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9. While any goods are detained under the authority of these regulations 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 or control hereby conferred upon the Collector of Customs.

10. The foregoing regulations or the exercise of the powers thereby conferred shall in no way exclude or affect any provisions as to forfeiture or punishment contained in the Customs Act, 1913, the Trading with the Enemy Act, 1914, the War Regulations, or any other Act or regulations in that behalf.

11. The War Regulations of the 7th day of June, 1915, relating to the detention of suspected goods, together with clause 13 of the War Regulations of the 2nd day of May, 1916, relating to the same matter, are hereby revoked, but shall nevertheless continue to apply to all goods detained or moneys deposited in pursuance thereof before the coming into operation of the present regulations.

12. (1.) The War Regulations of the 26th day of January, 1915, relating to certificates of origin, are hereby amended by revoking clauses 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 18 thereof and the Second Schedule thereto.

(2.) The War Regulations of the 8th day of March, 1915, and of the 10th day of April, 1916, relating to certificates of origin, are hereby revoked.

ARMY CONTRACTS.

13. (1.) In these regulations—
    “Army contract” means a contract made by any person with the Crown (whether before or after the coming into operation of these regulations) in respect of or for the purposes of the present war :
    “Army contractor” means any person who is a party to an army contract made with the Crown (whether before or after the coming into operation of these regulations).

(2.) Every person who (whether before or after the coming into operation of these regulations) has made any contract with an army contractor in respect of or for the purposes of an army contract made by that army contractor, and who commits any wilful breach of the contract so made by him with the army contractor, whereby or in consequence of which any breach of the army contract, whether wilful or not, is committed by the army contractor, shall be guilty of an offence against the War Regulations Act, 1914, and shall be liable accordingly.

(3.) Without in any manner limiting the generality of the foregoing provisions, every person who, being in the employment of an army contractor, wilfully commits any breach of his contract of service, whereby or in consequence of which any breach of an army contract, whether wilful or not, is committed by the army contractor, or commits or is a party to any wilful act or default with intent that any such breach of an army contract shall be committed by the army contractor, shall be guilty of an offence against the War Regulations Act, 1914, and shall be liable accordingly.

(4.) Nothing in these regulations shall in any manner restrict or affect the operation of any other War Regulations relative to contracts made with the Crown.

MISCELLANEOUS.

14. Clause 1 of the War Regulations of the 24th day of July, 1916, relating to licenses for the importation of goods, is hereby amended by adding the following subclause thereto :—
    (c.) Without in any manner limiting the generality of the foregoing provisions, goods shall for the purpose of this regulation be deemed to be imported from any country in which they have been wholly or partially manufactured or produced, or in which any person from or through whom they have been procured has his chief place of business.

15. (1.) Whenever by virtue of the War Regulations or any declaration made thereunder, whether before or after the date of the present regulations, it is unlawful to purchase goods from any person, it shall also be unlawful to purchase or otherwise procure from any other person, being or carrying on business out of New Zealand, any goods wholly or partly manufactured or produced by, or sold by, or procured from or through such first-mentioned person.

(2.) Clause 13 of the War Regulations of the 24th day of July, 1916, is hereby revoked.

16. These regulations shall be read together with and deemed part of the War Regulations of the 10th day of November, 1914.

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