SEPT. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2329

(2) Every such application shall be in writing, in duplicate, and shall be made by delivering the same personally to the officer in charge at the police station nearest to which the applicant resides.

(3) Every such application shall be signed by the applicant in person with his usual signature, unless he is unable to write, in which case he shall, in the presence of the police officer to whom application is made, affix to the application such thumb-prints or finger-prints or other means of identification as the police officer may require.

4. The police officer to whom the application is made shall, upon receipt thereof, forward the same to a Registration Officer in that police district.

5. The Registration Officer shall file the application in his office and issue a certificate of registration in the form marked AL. 2 in the Schedule hereto, one copy of which shall be retained at his office, one copy forwarded to the Commissioner of Police, and one copy delivered to the alien on his application at the police-station where his application for registration was delivered and on his signing the certificate as therein prescribed.

6. The Commissioner of Police shall cause to be compiled a register of the names, places of abode, and such other particulars as he may deem it expedient to include, of all registered aliens, to be called the Register of Aliens, which shall be amended from time to time by correcting errors therein, by entering changes of name or abode on the part of any alien, by adding thereto the names of aliens to whom certificates of registration have been issued, and by removing therefrom the names of aliens who die, or who leave New Zealand, or who otherwise cease to be subject to the regulations.

7. (1) The Register of Aliens shall not be open as of right to inspection by any person.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of clause (1) of this regulation, the Court may in any proceedings for an offence against these regulations order or permit a certified copy of any entry in the register to be produced to the Court.

(3) Any certificate of registration shall be prima facie evidence of the registration of the person to whom such certificate relates.

(4) A copy certified by the Commissioner of Police of any entry in the register shall be prima facie evidence of entry.

(5) A certificate under the hand of the Commissioner of Police of the absence of an entry in the register shall be prima facie evidence of the facts stated in such certificate.

(6) The absence of an entry in the register relating to any person shall be prima facie evidence that no application for registration has been made by that person.

(7) Judicial notice shall be taken of the signature of the Commissioner of Police to any certificate or certified copy referred to in this regulation and of the signature of the Registration Officer to any certificate of registration.

8. Every alien who arrives in New Zealand after the coming into force of these regulations shall, before being permitted to land, make application for registration in the manner set out in Regulation 3 hereof, save that the application may be delivered to any officer of Customs to be dealt with by him as provided in Regulation 4 hereof and save that in the form of application the applicant’s intended place of abode in New Zealand shall be set out.