“ (5) Except with the prior consent of the Attorney-General, no money held by or on behalf of a subversive organization or held for the purposes of a subversive organization shall be paid or expended for any purpose other than—

“ (a) The payment to any creditor (not being an officer or a member of the organization) of any debt lawfully incurred by or on behalf of the organization before it was declared to be a subversive organization :

“ (b) Such patriotic purpose within the meaning of the Patriotic Purposes Emergency Regulations 1939,* or such other purpose, as may from time to time be approved by the Attorney-General for the purposes of this clause, either generally or in respect of any particular organization.

“ (6) The Attorney-General may appoint a Receiver of all money held by or on behalf of a subversive organization or held for the purposes of a subversive organization, and thereupon all such moneys and all the rights, powers, and remedies of the organization or of any member or officer thereof in respect of such moneys shall be deemed to be vested in the Receiver.

“ (7) Any person found committing an offence against this regulation may be arrested without warrant.

“ (8) Every person who commits an offence against this regulation shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding £50.

“ (9) The provisions of this regulation are in addition to and not in derogation of the other provisions of these regulations.”

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

• Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/194, page 789.

The Labour Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 18th day of June, 1940.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to the Emergency Regulations Act, 1939, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby make the following regulations.

REGULATIONS.

1. These regulations may be cited as the Labour Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940.

2. If it appears to the Minister of Labour to be necessary or expedient so to do for securing the public safety, the defence of New Zealand, or the efficient prosecution of any war in which His Majesty may be engaged, or for maintaining supplies and services essential to the life of the community, the Minister by order published in the Gazette may suspend, so far as they relate to conditions of employment, the provisions of any Act, or of any regulations or orders under any Act, or of any award or industrial agreement under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925, or of any agreement under the Labour Disputes Investigation Act, 1913, or of any voluntary agreement, and the Minister by the same or any subsequent order may prescribe conditions of employment in lieu thereof.

3. Every order made by the Minister of Labour under the last preceding regulation shall apply to such industry or part thereof, or to such particular case, as may be prescribed in the order, and shall take effect from such date and upon and subject to such terms and conditions (if any) as may be so prescribed.

4. Any order made by the Minister of Labour under Regulation 2 of these regulations and any terms or conditions prescribed in any order may from time to time if the Minister thinks fit be varied, extended, added to, or revoked by the Minister by order published in the Gazette.

5. The Labour Legislation Emergency Regulations 1939* are hereby revoked, and it is hereby declared that any orders made thereunder shall continue in full force and effect as if they had been made under these regulations and accordingly, where necessary, shall be deemed to have been so made.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

• Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/167, page 735.

By Authority: E. V. PAUL, Government Printer, Wellington.