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| Public Act | 1946 No 7 |
| Date of assent | 16 September 1946 |
This Act is administered in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
An Act to confer on the Governor-General in Council power to make regulations to enable New Zealand to fulfil the obligations undertaken by it under Article 41 of the Charter of the United Nations
WHEREAS New Zealand is a member of the United Nations and as such is bound by the Charter of the United Nations signed at San Francisco on the 26th day of June 1945: And whereas Article 41 of the Charter is in the following terms:
“Article 41
“The Security Council may decide what measures not involving the use of armed force are to be employed to give effect to its decisions, and it may call upon the members of the United Nations to apply such measures. These may include complete or partial interruption of economic relations and of rail, sea, air, postal, telegraphic, radio, and other means of communication, and the severance of diplomatic relations”:
And whereas it is desirable that provision should be made to enable New Zealand to fulfil its obligations under the said Article.
This Act may be cited as the United Nations Act 1946.
(1) If, under Article 41 of the Charter of the United Nations, the Security Council of the United Nations calls upon Her Majesty's Government in New Zealand to apply any measures to give effect to any decision of that Council, the Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make all such regulations as appear to him to be necessary or expedient for enabling those measures to be effectively applied.
(2) No regulation made under this Act shall be deemed to be invalid because it deals with any matter already provided for by any Act, or because of any repugnancy to any Act.
(3) All regulations made under this Act shall be laid before Parliament as soon as may be after they are made.
(1) Every person who commits, or attempts to commit, or does any act with intent to commit, or counsels, procures, aids, abets, or incites any other person to commit, or conspires with any other person (whether in New Zealand or elsewhere) to commit any offence against any regulations made under this Act shall be liable on summary conviction, in the case of an individual, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to a fine not exceeding $10,000, or, in the case of a company or other corporation, to a fine not exceeding $100,000.
(2) The publication in the Gazette or in accordance with the Regulations Act 1936 of any regulations made under this Act or of any Order in Council, Proclamation, order, notice, warrant, licence, or other act of authority under this Act or under any such regulations shall for all purposes be deemed to be notice thereof to all persons concerned, and in any prosecution the liability of the accused shall be determined accordingly.
(3) Nothing in this Act or in any regulations made under this Act shall be so construed or shall so operate as to take away or restrict the liability of any person for any offence punishable independently of this Act, but no person shall be punished twice for the same offence.
Subsection (1) was amended by section 2 United Nations Amendment Act 1990 (1990 No 124) by substituting the expressions “$10,000”
and “$100,000”
for the expressions “$200”
and “$2,000”
respectively.
(1) This Act shall be in force in the Cook Islands and, to the extent to which Her Majesty has jurisdiction therein, in every other territory for the time being administered by Her Majesty's Government in New Zealand.
(2) Except so far as otherwise expressly provided, regulations made under this Act shall not be in force in the Cook Islands or in any such territory as aforesaid.
In subsection (1) the words “and in Western Samoa”
were omitted by section 9 of the Western Samoa Act 1961.
In subsection (2) the words “or in Western Samoa”
were omitted by section 9 of the Western Samoa Act 1961.
The League of Nations Sanctions (Enforcement in New Zealand) Act 1935 and the League of Nations Sanctions Regulations Confirmation Act 1936 are hereby repealed.