✨ Order in Council Continuation
Aug. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3337
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The existence of a blockade shall be presumed to be known—
(a.) To all ships which sailed from or touched at an enemy port a sufficient time after the notification of the blockade to the local authorities to have enabled the enemy government to make known the existence of the blockade:
(b.) To all ships which sailed from or touched at a British or allied port after the publication of the declaration of blockade. -
Notwithstanding the provisions of article thirty-five of the said Declaration, conditional contraband, if shown to have the destination referred to in article thirty-three, is liable to capture to whatever port the vessel is bound and at whatever port the cargo is to be discharged.
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The General Report of the Drafting Committee on the said Declaration presented to the Naval Conference and adopted by the Conference at the eleventh plenary meeting on the 25th February, 1909, shall be considered by all Prize Courts as an authoritative statement of the meaning and intention of the said Declaration, and such Courts shall construe and interpret the provisions of the said Declaration by the light of the commentary given therein.
And the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and each of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, the President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice, all other Judges of his Majesty’s Prize Courts, and all Governors, officers, and authorities whom it may concern, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.
ALMERIC FITZROY.
LIVERPOOL, Governor.
Government House,
Wellington, 27th August, 1914.
By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.
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Order in Council regarding Declaration of London
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🌏 External Affairs & Territories27 August 1914
Order in Council, Declaration of London, Naval Forces, Contraband, Neutral Ships, Blockade
- Almeric Fitzroy
- Liverpool, Governor