New Zealand Gazette – 1939 – No. 87

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✨ Passport Emergency Regulations



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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 87

(3) The Passport Regulations 1929 and clause 2 of the regulations comprised in that part of the Second Schedule to the War Regulations Continuance Act, 1920, which is numbered (16) are hereby revoked.

(4) Nothing in these regulations shall in any way limit the scope or operation of the Alien Control Emergency Regulations 1939.

REGULATION 2.—REQUIREMENT OF PASSPORT.

Except as hereinafter provided, no person to whom these regulations apply shall land in New Zealand from overseas unless he produces to the Collector of Customs a valid passport which complies with the requirements of these regulations.

REGULATION 3.—EXEMPTIONS.

(1) No passport will be required in the case of—

(a) Any person under the age of sixteen years accompanied by a parent—

(i) If the name of such person is included in a family passport; or

(ii) If such parent is exempted from the requirement of a passport under any of the following paragraphs of this clause:

(b) Any person arriving in New Zealand from the Commonwealth of Australia if such person is—

(i) A natural-born British subject; or

(ii) A British subject naturalized in New Zealand or elsewhere if in possession of naturalization papers sufficient in the opinion of the Collector of Customs to establish the fact of his naturalization; or

(iii) The wife of any person referred to in paragraphs (i) and (ii) of this subclause, or the child under the age of sixteen years of such person:

(c) Any resident of the Cook Islands or of Western Samoa arriving in New Zealand who produces to the Collector of Customs a permit to travel to New Zealand issued by the competent authority of the Cook Islands or of Western Samoa, as the case may be:

(d) Any person resident in New Zealand returning to New Zealand on a return ticket issued to him in New Zealand:

(e) Any member of the naval or military or air forces of any part of the British dominions arriving in New Zealand on duty:

(f) Any person whose home is in New Zealand being the master or a member of the crew of any vessel arriving in New Zealand.

(2) The Minister of Internal Affairs, or any person authorized by him in that behalf, may by writing under his hand grant to any person or class of persons permission to land in New Zealand without being in possession of a passport, or without being in possession of a passport which complies with all the requirements of these regulations, either at any place or at some defined place, and subject to such conditions as he thinks fit to impose.



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🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
2 September 1939
Passport, Emergency Regulations, Public Safety Conservation Act, Nationality, Identity