This Act may be cited as the Emergency Regulations Amendment Act, 1940, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Emergency Regulations Act, 1939 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

The powers conferred on the Governor-General by the principal Act shall, notwithstanding anything in that Act, include power by Order in Council to make such emergency regulations making provision for requiring persons to place themselves, their services, and their property at the disposal of His Majesty as appear to the Governor-General to be necessary or expedient for securing the public safety, the defence of New Zealand, the maintenance of public order, or the efficient prosecution of any war in which His Majesty may be engaged, or for maintaining supplies or services essential to the life of the community.

In paragraph (e) of subsection two of section three of the principal Act, and in subsection four of that section, the expression “enactment” shall mean any enactment passed before the commencement of this Act.

The principal Act shall be deemed to be and to have always been in force in the Cook Islands and in Samoa.

Except so far as otherwise expressly provided, emergency regulations, whether made before or after the passing of this Act, shall not be in force in the Cook Islands or in Samoa.

Subject to the provisions of this section, the principal Act shall continue in force until the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and forty-one, and shall then expire.

Notwithstanding anything in the last preceding subsection, if the Governor-General, by Order in Council, declares that the emergency that was the occasion of the passing of the principal Act has come to an end, the principal Act shall expire at the end of the day on which the Order is expressed to come into operation.

The expiry of the principal Act shall not affect the operation thereof as respects things previously done or omitted to be done.