THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 103

securing the public safety during the present war, he may give or cause
to be given to the proprietor or manager of any printing-press a notice—
(a.) That no matter is to be printed on that printing-press until such
matter has been submitted to censorship under these regula-
tions, and the publication thereof has been authorized by a
Censor; or
(b.) That any matter or kind of matter specified in the notice is not
to be printed on that printing-press until the matter so to be
printed has been submitted to censorship under these regula-
tions, and the publication thereof has been authorized by a
Censor.

4. Every notice given under the preceding regulations shall remain
   in force until revoked by the Attorney-General.

5. (1.) The Attorney-General may appoint such persons as he thinks
   fit as Censors for the purpose of these regulations, and may at any time
   cancel any such appointment.

(2.) All matter submitted for censorship under these regulations shall
be examined by a Censor so appointed, who if satisfied that its publi-
cation is not prejudicial to the public safety shall approve the same for
publication, but if not so satisfied shall refuse such approval.

6. Except where other provision is made in that behalf by any such
   notice as aforesaid, all matter required by any such notice to be sub-
   mitted to censorship shall for that purpose be transmitted to the Chief
   of the General Staff of the Defence Forces at Wellington.

7. If any issue of a periodical publication which is required to be
   submitted to censorship under these regulations is published without
   being so submitted or without the approval of a Censor appointed under
   these regulations, or if any matter required to be submitted to censor-
   ship under these regulations is published in any issue of a periodical
   publication without having been so submitted or without the approval
   of a Censor so appointed, the publisher, editor, and printer of that
   publication, and every person knowingly concerned in the publishing of
   such issue, shall be severally guilty of an offence against these regula-
   tions, and shall be liable under the War Regulations Act, 1914,
   accordingly.

8. (1.) If any matter which is required to be submitted to censorship
   under these regulations before being printed on any printing-press is
   printed on that press without having been so submitted, or without the
   approval of a Censor appointed under these regulations, the printer
   and every person knowingly concerned in the printing thereof shall be
   severally guilty of an offence against these regulations, and shall be
   liable under the War Regulations Act, 1914, accordingly.

(2.) The printing of a proof for revision or for submission to censor-
ship shall not be an offence against these regulations.

9. (1.) For the purposes of these regulations a periodical publication
   shall be deemed to be identical with any periodical publication which
   is published in succession thereto or in substitution therefor, and which
   has the same proprietor, publisher, editor, or printer, and every notice
   given under these regulations in respect of the former publication shall
   continue in force with respect to any such succeeding or substituted
   publication.

(2.) For the purposes of these regulations a printing-press shall be
deemed to preserve its identity notwithstanding any change of name or
otherwise, if the proprietor, manager, premises, or plant remains the
same; and every notice given under these regulations shall remain in
force accordingly.

10. For the purposes of these regulations every issue of a periodical
    publication shall be deemed to include as part thereof every document
    which is printed or published for sale or distribution along with copies
    of that publication.

11. Every person who commits an offence against the Printers and
    Newspapers Registration Act, 1908, shall also be guilty of an offence
    against these regulations, and shall be liable under the War Regulations
    Act, 1914, accordingly.

12. Every notice authorized by these regulations to be given to the
    proprietor, publisher, editor, or printer of a periodical publication or
    to the proprietor or manager of a printing-press may (without excluding
    any other mode of delivery) be given by leaving the same on the pre-
    mises at which the periodical publication is published, printed, or
    managed, or on the premises on which the printing-press is situated,
    as the case may be, and may be addressed to such proprietor, publisher,
    editor, printer, or manager by description as such, and without naming
    him.

13. The term “public safety” as used in these regulations shall be
    deemed to include (without in any manner limiting the scope of the