WAR REGULATIONS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2572, 21 September 1915, Page 6

WAR REGULATIONS

NEW LIST RESTRICTIONS ON WEAPONS Additional war regulations are published in a Gazette Extraordinary which was issued last night. They vide:—By the order of a military authority any alien who is reasonably suspected by : that military authority of being disaffected and dangorous may bo arrested by an officer or any other person and detained- in sucli place and manner as tlio military authority thinks fit, and during his pleasure, unless discharged by the Minister "of Defence. No person shall by words, writing, or otherwise incite, cncourago, advise, or advocate violence, lawlessness, or disorder, or express any seditious intention. No person' shall print-, publish, sell, distribute, have in his possession for salo or distribution, or bring or causo to bo brought or sent into New Zealand any document which incites, encourages, advises, or advocates vio- 1 lence, lawlessness, or disorder, or expresses any seditious intention.No person shall, whether as principal or agent, sell, transfer, or supply to or procure for any other person any firearm or ammunition, save ill pursuanco of a permit issued under this regulation.

No person shall, whether as principal or agent, purchase or otherwise procure any firearm or ammunition save in pursuance of a permit issued under this regulation. . No person shall bring or cause to bo brought or sent into New Zealand any firearm or ammunitioin save in pursuance of a permit issued in that behalf under this reflation by a superintendent or inspector of police. Tho Minister of Defence may from time to time, by a notice signed by him and published in the Gazette, declare that any area specified iu. that notico is an area in which the possession of firearms or ammunition'without a permit is prohibited, aud may, by a similar, notice published in the Gazette; cancel any such notice with :espec't to the wliolo or any part of tho area .so specified. Any area so'specified shall, while and so far as the notice specifying tho ,samo remains in force, be deemed to bo a prescribed area within the meaning and : for the purposes of this regulation. No person shall carry a firearm or other dangerous weapon except for some lawful, proper, and sufficient purpose, and the burden of proving the existence of such purpose shall lie upon the accused.

No person stall by tlio discharge of firearms or in. auy other manner whatever endanger the safety of any member ,of the Police Force or of tlio Defence/Forces, or of any person acting in aid of the Police Force or" of the Defence Forces. No person -without the written permission of a- Superintendent or Inspector of Police shall oil or in the vicinity of any railway, dock, wharf, - harbour, or ship have in his possession or custody any explosive substance or highly inflammable liquid in quantities exceeding the immediate requirements of his business or occupation. Any constable may search any person for any firearms, ammunition, - explosives, or dangerous weapons which may be carried by him, and may detain bim for the purposes of such search. In theso regulations the terms "firearms" and "ammunition" shall not include : (a) Shot-guns of a kind ordinarily used in New Zealand for sporting purposes; (b) ammunition of a kind ordinarily used for such shot-guns; (c) firearms or ammunition belonging 1 to or supplied by any Department of the Executive Government, and lawfully in tho possession or custody of any member, of tho Defence Forces'or of the. Police Force or any other person. The Minister of Defence may, by a notice signed by him and published in tlio. "Gazette;" declare that any highway adjoining or intersecting any camp of military training or exercise is closed for traffic except with tho consent of the military authorities. ■. So long "as any such notice remains unrevoked the highway to which it relates shall for tho purposes of the War Regulations bo deemed to be no longer a highway, but to be part of the camp which it so adioins or intersects.