This Act may be cited as the League of Nations Sanctions (Enforcement in New Zealand) Act, 1935.

This Act shall come into force on a date to be appointed in that behalf by the Governor-General by a Proclamation approved in the Executive Council and published in the Gazette.

At any time after this Act has come into force in accordance with the last preceding subsection, the Governor-General may in like manner suspend its operation; and from time to time thereafter, as the exigencies of international affairs may render desirable or expedient, he may in like manner revive or suspend its operation, as the case may require.

For the purpose of enabling the Dominion of New Zealand to fulfil its obligations under Article 16 of the Covenant of the League of Nations (being obligations voluntarily accepted by the said Dominion as an original member of the League) the Governor-General may by Order in Council make all such regulations as he from time to time thinks necessary:

Provided that nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the making of regulations—

Any 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 a regulation made under this Act shall be liable on summary conviction before a Magistrate to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months or to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.

The publication in the Gazette of any Order in Council, Proclamation, regulation, notice, warrant, license, or other act of authority under this Act, shall for all purposes be deemed to be notice thereof to all persons concerned, and in any prosecution under this Act the liability of the accused shall be determined accordingly.

No regulation under this Act shall be deemed invalid because it deals with any matter already provided for by any Act in that behalf, or because of any repugnancy to any such Act.

Nothing in 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.

All regulations made under the authority of this Act shall be laid before Parliament within twenty-eight days after the making thereof if Parliament is then in session, and, if not, then within twenty-eight days after the commencement of the next ensuing session thereof.

Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, all regulations laid before Parliament in any session pursuant to the last preceding subsection shall expire immediately on the expiration of two months after they have been so laid before Parliament except so far as they are expressly validated or confirmed by an Act of Parliament. This subsection shall not apply with respect to any regulations laid before Parliament within seven days before the end of any session of Parliament, but any such regulations, unless sooner revoked, shall continue in force for two months after the commencement of the next succeeding session, and shall then expire unless in the meantime they have been expressly validated or confirmed by an Act of Parliament.