Revocation of Full General Court Martial Warrant

DENIS BLUNDELL, Governor-General
To the Commander, Australian, New Zealand, and United Kingdom Force.

WHEREAS I am empowered by the Royal New Zealand Air Force Act 1950 to authorise and empower you from time to time and as occasion may require to convene General Courts-martial for the trial of any person subject to the Royal New Zealand Air Force Act 1950 who is charged with an offence for which such person may be tried by Court-martial and to confirm the findings and sentences of such Courts-martial, and also to authorise and empower you to delegate such of these powers as you may think fit to any officer under your command or jurisdiction not below the rank of field officer;

And whereas by Warrant dated the 1st day of November 1971 power and authority as aforesaid was granted to you;

And whereas owing to the formation of the New Zealand Force SOUTH EAST ASIA, the circumstances which gave rise to that Warrant no longer exist;

Now therefore I, Sir Denis Blundell the Governor-General of New Zealand, do hereby cancel and revoke with effect from the 1st day of Febrary 1974 the said Warrant dated the 1st day of November 1971 and all Warrants issued thereunder.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 31st day of January 1974.
A. J. FAULKNER, Minister of Defence.

Revocation of Full General Court Martial Warrant

DENIS BLUNDELL, Governor-General
To The Commander, Australian, New Zealand, and United Kingdom Air Component.

WHEREAS I am empowered by the Royal New Zealand Air Force Act 1950 to authorise and empower you from time to time and as occasion may require to convene General Courts-martial for the trial of any person subject to the Royal New Zealand Air Force Act 1950 who is charged with an offence for which such person may be tried by Court-martial and to confirm the findings and sentences of such Courts-martial, and also to authorise and empower you to delegate such of these powers as you may think fit to any officer under your command or jurisdiction not below the rank of field officer;

And whereas by Warrant dated the 1st day of November 1971 power and authority as aforesaid was granted to you;

And whereas owing to the formation of the New Zealand Force SOUTH EAST ASIA, the circumstances which gave rise to that Warrant no longer exist;

Now therefore I, Sir Denis Blundell the Governor-General of New Zealand, do hereby cancel and revoke with effect from the 1st day of February 1974 the said Warrant dated the 1st day of November 1971 and all Warrants issued thereunder.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 18th day of December 1973.
A. J. FAULKNER, Minister of Defence.

Revocation of Courts Martial Commission

To Commodore Domara Andrews Heap Clarke, M.V.O., D.S.C., R.A.N. Commander, Australian, New Zealand, and United Kingdom Naval Component, Malaysia/Singapore.

WHEREAS I am empowered by authority delegated to me under the Defence Act 1971, to authorise and empower you while holding the office of the Commander, Australian, New Zealand, and United Kingdom Naval Component, Malaysia/Singapore, to assemble, as often as you shall see occasion, Court-martial for the trial of such persons belonging to the New Zealand Naval Forces as are subject to the Naval Discipline Act 1957 (U.K.);

And whereas by warrant dated the 21st day of August 1973, power and authority as aforesaid was granted to you;

And whereas owing to the formation of the New Zealand Force SOUTH EAST ASIA, the circumstances which gave rise to that Warrant no longer exist;

Now therefore I, Edward Courtney Thorne, C.B.E., Chief of Naval Staff to the New Zealand Naval Forces, do hereby cancel and revoke with effect from the 1st day of August 1974 the said Warrant dated the 21st day of August 1973.

Given under my hand this 7th day of May 1974 at Wellington.
E. C. THORNE, Rear-Admiral, Chief of Naval Staff.

Order by the Chief of Naval Staff Under Section 47 of the Navy Act 1954

WHEREAS section 47 of the Navy Act 1954 provides, among other things, that certain servicemen of the Army and Air Force who are acting with a part of the Navy under such conditions as may be prescribed by orders made by the Naval Board shall, for the purposes of command and discipline and for the purposes of the provisions of the said Act relating to superior officers, be treated and have the same powers (other than powers of punishment) as servicemen of the Navy of equivalent rank;

And whereas the power of the Naval Board to issue orders in this regard is now vested in the Chief of Naval Staff;

Now therefore I, Rear-Admiral Edward Courtney Thorne, C.B.E., the Chief of Naval Staff, do hereby order that for the purposes of section 47 of the Navy Act 1954, the body of the Naval Forces which is for the time being serving as part of the New Zealand Force SOUTH EAST ASIA is acting together with the bodies of the Army and Air Force which are for the time being serving as part of the New Zealand Force SOUTH EAST ASIA;

And I declare for the avoidance of doubt that the powers referred to in section 47 of the Navy Act 1954 include the powers of arrest more particularly set out in section 45 of the Naval Discipline Act 1957 (U.K.).

Dated at Wellington this 17th day of December 1973.
E. C. THORNE, Rear-Admiral, Chief of Naval Staff.

Revocation of Appointment as a Superior Military Authority Under the New Zealand Army Act 1950

To Commander, 28 Australian, New Zealand, and United Kingdom Brigade.

WHEREAS under the provisions of the Defence Act 1971 and of the New Zealand Army Act 1950 I, Major-General Robin Hugh Ferguson Holloway, O.B.E., Chief of General Staff, am empowered to appoint any general officer or brigadier as a superior military authority for the purposes of the aforesaid Act;

And whereas on the 1st day of November 1971 you were appointed to be a superior military authority;

And whereas owing to the formation of the New Zealand Force SOUTH EAST ASIA, the circumstances which gave rise to that appointment no longer exist;

Now therefore I hereby revoke your appointment as a superior military authority for the purposes of the New Zealand Army Act 1950.

Dated at Wellington this 14th day of December 1973.
R. H. F. HOLLOWAY,
Major-General, Chief of General Staff.

Revocation of Appointment as a Superior Military Authority Under the New Zealand Army Act 1950

To Commander, Australian, New Zealand, and United Kingdom Support Group.

WHEREAS under the provisions of the Defence Act 1971 and of the New Zealand Army Act 1950 I, Major-General Robin Hugh Ferguson Holloway, O.B.E., Chief of General Staff, am empowered to appoint any general officer or brigadier as a superior military authority for the purposes of the aforesaid Act;