This Act may be cited as the Immigration Restriction Amendment Act, 1923, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Immigration Restriction Act, 1908.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section fourteen of the Immigration Restriction Amendment Act, 1920, nothing in Part II of that Act shall apply to any person who is a subject of His Majesty.

Section fifteen of the Immigration Restriction Amendment Act, 1920, is hereby repealed.

Save with the authority of the Minister, no person shall land in New Zealand from any place beyond the seas unless and until he has made and delivered to an officer of Customs a declaration in the prescribed form.

The last preceding subsection shall not apply—

Any person who arrives in New Zealand from any place beyond the seas as the master or a member of the crew of any vessel may thereupon, or at any time thereafter, whether before or after he has landed from that vessel, be required by an officer of Customs or of police to make and deliver to that officer a declaration in the prescribed form.

Every person commits an offence against this Act and shall be liable accordingly who,—

This section is in substitution for section three of the Undesirable Immigrants Exclusion Act, 1919, and that section and the Schedule to the said Act are hereby repealed.