WAR REGULATIONS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2858, 24 August 1916, Page 6

WAR REGULATIONS

STRINGENT RULES REGARDING ' PERMITS.

The War Regulations issued on Monday last make important alterations in the regulations making it necessary for persons leaving New Zealand to be in possession of permits authorising their departure.

The Hon. G. W. Russoll'.explains that in future all females as well as males must obtain permits, and the ago under which permits are not required has been reduced from eighteen to fifteen

years. In addition to_ this extension of the regulations dealing with persons departing from tho Dominion, important new provisions, which do not, however, take effect until October 2, prohibit any. person landing ip New Zealand unless he is in possession of a passport. Passport is defined as a passporc issued by the Government of the country of which the person to whom it relates is a subject or v citizen', and which is still in force, or some other document satisfactorily establishing the nationality or identity of the person to whom it relates, to which passport or document thero is attached a photograph of the person to whom it relates.

The passport must have been issued not more than two years before the arrival in New Zealand, and in the case of a person coming from a fo oigu country it must hare been issued or vised (endorsed) by the British Amlassador or a British consul in that country. In the case of a person c< ming from any part of the British Dominions the issuo or tho vise, as the case may be, must havo been made by some public official duly authorised in that behalf.

Certain exemptions are made with regard to poisons coming to .Vow Zealand from Australia, the Cook inlands, and Samoa. Tu their case the only acquirement is the possession «;f-a wimifc to visit New Zealand granted hf ire Department of External Affairs of'tho Commonwealth, a Resident Commissioner of tho Cook Islands, or 'ho Administrator of Samoa, as dlio case may be. / A person resident in New Zealand returning to tho Dominion on a return ticket issued to him hero is also exempted.

Tho Minister of Internal. Affairs or any person authorised by him is given power to grant exemptions from the renuirements of the regulations.

Special provision is made respecting aliens being the masters or members of crews of ship's arriving in New Zealand. They are prohibited from landing unless in possession of passports within the meaning of the regulation, but the Collector of Customs at tho port in the Dominion where a ship is for tho time being inav ."rant temporary permission to land for such purposes and subject to such conditions as the Collector thinks fit. The presence among the crow or a ship of an alien not possessing a. passnorfc must be notified to the Collector of Customs, and that alien must lenvo the Dominion with the ship. Nothing in this particular rocnilntion applies to any master or member of the crew whose homo is in Now Zealand.