New Zealand Gazette – 1916 – No. 90

Page 2803

✨ War Regulations



Aug. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2803

  1. No woman (other than the licensee, or a servant of the licensee, or a member of the licensee’s family) shall at any time after six o’clock in the evening enter or remain in the bar of any licensed premises or loiter about the entrance to any such bar.

  2. (1.) Every constable may at all times by day or night, and on any day of the week, enter without warrant—

(a.) Any licensed premises; or

(b.) Any premises on which he reasonably suspects that any offence against these regulations or against the provisions of the Licensing Act, 1908, relative to the sale of intoxicating liquor by unlicensed persons, has been or is about to be committed—

and may search the said premises and every part thereof, and may seize any intoxicating liquor found on any premises so entered, other than licensed premises.

(2.) Every person who resists or obstructs a constable in the exercise of the powers so conferred upon him, or who fails or refuses to afford to a constable immediate entrance to any such premises or to any part thereof, shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations, and shall be liable accordingly.

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

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Additional Regulations under the War Regulations Act.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present:

His Excellency the Governor 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, and its amendments, make the following regulations; and I do hereby, with the like advice and consent, declare that these regulations shall come into operation on the twenty-eighth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

REGULATIONS.

  1. (1.) In these regulations—

“House of ill-fame” means any premises used for the purposes of prostitution, whether by one woman or by more than one:

“Public place” has the same meaning as in Part II of the Police Offences Act, 1908.

(2.) When different parts of a building are in separate occupation, each such part shall be deemed to be separate premises within the meaning of these regulations.

  1. (1.) The following persons shall be guilty of offences against these regulations, and shall be liable accordingly:—

(a.) Every person who keeps, manages, occupies, or resides in a house of ill-fame or who acts or assists in the keeping or management of any such house;

(b.) Every person who permits any premises to be used as a house of ill-fame;

(c.) Every person who, being the lessor or landlord of any premises or the agent of such lessor or landlord, lets the same or any part thereof knowing or having reasonable grounds of suspicion that the same or any part thereof is to be used as a house of ill-fame, or permits the continued occupation of any premises knowing or



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🏛️ Additional Regulations under the War Regulations Act (continued from previous page)

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
21 August 1916
War Regulations, Licensing Act, Intoxicating Liquor, Licensed Premises, Treating
  • J. F. Andrews, Clerk of the Executive Council

⚖️ Order in Council regarding Houses of Ill-Fame

⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
21 August 1916
Regulations, Houses of Ill-Fame, Prostitution, Police Offences Act
  • Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand