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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 91

without warrant any person who is reasonably suspected of having committed or of being about to commit any breach of these regulations.

5. Nothing in these regulations shall make it an offence for the master or any member of the crew or any passenger of a ship lawfully lying at a guarded wharf to land upon that wharf from such ship.

6. It shall not be lawful for any person without the written permit of a naval or military authority to approach within fifty yards of a guarded wharf in any pleasure boat of any kind or size, or in any other boat, launch, or vessel of less than 15 tons gross register, not being an official naval, military, or Harbour Board craft.

7. 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 War Regulations providing for Compulsory National Service by Alien Enemies and other Persons of Alien Enemy Descent.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of June, 1918.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS by section twenty-five of the Finance Act, 1918, the Governor-General is authorized to make War Regulations for procuring, exacting, enforcing, controlling, and regulating national service, as defined in the said section, during the present war: And whereas it is expedient to make regulations accordingly with respect to services required to be rendered by alien enemies and persons of alien enemy descent as hereinafter provided:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the War Regulations Act, 1914, and its amendments, and by section twenty-five of the Finance Act, 1918, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following War Regulations for the purposes aforesaid.

REGULATIONS.

1. THESE regulations may be cited as the Alien Service Regulations.

2. In these regulations—

“Commissioner” means the Commissioner appointed for the purposes of these regulations.

“Alien enemy” means and includes every person who is or has at at any time been a subject of any State with which His Majesty is now at war, notwithstanding that such person may be also by birth, naturalization, or otherwise a British subject, or may have in any manner ceased to be a subject of any such State.

“Alien reservist” means, without in any manner restricting the foregoing definition of alien enemy, a person who, having been called up for service under the Military Service Act, 1916, and not having served beyond the seas with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, has leave of absence from military service, and whose father is or at any time was a subject of any State with which His Majesty is now at war.

“Medical Officer” means any duly qualified medical practitioner named by the Commissioner in a requirement by the Commissioner under these regulations.

“National service” means any work or service in the employment of the Executive Government of New Zealand or of any local authority in connection with any road or railway construction or drainage works, or in the employment of the Executive Government aforesaid or of any private employer in connection with any pastoral or agricultural operations, and all such forms of service are hereby declared to be essential to the public welfare for the purposes of section 25 of the Finance Act, 1918.

3. The Minister of Defence may, by notice under his hand and gazetted, appoint any person to be the Commissioner for the purposes of these regulations.