or amount of the firearms or ammunition so authorized to be sold,

purchased, transferred, supplied, or procured, and the names,

residences, and occupations of the parties to the transaction so

authorized, and shall be dated as of the day of the signature thereof.

(d.) Every such permit shall remain in force for six days after
the day of the date thereof, and shall then become void.

6. (a.) No person shall bring or cause to be brought or sent into
   New Zealand any firearm or ammunition save in pursuance of a
   permit issued in that behalf under this regulation by a Superintendent or Inspector of Police.

(b.) Any such permit may be at any time revoked by a Superintendent or Inspector of Police.

7. (a.) The Minister of Defence may from time to time, by a notice signed by him and published in the Gazette, declare that any area specified in that notice is an area in which the possession of firearms or ammunition without a permit is prohibited, and may, by a similar notice published in the Gazette, cancel any such notice with respect to the whole or any part or parts of the area so specified.

(b.) Any area so specified shall, while and so far as the notice specifying the same remains in force, be deemed to be a prescribed area within the meaning and for the purposes of this regulation.

(c.) No person resident or being in any prescribed area shall, save in pursuance of a permit issued to him by a Superintendent or Inspector of Police, have in his possession or custody in that area any firearm or ammunition at any time later than two clear days after the date of the gazetting of the notice by which such area has been prescribed.

(d.) No person shall bring or send, or cause to be brought or sent, into a prescribed area any firearm or ammunition save in pursuance of a permit issued to him by a Superintendent or Inspector of Police.

(e.) Any such permit as is referred to in this regulation may be at any time revoked by any Superintendent or Inspector of Police by notice in writing delivered to or otherwise brought to the knowledge of the person to whom it was issued.

8. No person shall carry a firearm or other dangerous weapon except for some lawful, proper, and sufficient purpose, and the burden of proving the existence of such purpose shall lie upon the accused.

9. No person shall by the discharge of firearms or in any other manner whatever endanger the safety of any member of the Police Force or of the Defence Forces, or of any person acting in aid of the Police Force or of the Defence Forces.

10. No person without the written permission of a Superintendent or Inspector of Police shall on or in the vicinity of any railway, dock, wharf, harbour, or ship have in his possession or custody any explosive substance or highly inflammable liquid in quantities exceeding the immediate requirements of his business or occupation.

11. Any constable may search any person for any firearms, ammunition, explosives, or dangerous weapons which may be carried by him, and may detain him for the purposes of such search.

12. In these regulations the terms “firearms” and “ammunition” shall not include—
    (a) Shot-guns of a kind ordinarily used in New Zealand for sporting purposes;
    (b.) Ammunition of a kind ordinarily used for such shot-guns;
    (c.) Firearms or ammunition belonging to or supplied by any Department of the Executive Government, and lawfully in the possession or custody of any member of the Defence Forces or of the Police Force or any other person.

13. (a.) The Minister of Defence may, by a notice signed by him and published in the Gazette, declare that any highway adjoining or intersecting any camp of military training or exercise is closed for traffic except with the consent of the military authorities.

(b.) So long as any such notice remains unrevoked the highway to which it relates shall for the purposes of the War Regulations be deemed to be no longer a highway, but to be part of the camp which it so adjoins or intersects.

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