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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 19

so has been granted to or in favour of the owner or charterer of
such steamship by the Licensing Committee appointed by the
President of the Board of Trade under the provisions of the afore-
said Order in Council of November the tenth, one thousand nine
hundred and fifteen, which license may be general in reference to
classes of ships or their voyages, or special, and the President of
the Board of Trade to act and give instructions and directions
accordingly.

ALMERIC FITZROY.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

Government House,
Wellington, 22nd February, 1916.

Additional Regulations under the War Regulations Act, 1914.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty-second day
of February, 1916.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.

I, ARTHUR WILLIAM DE BRITO SAVILE, Earl of Liverpool,
Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
Dominion, do hereby, in pursuance of the War Regulations Act, 1914,
make the following additional regulations under that Act.

REGULATIONS.

1. THESE regulations shall be read together with and shall be deemed
   part of the War Regulations made on the 10th day of November,

3. Save with the consent of the Attorney-General, no person
   shall, whether on his own behalf or on behalf of any other person,
   make or be concerned in making any application to the Supreme
   Court for probate of the will, or for letters of administration of
   the estate, of any person who on his death was an alien enemy,
   wherever resident, or for the resealing in New Zealand of any such
   probate or letters of administration granted elsewhere.

4. Save with the consent of the Attorney-General, no alien
   enemy, wherever resident, and no person on behalf of an alien
   enemy, wherever resident, shall make or be concerned in making
   any application to the Supreme Court for probate of the will, or for
   letters of administration of the estate, of any person deceased, or
   for the resealing in New Zealand of any such probate or letters of
   administration granted elsewhere.

5. No executor, administrator, or trustee of the estate of any
   deceased person shall, without the consent of the Attorney-General,
   distribute or pay any part of the assets or proceeds of that estate
   to any beneficiary or creditor who is an alien enemy, wherever
   resident, or to any other person on his behalf.

6. All documents, instruments, and other things seized in pur-
   suance of the powers conferred upon a military authority by clause
   6 of the War Regulations of the 10th day of November, 1914, shall
   be detained until a military authority or the Attorney-General
   directs or authorizes their return to the person entitled thereto.

7. The last preceding regulation shall extend and apply to all
   documents, instruments, and other things so seized before the
   coming into operation of these regulations and not already returned
   to the person entitled thereto.

8. The definition of “alien enemy” in clause 3 of the War
   Regulations of the 19th day of July, 1915, is hereby amended so as
   to include all persons who are or at any time have been subjects of
   the State of Bulgaria.

9. No person shall, without the written consent of a military
   authority, publish, or cause or permit to be published, in a news-
   paper any statement as to the cargo laden or about to be laden on
   any ship which is about to leave New Zealand for the United