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1914. NEW ZEALAND.

WIRELESS-TELEGRAPH APPARATUS (REGULATIONS FOR CONTROL OF SHIPS CARRYING).

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly in accordance with the. Provisions of Section 183 of the, Post and Telegraph Act, 1908.

REGULATIONS FOR CONTROL OF SHIPS CARRYING WIRELESS-TELEGRAX J H APPARATUS WHILE WITHIN TERRITORIAL WATERS OF NEW ZbULANi. Liverpool. Governor. Order in Council. At the Government House at Wellington, this thirteenth day of July, 1914. Present : His Excellency the Governor in Council. Whereas by section nine of the Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, 1913 (hereinafter termed " the said Act"), it is provided that the Governor may from time to time by Order in Council make such regulations as he thinks proper governing the use of wireless-telegraph apparatus on merchant ships, whether foreign ships or British ships not registered in New Zealand, while within the territorial waters of New Zealand, and that such regulations may provide for the detention of any merchant ship on which a breach of the regulations has been made pending the institution and determination of proceedings iii respect of such breach and the recovery of any fine imposed in respect thereof : Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations; and doth hereby order that such regulations shall have effect on and from the date of publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette, Regulations. 1. Is these regulations, inconsistent with the context, — » " Territorial waters of New Zealand " means and includes all tidal waters included within the Dominion of New Zealand, and all parts of the open sea within one marine league of the coasts of xhat Dominion measured from low-water mark : " Minister of Telegraphs " means the Minister of Telegraphs for the time being : " Wireless telegraphy " has the same meaning as in section 162 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 : "Telegraph" has the same meaning as in section 119 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 : " Naval signalling " means signalling by means of any system of wireless telegraphy between two or more ships of His Majesty's Navy, between ships of His Majesty's Navy and naval stations, or between a ship of His Majesty's Navy or a naval station and any other wireless-telegraph station, whether a coast, station or a ship station : " The Admiralty " means the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland : " Coast station " means a wireless-telegraph station which is established on land or on board a ship permanently moored, and which is open for the service of correspondence between the land and ships at sea: " Ship station " means a wireless-telegraph station established on board a ship which is not permanently moored.