PUBLIC SAEETY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 144, 19 June 1940, Page 11

PUBLIC SAEETY.

NEW REGULATIONS.

SUBVERSIVE MOVEMENTS.

STRICT BAN ON MEETINGS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, Tuesday. An amendment of the Public Safety Emergency Regulations empowers the Attorney-General to declare any organisation to be subversive if he is satisfied any of its purposes, methods or activities have e subversive tendency or may be injurious to public safety or likely to lead to attempts to influence the public, the Government or any local authority or public body otherwise than by lawful and constitutional means. No Badges on yniform. Where an organisation is declared subversive, no person may summon, conduct, attend or invite any other person to attend a meeting proposed to be held for the purposes of the organisation, nor may anyone use or let any premises for the purposes of the organisation o;- display any notice or sign indicating that premises are used by it. It is also forbidden for any person to participate in the activities of, or aid, abet or encourage such organisation, or by any badge,, symbol, uniform, eg, banner or other Inieane identify himself or express approval of it.

Regulation four of the principal regulations applies to a subversive organisation. It prohibits the furnishing of money to such organisation and en/ibles the Commissioner of Police to atop a. bank account to which he suspects moneys have been paid for subversive purposes. Where an organisation i* declared subversive, payment may be made to any creditor not being an officer or member of the organisation for any debt lawfully incurred before it was declared subversive or to euch patriotic purposes within the meaning of the Patriotic Purposes Regulations, 1939, a* are approved by the Attorney-General, but otherwise shall not be made without the Attorney-General's consent. Arrest Without Warrant. The Attorney-General may, if necessary, appoint a receiver of ell money held by or on behalf of the organisation. There is a provision for arresting without warrant any pereon found committing an offence against these amending regulations end a penalty te pro vided of imprisonment not exceeding three months or a -fine not exceeding £50 for a breach of the regulations: