New Zealand Gazette – 1916 – No. 24

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✨ Censorship Regulations

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THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1916.

Censorship of Moving Pictures.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this first day of March, 1916.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS it is expedient that certain powers and authorities should be vested in the Minister of Defence in respect of the censorship and control of the exhibition of cinematographs or moving pictures representing events in the course of the present war, or otherwise relating thereto:

Now, therefore, 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, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, make the following regulations; and do, with the like advice and consent, declare that the same shall come into force on the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

The Minister of Defence may, by order signed by him and delivered to the Commissioner of Police, prohibit the exhibition of any cinematograph or moving picture which represents or purports to represent, or may be reasonably supposed to represent, any event in the course of the present war, or which otherwise relates or purports to relate, or may be reasonably supposed to relate, to that war.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1916, No 24

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🏛️ Censorship of Moving Pictures Order in Council

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated1 March 1916
KeywordsCensorship, Moving Pictures, War Regulations, Minister of Defence
👩‍💼 Officials

Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor

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