Exportation of Arms Act 1901
Exportation of Arms Act 1901
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Exportation of Arms Act 1901
Public Act |
1901 No 15 |
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Date of assent |
16 October 1901 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Law relating to the Exportation of Arms, and other Military and Naval Stores.
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.
The Short Title of this Act is “The Exportation of Arms Act, 1901”
; and it shall form part of and be read together with “The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882”
(hereinafter called “the principal Act”
).
2 Power to prohibit exportation of material of war to any country.
(1.)
The Governor may, by Proclamation, from time to time prohibit the exportation to any country or place therein named of all or any of the following articles: namely, Arms, ammunition, military and naval stores, and any article which in the opinion of the Governor is capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of arms, ammunition, or military or naval stores.
(2.)
Such Proclamation may be made whenever, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient in order to prevent the articles specified therein being used against His Majesty’s subjects or forces, or against any forces engaged or which may be engaged in military or naval operations in co-operation with His Majesty’s forces.
(3.)
Without in any way limiting the nature or description of the articles which may be specified in any such Proclamation, the articles set forth in the Schedule hereto may be so specified.
3 Section 176 of the principal Act to apply.
Section one hundred and seventy-six of the principal Act shall apply to any Proclamation made under this Act so far as that section is applicable.
Schedule
Guns and arms of all kinds, and the machinery for manufacturing them.
Ammunition and explosives of all kinds, the ingredients used in their manufacture, and the machinery for manufacturing them.
Military stores of all kinds, including—
Clothing, equipments, accoutrements, harness, saddlery, implements and tools, wire, chemicals used in the manufacture of explosives.
Signalling and search-light equipment, telegraphic and electric-light plant suitable for field use, limelight apparatus, heliographs, optical instruments used in military operations.
Naval stores of all kinds, including—
Materials used in ship-construction, such as rivet-iron, angle-iron, round bars, rivets, sheet-plate iron, forgings, and armour-plates; machinery used in constructing ships and torpedo-boats; marine engines, and the component parts thereof, including screw propellers, paddle-wheels, cylinders, cranks, shafts, boilers, tubes for boilers, boiler-plates, fire-bars.
Every article whatsoever which is, can, or may become applicable for the manufacture of marine machinery.
Anchors, chain cables, wire hawsers, capstans, windlasses, steam-winches, masts, derricks, davits.
Torpedoes and their component parts, and machinery for manufacturing them.
All apparatus for projecting inflammable materials or firing torpedoes.
Steam and other boats suitable for use for warlike purposes.
Submarine cables.
Submarine mines, and apparatus appertaining to them.
Marconi apparatus.
Electrical fittings used on board ship.
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