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term) the effective conduct of the military or naval operations of His Majesty during the present war, and also the maintenance of industries essential for the public welfare, and also the prevention of seditious utterances as defined by the War Regulations of the 4th December, 1916.

14. (1.) Clause 2 of the regulations made under the War Regulations Act, 1914, on the 11th of October, 1915, and relating to prohibited publications, is hereby amended by revoking paragraph (d) thereof and by adding to that clause the following paragraphs :—

“ (e.) No person shall print a prohibited publication.

“ (f.) No person shall deliver a prohibited publication to any other person, or have in his possession a prohibited publication for the purpose of such delivery.

“ (g.) No act done in good faith by an officer of police or other servant of the Crown in the execution of his office shall constitute an offence against this regulation.

“ (h.) Every abridgment or extract from or abstract of a prohibited publication shall be itself a prohibited publication.

“ (i.) Every periodical publication which is published in succession to or in substitution for a prohibited periodical publication, and which has the same proprietor, publisher, editor, or printer, shall be itself a prohibited publication.”

(2.) Clause 2 of the aforesaid regulations of the 11th October, 1915, as amended by these present regulations, shall apply to all prohibited publications, whether the sale thereof has been prohibited before or after the making of these present regulations.

15. (1.) Save in a newspaper duly registered under the Printers and Newspapers Registration Act, 1908, no person shall print any matter relating to or referring to the present war unless such matter has been submitted to censorship, and approved for publication by a Censor appointed under these regulations.

(2.) No person shall do any act with intent to procure the printing elsewhere than in New Zealand, but for sale, publication, or distribution in New Zealand, of any matter relating or referring to the present war, unless such matter has been submitted to censorship, and approved for publication by a Censor appointed under these regulations.

(3.) The printing of a proof for revision or for submission to censorship shall not be an offence against this regulation.

(4.) No person shall sell or distribute, or have in his possession for sale or distribution, any printed matter which has been printed or the printing of which has been procured in breach of this regulation.

(5.) For the purposes of this regulation printing shall be deemed to include all mechanical methods of multiplying a document.

16. No person shall print or publish in any periodical publication, or in any other printed document,—

(a.) Any matter or statement which in any manner indicates, or may be reasonably supposed to indicate, the existence in that document of any omission, alteration, or addition due to the exercise of the powers of censorship conferred by these regulations; or

(b.) Any statement or indication that any matter or kind of matter has been required to be submitted to censorship under these regulations, or that a Censor has refused his authority for the printing or publication of any matter or kind of matter.

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

By Authority : MARCUS F. MARKS, Government Printer, Wellington.