INVISIBLE INK BANNED

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 77, 24 December 1917, Page 5

INVISIBLE INK BANNED

The, following notice is promulgated id the Gazette of Saturday last:— , "If a military or naval authority has reason to suspect that there is in any house, building, land, ship, <.r other premises any document or other thing whatsoever which may lie evidence of au offence committed or about to be committed: against any regulation made under the War Regulations Act, ISI4, or its amendments, or against ihe Military Service Act, 1016, or the iAimy Act, or which may he evidence of the .whereabouts of any offendor against any such regulation or Act, the military or naval authority, or rny officer or officers authorised by Jimij raay enter,such house, building, land,.slup, or premises, and search the sime or any part thereof, and may seize all documents or other things whatsoever found therein which may be or may be supposed to bo evidence as aforesaid, ana all documents and other things so seized shall be retained until a roilita;.v or naval authority or the Attor-ney-General authorises their return to the person entitled thereto. . "(a) In this regulation "invisible ink'' means any fluid or other substance capable of use as ink or as a substitute for ink, and not immediately, clearly, and permanently visible on beinir so used. _ "(b) In this regulation ' 'writing includes typewriting, printing, and any other 7nethod of producing a document. "(c) It shall not be lawful for any person to use invisible inlc_in_ writing, or to procure possession of invisible ink for the purpose of such use nv himself or any other person, or to sell or deliver to any other person invisible ink fa- the purpose of such use, or to manufacture invisible ink for the purpose of such use."