable grounds for supposing to have acted in contravention of these regulations.

16. No person shall, save in pursuance of a license issued under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, or with the permission in writing of a military authority, have in his possession any instrument or apparatus capable of or constructed or adapted for receiving or transmitting messages by wireless telegraphy, or any portion of any such instrument or apparatus, or any materials, instrument, or apparatus intended by him to be used or adapted for such a purpose.

17. No person having the possession, control, or use of any apparatus for the transmission or reception of messages by wireless telegraphy shall use the same or permit the same to be used in any manner contrary to instructions received from a military authority, or contrary to the terms of any license or regulations by which the equipment or use of such apparatus is authorized or regulated.

18. No master or officer of a ship, or person in charge of or having the control of any boat, shall cause or permit such ship or boat to enter or leave a defended harbour, or proceed inwards or outwards through a defended harbour, in disregard of any rules made in that behalf 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, or from any ship or boat stationed in or about such harbour by a military authority.

19. No person shall, without the permission of a military authority or of the Minister of Defence, publish or communicate, or permit to be published or communicated, any information with respect to the movements or disposition of any of the forces, ships, or war materials of His Majesty or of His Majesty’s allies, or with respect to the plans of any naval or military operations by any such forces or ships, or with respect to any works or measures undertaken for or connected with the fortification or defence of any place, or as to any other military or naval matters, if the information is such as might be directly or indirectly useful to the enemy.