Nov. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2947

Cook Islands Immigration Regulations extended.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 3rd day of November, 1922.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on him by section fifty-three of the Cook Islands Act, 1908, to make all such regulations as he thinks necessary for the peace, order, and good government of the Cook Islands, and of every other power and authority enabling him in that behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations as an addition to the Cook Islands Immigration Regulations, 1916, made on the second day of October, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and gazetted on the fifth day of the same month; and, with the like advice and consent, doth declare that the regulations hereby made shall come into operation on the fourth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two.

REGULATIONS.

1. IN addition to the restrictions imposed upon immigration into the Cook Islands by the said Cook Islands Immigration Regulations, 1916, it is hereby further provided that no person other than a person of British birth and parentage shall (except as by these regulations is specially provided) enter into the Cook Islands unless he is in possession of a permit to enter in the form numbered 1 in the Schedule hereto.

2. A person shall not be deemed to be of British birth and parentage by reason that he or his parents or either of them is a naturalized British subject, or by reason that he is an aboriginal Native or the descendant of an aboriginal Native of any dominion other than the Dominion of New Zealand, or of any colony or other possession or of any protectorate of His Majesty.

3. Persons who satisfy the Resident Commissioner that by birth and parentage they are actually of a nation or people specified in any Order in Council issued under section 6 of the Immigration Restriction Amendment Act, 1920, of New Zealand shall be exempt from the provisions of these regulations:

Provided that a person shall not be deemed to be actually of a nation or people so specified by reason that he or his parents or either of them is a subject by naturalization of any nation or people so specified, or that he is an aboriginal Native of any colony or possession of such nation or people so specified.

4. Application for a permit to enter the Cook Islands must be made in the form numbered 2 in the Schedule hereto and signed by the applicant, and be addressed to the Resident Commissioner and be sent by post from the country of origin of the applicant, or from the country where the applicant has resided for a period of at least one year prior to the date of the application.

5. The applicant shall in the form of application state his reasons for desiring to settle in the Cook Islands, the business or occupation he proposes to undertake in the Cook Islands, his birth and parentage, the number and ages of his family (if any) whom he proposes to accompany him, his means, and such other details as may be required by the said form of application.

6. The Resident Commissioner, upon receipt of such application, shall consider the same, and may, in his discretion, grant or refuse to the applicant a permit to enter the Cook Islands.

7. Every such permit shall be issued subject to the conditions (if any) printed thereon, or as may in any case be imposed by the Resident Commissioner.

8. A permit may, at the Resident Commissioner’s discretion, be granted to include the wife of the applicant and any one or more members of the applicant’s family.

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