Under the provisions of the Defence Act, 1939, His Excellency the Governor in Commission has been pleased to make the following Regulations.

The 1st day of September, 1939.

. W. J. CAREW,

INTERPRETATION AND GENERAL ..

1. For the purposes of these Regulations

The expression "alien friend" means an alien whose Sovereign or State is at peace with His Majesty, or whose Sovereign or State is in no way connected with the present state of national danger or emergency.

References to landing or embarking shall, unless the context otherwise implies, be deemed to include references to attempting to land or attempting to embark respectively.

2. (1) For the purposes of these Regulations the following ports are approved ports, that is t

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St. John's,

Port aux Basques,
Corner Brook,
Botwood,

and any other port or place in Newfoundland or Labrador or any place in the said ports outside the approved landing places specified in sub-paragraph (b) hereof is for the purposes of these Regulations a prohibited port place.

or

(2) For the purposes of these Regulations the approved landing places within the said ports shall be:

In St. John's:

Furness Withy & Co's. Pier.

Harvey & Co's. Piers Nos. 1, 2 and 3.

Marine Agencies Pier.

Railway Dock Pier.

In Port aux Basques:

Railway Pier.

In Corner Brook:

International Power and Paper Co's. Piers.

In Botwood:

Anglo-Nfld. Development Co's. Pier.

(3) The Governor in Commission may, by order, add any port to the list of approved ports. or remove any port from that list, and prescribe or alter the limits of any approved port or the approved landing places therein; and these Regulations shall thereupon have effect accordingly.

3. The following persons, that is to say

(a) any Collector of Customs thereto authorized
by the Board of Customs;

(b) any other persons appointed for that purpose
by the Board of Customs;

shall be aliens officers for the purpose of these Regulations at the various ports in Newfoundland, and shall in the exercise of their powers act under general or special instructions from the Board of Customs, and, subject to such instructions, shall have power to enter on board any vessels, and to detain and examine all persons arriving at or leaving any port in Newfoundland, and to require the production of any documents by such persons, and generally to take such steps as are sanctioned by these Regulations or as may be necessary for giving effect to these Regulations.

CONTROL OF ALIENS

Embarkation and Disembarkation

4. An alien shall not land in Newfoundland prohibited port or place:

Provided that

at a

(a) Where the Governor in Commission is satisfied
that an alien friend has arrived at a prohibit-
ed port in ignorance of the provisions of these
Regulations, or in any other circumstances en-
titling him to special consideration and may
safely be permitted to land, he may grant him
permission accordingly; and

(b) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations,
the foregoing prohibitions shall not, unless in
any particular case an aliens officer so directs,
apply to an alien friend who is the master or
a member of the crew of a vessel arriving at a
prohibited port, if whilst he is on shore hẹ

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complies with such requirements (if any) as may be imposed upon him or upon masters and seamen generally by an aliens officer at the port, and any alien friend who lands in accordance with this proviso, and if conditionally disembarked, who complies with the conditions, shall not be liable to any penalty for landing at the port in question.

5. An alien, other than an alien friend, shall not land in Newfoundland at an approved port without the permission of the Chief Commissioner of Immigration.

6. An alien arriving at an approved port may, if the Chief Commissioner of Immigration so directs, or if an aliens officer at the port is satisfied that he cannot safely be permitted to land in Newfoundland, be treated as though the port were a prohibited port.

7. An alien landing in contravention of these Regulations, and an alien arriving at any port in circumstances in which he is prohibited from landing, may, until dealt with under these Regulations, be detained in such manner as the Chief Commissioner of Immigration may direct and whilst so detained shall be deemed to be in legal custody.

8. An alien shall not land at any port in Newfoundland having in his possession—

(a) any firearms or other weapons, ammunition or explosives or chemicals;

(b) any petroleum spirit, naptha, benzole, petroleum or other imflammable liquid in quantities exceeding one gallon;

(c) any apparatus or contrivance intended for or capable of being used for signalling apparatus, either visual or otherwise;