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einer feindlichen Person, Firma oder Gesell 
schaft, oder 
b) irgendeine Art von Geschäften mit einem außer 
halb tüs Vereinigten Königreiches gelegenen 
Zweiggeschäfte einer feindlichen Bank 
als Geschäfte mit einem Feinde angesehen werden. 
Indes soll die Zahlungsannahme oder sonstige 
Behandlung eines Handelspapieres, das vor dem 
Tage dieser Verordnung bezogen ist, sofern es sonst 
nicht dem Gesetze zuwiderläuft, nicht als ein Geschäft 
angesehen werden, das im Sinne dieser Bestimmung 
später abgeschlossen ist. 
2. Die Befugnis, welche gemäß Ziffer 8 der 
Verordnung Nr. 2, betreffend den Handel mit dem 
Feinde, einem Staatssekretär oder dem Handelsamt 
für die Erteilung von Genehmigungen übertragen 
ist, kann auch von dem Vorsitzenden des Schatzamts 
ausgeübt weiden. 
3. Wenn der Gouverneur im Rate einer briti 
schen Besitzung eine Verordnung erlassen sollte, wo 
durch die Vorschriften dieser Verordnung auf die 
Handelsgeschäfte von Personen, Firmen oder Gesell 
schaften ausgedehnt werden, die in dieser Besitzung 
wohnen oder ihr Geschäft betreiben, so soll die erst 
genannte Verordnung die Wirkung haben, als ob sie 
ein Teil dieser Verordnung wäre. 
(„Nachrichten für Handel, Industrie und Landwirt 
schaft", Nr. 14 vom 24. Februar 1915.) 
The Trading with the Enemy Act, 1914. 
(4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 87). 
AnActtomake Provision -with respect 
to penalties for Trading with the 
Enemy, andother purposes connected 
therew ith. 
18 th September 1914. 
Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent 
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the 
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this 
present Parliament assembled, and by the authority 
of the same, as follows: — 
1. Penalties for trading with enemy. 
(1) Any person who during the present war trades or 
has, since the fourth day of August nineteen hundred 
and fourteen, traded with the enemy with in the 
meaning of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, 
and shall — 
(a) on conviction under the Summary Jurisdiction 
Acts, be Kable to imprisonment with or without 
hard labour for a term not exceeding twelve 
months, or to a fine not exceeding five hundred 
pounds, or to both such imprisonment and 
fine; or 
(b) on conviction on indictment, be Kable to penal 
servitude for a term not exceeding seven or less 
than three years or to imprisonment with or 
without hard labour for a term not exceeding 
two years, or to a fine, or to both such penai 
servitude or imprisonment and fine; 
and the court may in any case order that any goods 
or money, in respect of which the offence has been 
committed, be forfeited. 
(2) For the purposes of this Act a person shall 
be deemed to have traded with the enemy if he has 
entered into any transaction or done any act 
which was, at the time of such transaction or act, 
prohibited by or under any proclamation issued by 
His Majesty dealing with trading with the enemy for 
the time being in force, or which at common law or 
by Statute constitutes an oifence of trading with 
the enemy: 
Provided that any transaction or act permitted 
by or under any such proclamation shall not be 
deemed to be trading with the enemy. 
(3) Where a Company has entered into a trans 
action or has done any act which is an offence under 
this section, every director, manager, secretary, or 
other officer of the Company who is knowingly a party 
to the transaction or act shall also be deemed guilty 
of the offence. 
(4) A prosecution for an offence under this section 
shall not be instituted except by or with the consent 
of the Attorney-General: 
Provided that the person charged with such an 
offence may be arrested and a warrant for his arrest 
may be issued and executed, and such person may be 
remanded in custody or on bail notwithstanding that 
the consent of the Attorney-General to the Institution 
of the prosecution for the offence has not been ob- 
tained, but no further or other proceedings shall be 
taken until that consent has been obtained. 
(5) Where an act constitutes an offence both under 
this Act and under any other Act, or both under this 
Act and at common law, the offender shall be Kable to be 
prosecuted and punished under either this Act or such 
other Act, or under this Act or at common law, but shall 
not be Kable to be punished twice for the same offence. 
2. Power to inspect books and docu- 
ments. 
(1) If a justice of the peace is satisfied, on In 
formation on oath laid on behalf of a Secretary of 
State or the Board of Trade, that there is reasonable 
ground for suspecting that an offence under this Act 
has been or is about to be committed by any person 
firm, or Company, he may issue a warrant authorising 
any person appointed by a Secretary of State or the 
Board of Trade and named in the warrant to inspect 
all books or documents belonging to or under the 
control of that person, firm, or Company, and to re- 
quire any person able to give any Information with 
respect to the business or trade of that person, firm, 
or Company to give that information, and if accom- 
panied by a Constable to enter and search any pre- 
mises used in Connection with the business or trade 
and to seize any such books or documents as aforesaid: 
Provided that when it appears to a Secretary of 
State or the Board of Trade that the case is one of