Immigration Restriction Amendment Act 1923
Immigration Restriction Amendment Act 1923
Immigration Restriction Amendment Act 1923
Immigration Restriction Amendment Act 1923
Public Act |
1923 No 11 |
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Date of assent |
20 August 1923 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Immigration Restriction Act, 1908.
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Short Title.
This Act may be cited as the Immigration Restriction Amendment Act, 1923, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Immigration Restriction Act, 1908.
2 British subjects may enter New Zealand without taking oath of allegiance.
(1.)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section fourteen of the Immigration Restriction Amendment Act, 1920, nothing in Part II of that Act shall apply to any person who is a subject of His Majesty.
Repeal.
(2.)
Section fifteen of the Immigration Restriction Amendment Act, 1920, is hereby repealed.
3 Declarations required from persons arriving in New Zealand.
(1.)
Save with the authority of the Minister, no person shall land in New Zealand from any place beyond the seas unless and until he has made and delivered to an officer of Customs a declaration in the prescribed form.
Exemptions.
(2.)
The last preceding subsection shall not apply—
(a.)
To a child under the age of fifteen years; or
(b.)
To a person arriving in New Zealand as the master or a member of the crew of the vessel in which he arrives.
(3.)
Any person who arrives in New Zealand from any place beyond the seas as the master or a member of the crew of any vessel may thereupon, or at any time thereafter, whether before or after he has landed from that vessel, be required by an officer of Customs or of police to make and deliver to that officer a declaration in the prescribed form.
(4.)
Every person commits an offence against this Act and shall be liable accordingly who,—
(a.)
Being required by this section to make and deliver a declaration before landing in New Zealand, lands in New Zealand without having made and delivered such declaration; or
(b.)
Being required by an officer of Customs or of police to make and deliver a declaration pursuant to this section, refuses or fails to make and deliver the same accordingly; or
(c.)
Makes any declaration under this section which is in any respect wilfully false or misleading.
Consequential repeals.
(5.)
This section is in substitution for section three of the Undesirable Immigrants Exclusion Act, 1919, and that section and the Schedule to the said Act are hereby repealed.