New Zealand Gazette – 1939 – No. 84

Page 2333

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SEPT. 4.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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ALTERATION AND DUPLICATION OF DOCUMENTS.

  1. (1) For the purpose of this regulation "document" means any
    certificate of registration of an alien or variation thereof, or license to
    work on wharves or shipping, and includes a duplicate of a document.
    (2) No person shall--
    (a) Alter or deface any document, and any document so altered or
    defaced shall be void; or
    (b) Lend or part with any license issued to him.
    (3) Upon the return of any document rendered illegible or spoilt
    by weather or otherwise or upon proof to his satisfaction that a
    document has been destroyed, stolen, or lost, a Registration Officer
    may, upon application of the person to whom the document was issued,
    and upon payment of a fee of 2s., issue a duplicate of such document.
    Every duplicate so issued shall have the word "Duplicate" written
    or printed thereon and be verified by the signature of a Registration
    Officer, and the production of a duplicate document shall be of the same
    effect as the production of the original document.

EXEMPTIONS.

  1. (1) The Minister may, by writing under his hand delivered to
    the person concerned and notified to the Commissioner of Police,
    exempt wholly or in part from the provisions of these regulations--
    (a) Any person who is both a British subject as hereinbefore defined
    and is also or at any time has been according to the laws
    of any State with which His Majesty is at war a national
    of that State; or
    (b) Any other person to whom it is in his opinion desirable in the
    national interest that such exemption should be granted.
    (2) Any such exemption may in like manner at any time be
    withdrawn.

OFFENCES.

  1. Any person who fails to comply with any of the foregoing
    requirements, or who in any application for registration or notice of
    change of abode or application for a duplicate document or in any
    communication relating to the subject-matter of these regulations
    makes any false or misleading statement, commits an offence against
    these regulations.

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.

  1. In any proceedings for an offence against these regulations the
    onus of proving that he has complied with the regulations shall lie on
    the person charged with such offence.
  2. In any proceedings for a breach of these regulations where
    nationality is in issue evidence of repute, belief, or hearsay or any
    other evidence shall be admissible in proof of nationality, whether
    such evidence would otherwise be legally admissible or not.
  3. Section 50 of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, shall have
    no application to a prosecution for an offence against these regulations.


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