New Zealand Gazette – 1915 – No. 71

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✨ War Regulations



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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 71

  1. On any goods being so detained as aforesaid, notice of the detention thereof shall be given by or on behalf of the Collector of Customs to the importer, or to his agent or representative, and after the receipt of such notice it shall not be lawful, so long as the detention continues, for the importer or any other person to pay or remit to any person any sum of money in respect of the purchase or consignment of those goods, or to accept, make, pay, negotiate, or otherwise deal with any bill of exchange or other negotiable instrument for the price of those goods or otherwise having relation thereto.

  2. (1.) When any goods have been so detained and notice has been so given as aforesaid, the Comptroller of Customs may, if he thinks fit, deliver the same from the control of the Customs on receiving from the importer, or his agent or representative, a deposit of a sum equal to the fair market value of those goods as estimated by the Comptroller in accordance, as far as may be, with the provisions of the Customs Act, 1913, as to ad valorem duty.

(2.) The sum so deposited shall be returned so soon as the Comptroller is satisfied that the goods are not of enemy manufacture, origin, or ownership, and that they have not been imported in violation of the laws as to trading with the enemy, or so soon as the present war has come to an end, whichever first happens.

(3.) So long as any such deposit is retained clause 3 of these regulations shall apply in the same manner as if the goods were still detained.

  1. If any goods are detained in pursuance of these regulations, they shall not thereafter be delivered from the control of the Customs until the importer has refunded, or undertaken to the satisfaction of a Collector of Customs to refund, all expenses incurred by the Crown in respect of the detention and storage thereof; and any such goods may at any time while they remain under the control of the Customs be sold by the Comptroller of Customs for the purpose of refunding to the Crown out of the proceeds of such sale all expenses so incurred by the Crown whether with respect to the goods so held or any other goods imported by the same importer.

  2. While any goods are so detained as aforesaid, it shall not be lawful for any person to take possession of the same or to interfere in any other manner with the right of detention and control hereby conferred upon the Collector of Customs.

  3. The decision of a Collector of Customs as to the country from which any goods have been imported into New Zealand shall, for the purposes of these regulations, be final and conclusive.

  4. In these regulations the term “Collector of Customs” has the same meaning as in the Customs Act, 1913.

  5. The powers and restrictions conferred and imposed by these regulations are in addition to, and not in substitution for, those conferred and imposed by the regulations made by Order in Council of the 26th day of January, 1915, relative to Certificates of Origin.

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

By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.




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🏛️ Additional Regulations under the War Regulations Act, 1914 (continued from previous page)

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
7 June 1915
War Regulations, Importation, Enemy Goods, Customs
  • J. F. Andrews, Clerk of the Executive Council