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Additional Provisions as to Trading with Enemy.
10. —(1) Section one of the principal Act shall apply to a
person who during the present war attempts, or directly or
indirectly offers or proposes or agrees, or has since the fourth
day of August nineteen hundred and fourteen attempted or
directly or indirectly offered or proposed or agreed, to trade
with the enemy within the meaning of that Act in like manner
as it applies to a person who so trades or has so traded.
(2) If any person without lawful authority in anywise aids
or abets any other person, whether or not such other person is
in the United Kingdom, to enter into, negotiate, or complete
any transaction or do any act which, if effected or done in
the United Kingdom by such other person, would constitute
an offence of trading with the enemy within the meaning of
the principal Act, he shall be deemed to be guilty of such an
offence.
(3) If any person without lawful authority deals, or
attempts, or offers, proposes or agrees, whether directly or
indirectly, to deal with any money or security for money or
other property which is in his hands or over which he has
any claim or control for the purpose of enabling an enemy to
obtain money or credit thereon or thereby he shall be deemed
to be guilty of the offence of trading with the enemy within
the meaning of the principal Act.
Additional Ground for Appointment of Controller-
11. —(1) In addition to the grounds on which an application
can be made to the court by the Board of Trade to appoint a
controller under section three of the principal Act, such an
application may be made in any case in which the Board think
it is expedient in the public interest that a controller should
be appointed owing to circumstances or considerations arising
out of the present war, and that section shall be construed
accordingly.
(2) Section three of the principal Act, as amended by this
section, shall extend so as to enable a controller to be appointed
of a business carried on by a person in like manner as it
applies to the appointment of a controller of a business carried
on by a firm.
Amendment of Sec. 2 of Principal Act.
12. —(1) Where, on the report of an inspector appointed to
inspect the books and documents of a person, firm or company