New Zealand Army Amendment Act 1960

Public Act		1960 No 78
Date of assent		25 October 1960

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Regulations as to access to military areas

An Act to amend the New Zealand Army Act 1950

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

This Act may be cited as the New Zealand Army Amendment Act 1960, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the New Zealand Army Act 1950¹ (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Regulations as to access to military areas

(1)

Section 17 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting in subsection (1), after paragraph (d), the following paragraph:

“(dd)

Prohibiting or restricting access to any military area, being any land or water or building set apart, used, or occupied for the purposes of the Army, whether the property of the Crown or private or other property used or occupied by the Army with the consent of the owner, and making such other provisions as appear to the Governor-General to be necessary or expedient for the proper control of any such military area:”

(2)

Section 17 of the principal Act is hereby further amended by inserting, after subsection (1), the following subsection:

“(1a)

Regulations made pursuant to paragraph (dd) of subsection (1) of this section may include provisions—

“(a)

Authorising the searching of persons while they are upon or in or are entering or leaving, or about to enter or leave, any military area, both as to their persons and also as to vehicles, vessels, receptacles, or parcels belonging to or in the possession of any such person, subject to the production of the person carrying out the search of such warrant or other evidence of his authority as is prescribed in the regulations:

“(b)

Notwithstanding anything in section 102 of this Act, imposing penalties for breaches of the regulations, not exceeding imprisonment for a term of three months or a fine of one hundred pounds.”

¹*1957 Reprint, Vol. 11, p. 1

Amendment: 1959, Ño. 26

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