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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.