War Regulations




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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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having reasonable grounds of suspicion that the same
or any part thereof is used as a house of ill-fame;
(d.) Every woman who loiters in a public place for the pur-
poses of prostitution;
(e.) Every male person over the age of fifteen years who lives,
whether wholly or in part, upon the earnings of a
prostitute.
(2.) Every male person over the age of fifteen years who
habitually lives or consorts with a prostitute shall be deemed to
be living upon the earnings of that prostitute unless he proves
the contrary.
3. (1.) A Justice of the Peace, if satisfied that there are reason-
able grounds for suspecting that any building or part of a building
is a house of ill-fame, may issue a warrant authorizing an officer
of police named in the warrant and not below the rank of sergeant
to enter that building and search the same and every part thereof.
(2.) The officer to whom such a warrant has been issued may at
any time, whether by day or night, and on any day of the week,
if accompanied by another officer of police, enter the building to
which the warrant relates and search the same and every part
thereof.
(3.) Every person who obstructs or resists an officer of police
while acting or assisting in the execution of any such warrant, or
who fails or refuses to afford to any such officer of police immediate
entrance to the building in respect of which the warrant has been
issued or to any part of that building, shall be guilty of an offence
against these regulations and shall be liable accordingly, and in
case of any such obstruction, resistance, failure, or refusal the
warrant may be executed by force.
(4.) Nothing in this regulation shall be so construed as to
restrict, affect, or take away the general power of entry and search
in pursuance of the warrant of a military authority which is con-
ferred by the War Regulations of the 10th day of November, 1914.
4. (1.) When any person is convicted of an offence against
clause 2. of these regulations, the Commissioner of Police may at
any time thereafter make an order in writing prohibiting that
person from residing or being present, at any time within six
months after the date of the conviction, within fifty miles of a place
to be specified in the order.
(2.) Every such order shall take effect on the expiration of
seven days after the day on which the order has been served on
or otherwise brought to the knowledge of the person against whom
it is made.
(3.) Every person who disobeys any order so made by the Com-
missioner of Police shall be guilty of an offence against these
regulations, and shall be liable accordingly.
(4.) The pendency of an appeal from any such conviction shall
not suspend the operation of any such order, except so far as the
Commissioner of Police or a Magistrate may otherwise from time
to time direct.
5. 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, 1914.

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,
the 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



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⚖️ Order in Council regarding Houses of Ill-Fame (continued from previous page)

⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
21 August 1916
Regulations, Houses of Ill-Fame, Prostitution, Police Offences Act
  • J. F. Andrews, Clerk of the Executive Council

🏛️ Additional Regulations under the War Regulations Act, 1914

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
21 August 1916
War Regulations, Order in Council, Executive Council
  • Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor