SEDITION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1647, 7 December 1916, Page 3

SEDITION.

REGULATIONS TO PREVENT IT. MANY DRASTIC CLAUSES. WHAT THE PUBLIC MUST NOT DO. A Gazette Extraordinary, published on Tuesday evening, contains the following war regulations (hailing with sedition: — 1. No person shall publish, or cause or permit to he published, or do any act with intent to publish or to cause or permit to lie published, any seditions utterance. 2. No person shall do in New' Zealand any act with intent to procure the publication elsewhere than in New Zealand of any seditions utterance. 3. In these regulations ‘“seditious utterance" means any utterance which is published with a seditions intention, or the publication of which has a seditious tendency. 4. In these regulations “seditions intentions" and ‘‘seditions tendency" mean respectively an intention or tendency—

(a ) To excite disaffection again.-l His .Majesty or the Government of the Lbiiled Kingdom, or of New Zealand, or of any other pari of His .Majesty’s Dominions; or (b) To incite, procure, or encourage violence, lawlessness, or disorder whether in New Zealand or in any part of His Majesty’s Dominions; or

(c) To incite, procure, or encourage the commission, whether in New Zealand or in any other part of His Majesty’s Dominions, of any offence which is prejudicial to the public safely in respect of (he present war; or

((1) To excite, whether in New Zoalajid or in any other part of His Majesty's Dominions, such hostility or ill will between different classes of His Majesty’s snbjeets as may endanger the public safety in respect of Hie presold war; or (e) To interfere with the recruiting, training, discipline, equipment, or administration of His Majesty’s Forces, or with the effective conduct of the military or naval preparations or operations of His Majesty or In’s Allies, whether in New Zealand or elsewhere; or

(f) To interfere with the manufacture, production, output, supply, delivery or carriage of any goods or articles required by His Majesty, whether in New Zealand or elsewhere, for any purpose in connection with the present war; or (g) To inter fere with the lading, unlading, manning, equipment, dispatch, or use of any vessel carrying or about to carry from New Zealand any of His Majesty’s Forces or any goods or merchandise belonging to or destined for or required by His Majesty, whether in New Zealand or elsewhere, for any purpose in connection with the present war; or (h) To interfere with the effective conduct of any undertaking of His Majesty which is requisite for the public safety during the present war: or

(i) To prejudice His Majesty’s relations with foreign Powers; or (j) To discourage ihe prosocution of the presen!, war to a victorious conclusion; or

(k) To excite or encourage opposition to the enforcement of administration of the laws in force for the time being-, whether in New Zealand or in any part of His Majesty’s Dominions, relative to compulsory military (raining or service during the present war, to to interfere with the proper and effective ■enforcement or administration thereof; or

(l) To interfere with the dne administration in New Zealand of criminal justice in matters relating to the present war; or (m) To incite any person or persons to refuse or fail, whether in New Zealand or elsewhere, to render service-to the Crown in any ■capacity in respect ot or for the purposes of I In' present war, or in respect of or for the purposes of any undertaking’ of His Majesty which is requisite for the public safety during that war; or (n) To excite disloyalty, whether in New Zealand or elsewhere, in respect of tin' present war.

5. In these regulations— “llis Majesty's Corces” means the military or naval forces of llu j tailed Kingdom, or of Now Zealand, or of any other of Ilia -Majestys possessions; “Utterance” includes words, writing-, pictures, or any other significant expression or representation whatever; "Publish” means to communicate either to the public or to any person or persons, and ■whether orally or otherwise howsoever. (j. Nothing- in the foregoing regulations shall make it. an offence for any person without seditious intention — (a) To sell or distribute in the ordinary course of business any newspaper printed and issued in any part of the British Dominions other than New Zealand; or (b) to publish any telegram transmitted from abroad and passed for publication by the censorship; or (c) to • publish any matter which a military .-authority has approved for publication; or (d) to publish a time report ■of the proceedings of any Court of justice or other judicial tribunal. 7. (l.)No person shall be a party to a seditious conspiracy 7 . (2.) “ Seditious conspiracy ” means' an agreement between two or more persons to carry into execution a seditious intention. 8. (a) When the Attorney-Gener-al is satisfied that any person is disaffected or disloyal, or of such a character that his presence in New .Zealand would be injurious to the

public safety, and that such person is about to arrive or land in New Zealand from parts beyond the seas, the Altorncy-Clenoral may by order signed by him prohibit that person from landing in New Zealand. Any such order may he at any lime revoked by the AttorneyGeneral. (b) If while any such order remains unrevoked the person against whom il has been made lands in New Zealand with knowledge of the fact that the order has* been made against him, lie shall be guilty of an ottenee against, these regulations, and shall be liable aeeordingly. (e) Any person who is found on shore in New Zealand at any time while an order so made against him remains nnrevoked may be arrested without warrant by any eonstable, and placed and detained on board the ship by which he arrived in New Zealand, or on board any other ship belonging to the same owner and bound for the country from which that person was brought to New Zealand, and may, pending bis removal (o such ship, be detained in such custody and in such place as the Attorney-General mav direct.

(d) If the owner or master of any ship having knowledge of the making of any such- order against any person carried to New Zealand in that ship or in any oilier ship belonging to the same owner refuses to permit that person to remain on board the ship in obedience to the order, or refuses to receive (bat person on board the ship when brought thereto in custody in accordance with these regulations, or connives at or is privy to I In; escape of that person from the ship, such owner or master shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations, and shall be liable accordingly, (e) “Owner" includes charterer.

!). (a) When the Attorney-Gen-eral, in pursuance of clause 20 of the War Regulations of 2-ll,h duly, 1910, orders any person to leave New Zealand, the Attorney-General may, by the same order, if he thinks such a course necessary for the public safety, authorise the immediate arrest and detention of that person, and thereupon any olticer may without warrant arrest that person and place him on board any vessel about, to leave New Zealand for the country from which he canto to New Zealand, and detain him on board that vessel until it: has left New Zealand; and paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) of clause 2(i of the said War Regulations shall apply to any such case in the same manner as if the order to leave New Zealand had been duly served, and default had been made in complying therewith within seven days after the date of service thereof.

(I)) W hen any person ordered to leave New Zealand has been arrested in pursuance of clause 2(5 of the said War Regulations or in pursuance of this present regulation he may, pending his removal to a ship in pursuance of those regulations, he detained in such custody and in such place as (he Attorney-General may direct.

(c) For the purposes of clause 2(5 of the said War Regulations, no person shall be deemed to be ordinarily resident in New Zealand who first becomes ordinarily resident therein after the date of these present regulations. 10. Nothing in these regulations shall be deemed to revoke or affect, any oilier AVar Regulations already in force, and all such other AVar Regulations shall remain in full force and affect according to their tenor concurrently with (he present, regulations, but so (bat no person shall be punished twice for the same offence.