Nov. 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3265

Additional Customs Regulations. (C. No. 34.)

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 21st day of November, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. G. COATES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Customs Act, 1913 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Act”), and by the Customs Amendment Act, 1921, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this 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 revoke clauses six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, and twelve of the Customs Regulations made by Order in Council of the fourth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and gazetted on the seventh day of the same month; and doth, with the like advice and consent, make the following regulations for the purposes of the said Acts; and doth hereby order that such revocation shall take effect and the following regulations (with the exception of regulation two and the First Schedule) shall come into force on and from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, and that regulation two and the First Schedule shall come into force on the date of publication hereof in the Gazette.

ADDITIONAL CUSTOMS REGULATIONS.

1. THESE regulations may be cited as “The Customs (Tariff Preference and General) Regulations, 1925,” and shall be deemed to be part of the Customs Regulations gazetted on the 2nd day of July, 1914.

2. (1.) Declarations required or authorized by the principal Act may be made and subscribed before any Justice of the Peace.

(2.) The forms mentioned in the First Schedule hereto are amended as indicated in that Schedule.

3. The forms prescribed in these regulations are those in the Second Schedule hereto.

4. All invoices for goods imported into New Zealand shall, except where not so required by the Collector, be in Form 1, and shall, subject to the provisions of Regulation 9 hereof, have printed or written thereon a certificate in Form 2.

5. The following shall be the classes of goods which shall be deemed for the purposes of the Customs Amendment Act, 1921, to be the produce or manufacture of countries the produce or manufactures of which are entitled to be entered for duty under the British Preferential Tariff:—

(a.) Goods wholly the produce of such countries;

(b.) Goods wholly manufactured within such countries from materials produced in such countries;

(c.) Goods manufactured within such countries in which all the manufacturing processes are performed in such countries from unmanufactured raw materials and/or from one or more of the partly manufactured raw materials, not produced in such countries, enumerated in the list in the Third Schedule hereto.

(d.) Goods partially produced or partially manufactured in such countries; provided that the final process of manufacture has been performed in one of such countries, and also that the expenditure in material produced in such countries and/or labour performed within such countries (calculated subject to the qualification in the next succeeding regulation hereof) in each and every article is not less than one-half of the factory or works cost of such article in its finished state.

6. In the calculation of the proportion of produce or labour of such countries for the purpose of paragraph (d) of the preceding regulation, none of the following items shall be included or considered:—

(a.) Manufacturer’s profit, or the profit or remuneration of any trader, agent, broker, or other person dealing in the article in its finished condition; or

(b.) Royalties; or

(c.) The cost of outside packages or any cost of packing the goods thereinto; or

(d.) Any cost of conveying, insuring, or shipping the goods subsequent to their manufacture.