IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION ACT, 1908 (REGULATIONS MADE BY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL UNDER THE).

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1914 Session I, D-09a

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1914. NEW ZEALAND

IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION ACT, 1908 (REGULATIONS MADE BY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL UNDER THE).

Laid on the Table of both Houses of the General Assembly pursuant to the Immigration Restriction Act, 1908.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION ACTS.

Liverpool, Governor. Order in Council. At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of January, 1914. Present : The Right Honourable W. F. Massey presiding in Council. In pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority conferred on him by the Immigration Restriction Act, 1908, and the amendments thereof, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the regulations made under the said Acts on the thirteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and published in the Gazette on the twenty-third day of March, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and doth hereby make the following regulations in lieu (hereof : — REGULATIONS. 1. These regulations shall apply to bona fide merchants and tourists, including Chinese, who cannot comply with the provisions of the Immigration Restriction Act, or to Chinese merchants and tourists who, although able to comply with such provisions, do not wish to pay poll-tax. 2. Certificates in the form set forth in the schedule hereto, signed by the Collector of Customs at the port of issue, will be issued to bona fide merchants and tourists who can produce passports issued by the Governments of their respective countries and viseed by the British Consul in those countries or by any other duly authorized British authority: Provided that no certificate shall be issued to any person debarred from landing by paragraphs (b), (c), or (d) of section 14 of the Immigration Restriction Act, 1908 : Provided also that in any case where, in the opinion of the Minister of Customs, there are special circumstances, he may authorize the issue of a certificate without the production of a passport upon a bond given for .£lOO, with security satisfactory to the Collector, that the person named therein shall leave New Zealand upon the expiry of a period not exceeding six months. 3. (1.) Merchants or tourists coming under these regulations may land and remain in New Zealand for a period not exceeding six months. (2.) Such persons shall not again he granted a certificate should they return to New Zealand before the expiry of five years from the date of their departure upon the preceding visit, except on such special conditions as may be prescribed by the Minister. 4. The Minister may in cases of extreme urgency extend the certificate of any merchant or tourist for such time and subject to such conditions as he thinks fit. 5. (1.) Every person applying to the Collector of Ctistoms for a certificate shall provide two photographs of himself taken within one year of such application. One of the photographs shall be securely attached to the certificate issued to the applicant, and the other to a duplicate certificate to be filed by the Collector. (2.) Ihe applicant shall also deposit a sum of ,£lO with the Collector as security that he will report upon departure from New Zealand, and that sum shall be returned to him by the Collector at the port of departure upon identification and upon complying with these regulations.

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(3.) The amount deposited on account of any person who departs without being ideirtified or who remains in New Zealand beyond the time permitted by his certificate, shall be forfeited atld from New Zealand the holder of a certificate shall personally deliver up the same to the Collector of Customs at the port of departure 7. Certificates delivered up at the port of departure shall be forwarded to the Collector at the port of issue, to be filed with the duplicate. „,. 8 Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, any prohibited immigrant or Chinese arriving at a New Zealand port en route to some place beyond New Zealand may be permitted to land for a period not exceeding twenty-one days : provided that a bond with security satisfactory to the Collector of Custom,, is given that the person named therein shall report himself to the Collector upon departure from New Zealand within the time specified. Such bond shall be in the following amounts : — (a.) In the case of Chinese, £200. (b.) In the case of all other prohibited persons, £100.

SCHEDULE. No. FoKM of Certificate for a Merchant or Tourist. (To be delivered up to the Collector of Customs at the port of departure from Neiv Zealand.) This certificate is issued to , a native of . who arrived in New Zealand by the » from , on the day of , 19 • Title or official rank, if any : Age : years. Height : feet inches. Physical peculiarities : Occupation or profession : When and where pursued : Last place of residence: . . -, [Signature of applicant if able to write.\ The person above named and described, whose photograph is attached hereto, is entitled to remain in New Zealand until the day of , 19 Collector of Customs. I hereby certify that the above-named person departed from the Dominion of New Zealand on the day of ,19 , per " ," for Collector of Customs, Port of [See back hereof.'] [To be printed on back of form.] Subsection (2) of Section 5 of the Immigration Rbbtriotios Amendment Act, 1910. "With respect to every person who lands in New Zealand under any such regulations the provisions of the principal Act shall not apply so long as he faithfully observes the conditions prelcr bed bv those regulations or such of them as are applicable to him; but if he does not so observe the prescribed conditions he shall be deemed to have unlawfully landed in New Zealand. J. F. Andrews, Clerk of the Executive Council.

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