Royal Commission and Broadcasting Directive




3676
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 130

any person connected with New Zealand assisted Terrence John Clark by the provision of banking, financial, or legal services or by procuring the provision of such services:

(c) If assistance so provided involved the provision of banking, financial, or legal services, what services were provided:

(d) If the assistance was other than the provision of banking, financial, or legal services, what was the nature of it:

(e) Whether any person connected with New Zealand has or has had in his possession, custody, or control—

(i) Real or personal property of Terrence John Clark purchased with money obtained from illegal activities; or

(ii) Real or personal property received, whether directly or indirectly, from Terrence John Clark; or

(iii) Real or personal property into which property of Terrence John Clark has been converted or for which property of Terrence John Clark has been exchanged; or

(iv) Real or personal property obtained by means of money received, whether directly or indirectly, from Terrence John Clark:

AND WE DECLARE that, in this Our Commission,—

(f) The expression “illegal activity” means an activity of Terrence John Clark, or a person associated with him, involving contravention of laws of the Commonwealth of Australia or of any of the States of New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland, including, in particular, laws relating to the importation, exportation, or possession of drugs; and

(g) The expression “person connected with New Zealand” means—

(i) A resident or citizen of New Zealand; or

(ii) A body corporate that has at any time had an office or place of business in New Zealand, or an unincorporated body any of whose members has at any time been a resident or citizen of New Zealand:

And, in the course of the inquiry, you may have regard to evidence obtained by you in the course of your sittings in Australia pursuant to the powers conferred on you by the said Letters Patent issued to you by the Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia and by the Governors of the States of New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland:

And for the better enabling you to carry these presents into effect you are hereby authorised and empowered to make and conduct any inquiry or investigation under these presents in such manner and at such time and place as you think expedient, with power to adjourn from time to time and from place to place as you think fit, and so that these presents shall continue in force and any such inquiry may at any time and place be resumed although not regularly adjourned from time to time or from place to place:

And you are hereby empowered to exclude the public from any hearing at which evidence is taken or at which submissions are made in relation to the evidence; but this power does not limit any of your other powers to hear proceedings in private or to exclude any person from any of your proceedings:

And you are hereby strictly charged and directed that you shall not at any time publish, save to His Excellency the Governor-General, in pursuance of these presents or by His Excellency’s direction, and save to His Excellency the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, and to their Excellencies the Governors of the States of New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland, the contents of any report so made or to be made by you, or any evidence or information obtained by you in the exercise of the powers hereby conferred on you, except such evidence or information as is received in the course of a sitting open to the public:

And We do further ordain that you have liberty to report your proceedings and findings under this Our Commission from time to time as you shall judge it expedient to do so:

And, using all due diligence, you are required to report to His Excellency the Governor-General in writing under your hand, not later than the 31st day of March 1983, your findings and opinions on the matters aforesaid, together with such recommendations as you think fit to make in respect thereof:

And, lastly, it is hereby declared that these presents are issued under the authority of the Letters Patent of His Late Majesty King George the Fifth, dated the 11th day of May 1917, and under the authority of and subject to the provisions of the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908, and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand.

In Witness whereof We have caused this Our Commission to be issued and the Seal of New Zealand to be hereunto affixed at Wellington this 3rd day of November 1982.

Witness The Honourable Sir David Stuart Beattie, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Queen’s Service Order, one of Her Majesty’s Counsel learned in the law, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over New Zealand.

L.S.

DAVID BEATTIE, Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command—

R. D. MULDOON, Prime Minister.

Approved in Council—

C. J. HILL, Acting for Clerk of the Executive Council.


Direction to Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand in Connection With Availability of Particulars of Programmes

To the Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand

PURSUANT to section 30A (2) of the Broadcasting Act 1976 (as enacted by section 6 (1) of the Broadcasting Amendment Act 1982), and for the purpose of ensuring that particulars of programmes are widely advertised and publicised to members of the public within New Zealand (including members of the public who do not purchase the New Zealand Listener), I, Ian John Sherrard, the Minister of Broadcasting, hereby direct—

(a) That, subject to the provisions of this direction including, in particular, those requiring the entering into of a contract, you are required—

(i) To make particulars of programmes (other than advertising programmes) intended to be broadcast by you from a radio station or television station available, before those programmes are broadcast, to any publisher; and

(ii) To consent under section 30A (1) of the Broadcasting Act 1976 to the publication by any publisher of particulars of programmes (other than advertising programmes) intended to be broadcast by you; and

(iii) To consent to any publication that takes place pursuant to subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph taking place before the broadcasting of the relevant programmes:

(b) That the particulars required to be made available pursuant to paragraph (a) of this direction shall comprise, in respect of each programme,—

(i) Its title:

(ii) The broadcasting station from which it is intended to be broadcast:

(iii) Its scheduled time of broadcast:

(iv) Except where contractual obligations prevent you from advertising a programme in advance, both a brief synopsis of the programme’s contents and cast lists of the main performers and actors who appear or are heard in the programme:

Provided that subparagraph (iv) of this paragraph shall not apply in respect of a news programme or a current affairs programme:

(c) That the particulars made available to any publisher pursuant to paragraph (a) of this direction shall be available to that publisher at Broadcasting House in Wellington on the day on which those particulars are made available to the New Zealand Listener;



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⚖️ Royal Commission to Inquire Into and Report Upon Certain Matters Related to Drug Trafficking (continued from previous page)

⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
3 November 1982
Royal Commission, Drug Trafficking, Inquiry, Terrence John Clark, Money Transfer, Illegal Activities, New Zealand Connections
  • Terrence John Clark, Subject of inquiry

  • The Honourable Sir David Stuart Beattie, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Queen’s Service Order, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over New Zealand
  • R. D. Muldoon, Prime Minister
  • C. J. Hill, Acting for Clerk of the Executive Council

🏭 Direction to Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand Regarding Programme Particulars

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
Broadcasting, Programme Particulars, Advertising, Broadcasting Act 1976, Broadcasting Amendment Act 1982
  • Ian John Sherrard, Minister of Broadcasting