New Zealand Gazette – 1931 – No. 34

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✨ Samoa Vagrancy Order



THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 34

The Samoa Vagrancy Order, 1931.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 27th day of April,
1931.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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 regulations for the peace, order, and good government of Samoa
conferred upon him by the Samoa Act, 1921, and of all other powers
and authorities enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby make the
following regulations.

REGULATIONS.

  1. This Order may be cited as “The Samoa Vagrancy Order, 1931.”

VAGRANT DEFINED.

  1. Every person in Samoa (other than a Samoan born in Samoa)
    who has no lawful means of support or has insufficient lawful means of
    support shall be deemed a vagrant, and shall be liable to imprisonment
    for six months.

APPREHENSION OF VAGRANTS.

  1. Where any constable has reasonable cause to believe that any
    person is a vagrant he may arrest such person, either with or without
    warrant, and bring him before the High Court as soon as possible thereafter.

ONUS OF PROOF.

  1. (1) If any person arrested under the last preceding clause fails
    to prove to the satisfaction of the High Court that he has sufficient
    lawful means of support or that such means of support are lawful, he
    shall be deemed to be a vagrant within the meaning of this Order, and
    liable accordingly.

(2) The fact that any person charged under this Order can produce
or prove that he possesses money or property shall not be taken into
account in deciding such charge unless he shows by his own or other
evidence that he honestly obtained such money or property.

DISORDERLY PERSONS.

  1. (1) Every person shall be deemed a disorderly person and liable
    to imprisonment for one year who is found armed with any offensive or
    dangerous weapon, instrument, or thing, unless such person can prove to
    the satisfaction of the High Court that he was so armed for a lawful
    purpose.

(2) Every such weapon, instrument, or thing, shall by the conviction
of the offender, become forfeited to His Majesty.

MISCELLANEOUS.

  1. Notwithstanding the revocation of “The Samoa Immigration
    Consolidation Order, 1924,” clause fourteen thereof shall be deemed to
    have been in full force and effect from the date of the said repeal until
    the coming into force of this Order, but no longer.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.



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🌏 The Samoa Vagrancy Order, 1931

🌏 External Affairs & Territories
27 April 1931
Vagrancy, Samoa, Regulations, Order in Council, Peace, Order, Good Government
  • BLEDISLOE, Governor-General
  • F. D. THOMSON, Clerk of the Executive Council