"Owner" includes any charterer of a ship, and also includes
any representative in New Zealand of an owner or charterer
who is outside New Zealand:
"Port" means a port of entry under the Customs Act, 1913:
"Ship" means any kind of vessel used in navigation, not
propelled by oars only:
"Transport" means any ship for the time being declared by
the Minister of Defence under clause (3) of this regulation
to be a transport for the purposes of these regulations:
"Wharf" includes any wharf, quay, pier, jetty, or other place
used or capable of being used for the loading or unloading
of ships or for the storage of cargo immediately prior to
loading on a ship or subsequent to unloading and prior to
delivery from the wharf; and also includes any place
belonging to or in the possession of or under the control
of a Harbour Board; and also includes any railway or
public highway so far as it intersects or is contiguous to
or runs on any such wharf, quay, pier, jetty, or other place
as aforesaid.
(3) The Minister of Defence may at any time, by writing under
his hand, declare any ship, whether it is employed in carrying troops
or not, to be a transport for the purposes of these regulations. Any
declaration under this clause may be at any time in like manner
amended or revoked.

REGULATION 2.—SHIPS' GUARDS.

(1) At all times when any ship is moored alongside any wharf
or is in any harbour in New Zealand the owner and the master of the
ship shall station and maintain a sufficient guard on each gangway
by which the ship can be entered.

(2) At all times when any ship is engaged in receiving or
discharging cargo, stores, or baggage in New Zealand the owner and
the master of the ship shall station and maintain thereon a sufficient
guard charged with the duty of superintending the receipt, stowage,
and discharge of the cargo, stores, or baggage, and of using due care
for the protection of the ship and its cargo, stores, and baggage from
all attempts against the safety thereof.

(3) Any naval authority may from time to time give instructions
to the owner or the master of any ship as to the nature of the guard
or guards to be maintained under this regulation and as to the duties
with which any such guard is to be charged, and it shall be the duty
of the owner and the master to obey all such instructions.

(4) Subject to the instructions of any naval authority, any guard
maintained on any ship under this regulation—
(a) May be armed, and may fire upon or otherwise attack any
person who, by day or night, in disregard of a warning
received from the guard, approaches, enters, or leaves, or
attempts to approach, enter, or leave, the ship:
(b) May arrest without warrant any person who commits or is
reasonably suspected of having committed or of being
about to commit an offence against these regulations.

REGULATION 3.—PERMITS TO BOARD SHIPS.

(1) No person shall enter on board any ship while it is moored
alongside any wharf or is in any harbour in New Zealand except
pursuant to a permit for the time being in force under these
regulations.

(2) Clause (1) of this regulation shall not apply to any person who
belongs to any of the following classes and who produces such
evidence thereof as may from time to time be prescribed by the
Minister of Defence in the case of transports or by the Minister in
Charge of the Police Department in any other case or required by
any guard, namely:—
(a) Constables and officers of Customs who enter any ship on
duty:
(b) Members of His Majesty's Naval Forces who enter any ship
on duty:
(c) Persons employed by the harbour authorities who enter any
ship on duty:
(d) Persons employed in connection with the loading or unloading
of cargo who enter any ship on duty:
(e) Members of the crew of any ship who enter that ship:
(f) Persons who have engaged a passage in any ship entering that
ship:
(g) Members of His Majesty's Military Forces who enter any
transport on duty: