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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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4. Nothing in the foregoing regulations shall make it an offence to publish in New Zealand—
   (a.) Any matter contained in a newspaper printed in the United Kingdom after the 23rd day of December, 1916, and received in New Zealand prior to the publication there of such matter;
   or
   (b.) Any matter transmitted to New Zealand by telegram from a recognized Press agency in the United Kingdom, and passed for publication in a newspaper by the censors of telegraphic messages; or
   (c.) Any information as to shipping casualties.

ARREST OF OFFENDERS AGAINST THE ARMY ACT.

5. (1.) If an authorized officer (within the meaning of the Military Service Act, 1916) has reasonable cause to suspect that a soldier of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force has committed, whether before or after the making of these regulations, any offence for which he is liable to be tried and punished under the Army Act, such authorized officer may issue to an officer of police his warrant for the arrest of that soldier.
   (2.) Every such warrant may be addressed to all constables, and shall be sufficient if it purports to be issued in pursuance of the Army Act.
   (3.) Every such warrant may be executed by any constable, whether the warrant has been delivered to him or not, and on any day of the week.
   (4.) Every soldier so arrested shall be delivered into military custody in accordance with the tenor of the warrant.

DETENTION OF DISAFFECTED ALIENS.

6. A military authority, if satisfied that any alien is disaffected or is of such a character that his liberty is a source of public danger, may order the arrest of that alien and his detention in such place as the military authority thinks fit, and during his pleasure, unless discharged by the Minister of Defence, and such alien may be arrested and detained accordingly in pursuance of the tenor of such order.
7. These regulations shall be deemed part of and read together with the War Regulations of the 10th day of November, 1914.

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

Coal Trade Regulations under the War Regulations Amendment Act, 1916.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this fifth day of February, 1917.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE JAMES ALLEN PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the War Regulations Amendment Act, 1916, it is enacted that the Governor in Council may by regulations make such provisions as, having regard to the exigencies of the present war or the conditions created thereby, he thinks advisable for the maintenance of industries essential for the public welfare:

And whereas the coal-mining industry, the shipping industry, the administration of the public railways, and divers manufacturing industries dependent on the supply of coal are industries essential for the public welfare:

And whereas, having regard to the exigencies of the present war and the conditions created thereby, it is advisable to make provision in manner hereinafter set forth for the maintenance of the said industries by securing the adequate production and proper supply of coal:

Now, therefore, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, and in pursuance of the War Regulations Amendment Act, 1916, doth hereby make the following regulations under that Act.

REGULATIONS.

PART I.

1. THESE regulations may be cited as the Coal Trade Regulations.
2. Part I of these regulations shall come into operation on the day of the making thereof.
3. The term “Minister in Charge” means a member of the Executive Council charged by the Governor with the administration of the Coal Trade Regulations.