✨ Amendment to Declaration of London Order in Council
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 39
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The provisions of Article 1 (ii) and (iii) of the said Order in Council shall apply to absolute contraband as well as to conditional contraband.
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The destinations referred to in Article 30 and Article 33 of the said Declaration shall (in addition to any presumptions laid down in the said Order in Council) be presumed to exist if the goods are consigned to or for a person who during the present hostilities has forwarded imported contraband goods to territory belonging to or occupied by the enemy.
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In the cases covered by Articles 2 and 3 of this Order it shall be upon the owner of the goods to prove that their destination was innocent.
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From and after the date of this Order Article 19 of the Declaration of London shall cease to be adopted and put in force. Neither a vessel nor her cargo shall be immune from capture for breach of blockade upon the sole ground that she is at the moment on her way to a non-blockaded port.
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This Order may be cited as “The Declaration of London Order in Council, 1916.”
And the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury and Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and each of His Majesty’s principal Secretaries of State, the President of the Probate Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice, all other Judges of His Majesty’s Prize Courts, and all Governors, officers, and authorities whom it may concern, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.
LIVERPOOL, Governor.
Government House,
Wellington, 5th April, 1916.
By Authority: JOHN MACRAY, Government Printer, Wellington.
Online Sources for this page:
VUW Te Waharoa —
NZ Gazette 1916, No 39
NZLII —
NZ Gazette 1916, No 39
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Amendment to Declaration of London Order in Council
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🌏 External Affairs & Territories5 April 1916
Order in Council, Declaration of London, Contraband, Blockade, Neutral Ports
- LIVERPOOL, Governor