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These parts of the Bill have not yet hit the pages of the New Zealand press:

1.	"In this Act . . .'Communist' means a person who supports or advocates the objectives, policies, teachings, principles or practices of Communism as expounded by Marx and Lenin."
2.	"The Governor-General may, by instrument published in the Gazette, declare any body of persons to be an unlawful association" if "he is satisfied that a majority of the members, or a majority of the committee . . . were at any time after May 10, 1948, members of the Australian Communist Party" or that it "supports or advocates or supported or advocated the objectives, etc., of Communism" or that "its policy is directed or influenced by persons who were members of the A.C.P."
3.	Anyone remaining a member of an illegal organisation is liable to five years imprisonment. The onus of proof in this clause as in the last is with the accused (individual or organisation).
4.	Section 20—"An authorised person shall at all times have full and free access to, and may, if need be by force and with such assistance as is necessary, break open, enter and search, any house, premises or place in which he suspects that there is any property of, or documents or papers relating to, an unlawful association, and may search any person found in the house, premises or place, and may take possession of, remove or impound any property, books (including documents or papers) in the house, premises or place which the authorised person is satisfied belong to that association."