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Aliens Amendment Act 1965

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Short Title and commencement

Administration of principal Act

Schedule Amendments to Aliens Act 1948

Aliens Amendment Act 1965

Public Act		1965 No 71
Date of assent		27 October 1965

	Title
1	Short Title and commencement
2	Administration of principal Act
	Schedule Amendments to Aliens Act 1948
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Aliens Act 1948

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 and commencement

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Aliens Amendment Act 1965, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Aliens Act 1948 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(2)

This Act shall come into force on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and sixty-six.

2 Administration of principal Act

(1)

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 2, the following section:

“2a.

Subject to the control of the Minister, the Secretary for Internal Affairs shall be charged with the general administration of this Act.”

(2)

The principal Act (as amended by section 2 of the Aliens Amendment Act 1957) is hereby further amended in the manner indicated in the Schedule to this Act.

(3)

The Aliens Amendment Act 1957 is hereby repealed.

Schedule Amendments to Aliens Act 1948

Section 2(2)

Section Amended	Amendment
Section 2	By inserting, after the definition of the terms “British subject”, “British protected person”, and “Irish citizen”, the following definition: “‘Local authority’ means a City Council, Borough Council, Town Council, County Council, or Road Board:”.
	By repealing the definition of the term “Minister”, and substituting the following definition: “‘Minister’ means the Minister of Internal Affairs:”.
	By repealing the definition of the term “Registrar-General”.
	By adding the following definition: “‘Secretary’ means the Secretary for Internal Affairs.”
Section 7	By repealing this section, and substituting the following section: “7. Applications for registration “(1) Every application for registration as an alien shall be in writing, in duplicate, in a form to be provided by the Minister for the purpose, and shall be made by delivering it personally to any office of the Department of Internal Affairs or to the office of the local authority in whose district the applicant resides, and the Clerk of that local authority shall forward the application to the Secretary: “Provided that a local authority may accept an application delivered personally at its office by an applicant who does not reside in its district. “(2) Every application for registration as an alien shall be signed by the applicant with his usual signature, unless he is unable to write, in which case he shall, in the presence of a person employed in the office at which, pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, the application is delivered, make his mark, and that person shall sign his name on the application form and add the words ‘witness for person unable to write’. “(3) Every application for registration shall be accompanied by such photographs and other means of identification as may be prescribed or as may be required by the Secretary.”
Section 8	By repealing this section, and substituting the following section: “8. Certificate of registration The Secretary, upon receipt of an application for registration as an alien, shall issue to the applicant a certificate of registration in a form to be provided by the Minister for the purpose.”
Section 9	By omitting from subsection (1) the words “The Registrar-General”, and substituting the words “The Secretary”.
Section 10	By omitting from subsection (3) the words “the Registrar-General”, and substituting the words “the Secretary or some other officer of the Department of Internal Affairs authorised in that behalf by the Secretary in writing”.
	By omitting from subsection (4) the words “the Registrar-General”, and substituting the words “the Secretary or other officer of the Department of Internal Affairs authorised as aforesaid”.
	By omitting from subsection (6) and also from subsection (7) the words “the Registrar-General”, and substituting in each case the words “the Secretary or other officer of the Department of Internal Affairs”.
Section 11	By omitting from subsection (1) the words “the Registrar of the Magistrate’s Court nearest to his or her place of abode”, and substituting the words “the Secretary or some other officer of the Department of Internal Affairs authorised by the Secretary in writing to receive it, or to the Clerk of the local authority in whose district the alien resides, and the Clerk of that local authority shall forward the notification to the Secretary”.
	By omitting from subsection (2) the words “the Registrar of the Magistrate’s Court nearest to his new place of abode”, and substituting the words “the Secretary or some other officer of the Department of Internal Affairs authorised by the Secretary in writing to receive it, or to the Clerk of the local authority in whose district his new place of abode is situated, and the Clerk of the local authority shall forward the notification to the Secretary”.
	By omitting from subsection (3) the words “the Registrar of the Magistrate’s Court nearest to his place of abode”, and substituting the words “the Secretary or some other officer of the Department of Internal Affairs authorised by the Secretary to receive it, or to the Clerk of the local authority in whose district the alien resides, and the Clerk of the local authority shall forward the notification to the Secretary”.
Section 12	By omitting from subsection (1) and also from subsection (2) the words “by the Registrar of the Magistrate’s Court nearest to his place of abode or”, and substituting in each case the words “by the Secretary or some other officer of the Department of Internal Affairs authorised in that behalf by the Secretary in writing or”.
Section 13	By omitting from subsection (4) the words “the Registrar of the Magistrate’s Court nearest to his place of abode”, and substituting the words “the Secretary”.
Section 13	By omitting from subsection (5) the words “the Registrar of the Magistrate’s Court nearest to the place of abode of the person to whom the document was issued or other officer authorised by the Registrar in that behalf”, and substituting the words “the Secretary”.

This Act is administered in the Department of Internal Affairs.

Aliens Amendment Act 1965