New Zealand Gazette – 1920 – No. 51

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✨ Samoa Liquor Regulations



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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 51

THE SAMOA SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUOR REGULATIONS, 1920.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this first day of April, 1920.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, and in pursuance of the authority to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Territory of Western Samoa conferred upon him by the Western Samoa Order in Council, 1920, made by His Majesty on the eleventh day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty, under the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890, doth hereby make the following regulations with respect to the sale of intoxicating liquor in the said territory; and doth hereby declare that the said regulations shall come into force in the said territory on the same day as the Samoa Constitution Order, 1920.

REGULATIONS.

  1. These regulations may be cited as the Samoa Sale of Intoxicating Liquor Regulations, 1920.

  2. All liquor imported by the Administrator in pursuance of the Samoa Constitution Order, 1920, shall, pending the disposition thereof for the hospitals and medical services of Samoa, or the sale thereof for medicinal, sacramental, or industrial purposes in accordance with that Order, be retained in the custody and control of a Collector of Customs or other officer of the Samoan Public Service authorized in that behalf by the Administrator.

  3. Any liquor so retained as aforesaid and available for sale may be sold by the Collector or other custodian for cash on delivery, at such prices as may be approved by the Administrator, not being less than the landed cost thereof.

  4. No liquor shall be sold for medicinal purposes except in pursuance of a certificate issued by a medical officer, within one month prior to the delivery of the liquor so sold, to the effect that alcoholic liquor is required by the purchaser or members of his family for medical reasons. Every such certificate shall set out the nature and quantity of the liquor so required.

  5. No liquor shall be sold for sacramental purposes except to a minister of religion approved for this purpose by the Administrator.

  6. No liquor shall be sold for industrial purposes except in pursuance of the written authority of the Administrator.

  7. The Collector or other custodian shall keep a record, in form approved by the Administrator, of all liquor received or disposed of by him, whether by way of sale or otherwise.

  8. Every person who deceives or attempts to deceive a Collector of Customs, or other custodian of liquor, or the Administrator, or a medical officer, with intent to procure, by purchase or otherwise, any intoxicating liquor shall be liable to imprisonment for three months or to a fine of fifty pounds.

F. D. THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.



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🌏 Samoa Sale of Intoxicating Liquor Regulations, 1920

🌏 External Affairs & Territories
1 April 1920
Regulations, Intoxicating Liquor, Sale, Western Samoa, Customs, Medical, Sacramental, Industrial
  • Liverpool, Governor-General
  • W. F. Massey, P.C.
  • F. D. Thomson, Clerk of the Executive Council