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Immigration Restriction Amendment Act 1908

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Section 42 of principal Act not to apply to Chinese returning to New Zealand within four years after leaving, if name registered.

Immigration Restriction Amendment Act 1908

Public Act		1908 No 230
Date of assent		6 October 1908

	Title
1	Short Title.
2	Section 42 of principal Act not to apply to Chinese returning to New Zealand within four years after leaving, if name registered.

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, 1908, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Immigration Restriction Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Section 42 of principal Act not to apply to Chinese returning to New Zealand within four years after leaving, if name registered.

(1.)

Section forty-two of the principal Act shall not apply—

(a)

To the return to New Zealand of any Chinese who, whether before or after the passing of this Act, has left or leaves New Zealand, after registering his name and thumb-print with a Collector of Customs, and who returns to New Zealand within four years after the date of such registration, and satisfies a Collector of Customs as to his identity; or

(b.)

To the return to New Zealand before the first day of January, nineteen hundred and nine, of any Chinese who has at any time theretofore been resident in New Zealand, and who satisfies a Collector of Customs as to his former residence in New Zealand.

(2.)

The Governor may from time to time by Order in Council make regulations prescribing the manner in which and the conditions on which such registration may be effected, and every registration effected while any such regulations are in force shall be effected in conformity therewith, or otherwise shall be of no effect.

Immigration Restriction Amendment Act 1908