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public safety or the interests of His Majesty in respect of the war, the Commissioner may by notice prohibit the use of that place for meetings having reference to the war.

7. So long as any such notice remains in force with respect to any place, every meeting held in that place and having reference to the war shall, unless held in pursuance of a written permit issued by the Commissioner of Police, be an unlawful meeting within the meaning and for the purposes of these regulations.

8. Every person who permits an unlawful meeting to be held in or upon any premises or land owned or occupied by him shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations, and shall be liable accordingly.

9. Every person, other than a constable or a person acting in aid of the police, who is present at an unlawful meeting, or who is a party to the holding of any such meeting, shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations, and shall be liable accordingly.

10. So long as any such notice remains in force with respect to any place, a constable may at all times by day or night, when he has reason to believe that any meeting is being or is about to be held in that place, enter upon that place and upon every part thereof, and any one who obstructs a constable in the exercise of this right of entry shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations, and shall be liable accordingly.

11. Every such notice shall be given either by publishing the same in some newspaper circulating in the neighbourhood of the place to which the notice relates, or by publicly exhibiting the same at that place. Every person who without lawful authority removes or otherwise interferes with any notice so exhibited at any time while it remains in force shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations, and shall be liable accordingly.

12. It shall be sufficient if any such notice issued in respect of any place sets forth that meetings having reference to the war are prohibited in that place under the War Regulations.

13. Every such notice shall remain in force until revoked by the Commissioner of Police by a notice published in some newspaper circulating in the neighbourhood of the place to which it relates.

14. In these regulations—

    “Meeting” means any assembly at which more than twelve persons are present:

    “Place” means a building, or a part of a building, or a public place within the meaning of Part II of the Police Offences Act, 1908, or a piece of land owned or occupied by any person.

Miscellaneous.

16. No prosecution for an offence against the War Regulations of the 21st day of August, 1916 (relating to treating), shall, without the consent of the Attorney-General, be commenced—

    (a.) Against any constable; or

    (b.) Against any other person in respect of an act done by him in pursuance of the directions of a Superintendent or Inspector of Police.

F. W. FURBY.
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Prohibiting the Importation into New Zealand of certain Newspapers and Periodical Literature.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-first day of December, 1916.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section forty-six of the Customs Act, 1913, as extended by section two of the Regulation of Trade and Commerce Amendment Act, 1915, it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time by Order in Council prohibit the importation into New Zealand of any goods the prohibition of the importation of which is in his opinion necessary in the public interest: And whereas in the opinion of the Governor it is necessary in the public interest that the importation into New Zealand of the newspapers and periodical literature hereinafter referred to should be prohibited: