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CHECK SUBVERSION SEIZURE OF PRESSES STOPPING PUBLICATIONS CONTROL OF INDIVIDUALS (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Power was taken yesterday under the Censorship and Publicity Regulations 1939 Amendment No.- 2 to suppress subversion in the form of the printed word. The Attorney General is empowered to order the seizure of any printing press which has been used for the printing of any subversive statement if he has reason to suspect that any further subversive statement may be produced. The amended regulation also empowers the Attorney-General to order any periodical to cease publication if it has published any subversive statement and he has reason to suspect that it will publish further subversive statements. The regulation provides that “the periodical shall be deemed to preserve the same identity through succeeding issues thereof so long as it continues to have the same proprietor or the same editor or same printer or the same publisher, notwithstanding changes in any of the other persons concerned in these capacities and notwithstanding any change in the title, price, format, name, intervals of publication or place of publication and, accordingly, any order or notice under this regulation shall continue to have effect notwithstanding any such change as aforesaid.” Further power is given to the At-torney-General so that where he is satisfied that any person has published or been concerned in the publication of any subversive‘statements in any periodical, and he has reason to suspect a repetition of the offence, he may order that person not to publish or be concerned in publishing any periodical in New Zealand. Any person acting in contravention of the order made under the amended regulation commits an offence against the principal regulations. Any order made under the new regulations may at any time be varied or revoked, and any person affected by the order may appeal to a judge of the Supreme Court whose decision shall be final,”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20260, 30 May 1940, Page 6
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