New Zealand Gazette – 1939 – No. 68

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✨ Censorship and Publicity Regulations

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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“Postal censor” means a person appointed to act as a postal censor under Regulation 5 hereof:

“Postal packet” means a letter, post-card, letter-card, newspaper, a book-packet, pattern or sample packet or parcel, New Zealand parcel, foreign parcel, and every other packet or article transmissible by post, and includes a telegram :

“Telegraphic censor” means a person appointed to act as a telegraphic censor under Regulation 7 hereof:

“Telegraph-station” means any station or place in New Zealand at which telegraphic messages are received from or transmitted to any place outside New Zealand, and includes all cables or wires connected with that station, and all things necessary for the efficient working thereof.

“Cinematograph film” includes a sound-track and any other article on which sounds have been recorded for the purpose of their being reproduced in connection with the exhibition of cinematograph film :

“To publish” means to communicate to the public or to any person or persons whether in writing or orally or by radio-telegraphy or radio-telephony or otherwise ; and in relation to cinematograph-film includes the mechanical or electrical reproduction of any sound in connection with the projection of the film ; and “publication” has a corresponding meaning.

REGULATION 2.—CENSORSHIP AND PUBLICITY BOARD.

(1) There shall be a Board, to be known as the Censorship and Publicity Board.

(2) The members of the Board shall be the Prime Minister, the Minister of Defence, the Postmaster-General and Minister of Telegraphs, the Chiefs of the Naval, General, and Air Staffs, the Permanent Head of the Prime Minister’s Department, the Director-General of the Post and Telegraph Department, and such other persons appointed, either personally or ex officio, as the Prime Minister from time to time thinks fit so to appoint.

(3) The Prime Minister shall himself be Chairman of the Board.

(4) The Prime Minister may appoint a Deputy-Chairman of the Board and arrange for an officer of the Public Service or any other person to be the Secretary of the Board.

(5) The members of the Board other than those holding office ex officio may resign office by notice in writing to the Secretary, and may at any time be removed by the Prime Minister by notice in writing to the member affected, or by public notice, and the Prime Minister shall indicate to the Secretary of the Board the fact of every such resignation or removal.

REGULATION 3.—POWERS AND PROCEDURE OF THE BOARD.

(1) The Board shall have complete power to administer these regulations, and any powers hereby conferred on the Controller of Censorship, Director of Publicity, or any other person shall, if and whenever the Board thinks fit, be exercisable directly by the Board, and any exercise of power by any such person may accordingly be superseded by action on the part of the Board.

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🏛️ Censorship and Publicity Emergency Regulations 1939 (continued from previous page)

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated1 September 1939
KeywordsEmergency Regulations, Censorship, Public Safety, Telegraph, Postal, Definitions, Board Structure

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