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einer  feindlichen  Person,  Firma  oder  Gesellschaft, ­
  oder
b)  irgendeine  Art  von  Geschäften  mit  einem  außerhalb ­
  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  britischen ­
  Besitzung  eine  Verordnung  erlassen  sollte,  wodurch ­
  die  Vorschriften  dieser  Verordnung  auf  die
Handelsgeschäfte  von  Personen,  Firmen  oder  Gesellschaften ­
  ausgedehnt  werden,  die  in  dieser  Besitzung
wohnen  oder  ihr  Geschäft  betreiben,  so  soll  die  erstgenannte ­
  Verordnung  die  Wirkung  haben,  als  ob  sie
ein  Teil  dieser  Verordnung  wäre.
(„Nachrichten  für  Handel,  Industrie  und  Landwirtschaft", ­
  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  transaction ­
  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  obtained,
  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  documents.

(1)  If  a  justice  of  the  peace  is  satisfied,  on  Information ­
  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  personfirm, ­
  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  require
  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  accompanied
  by  a  Constable  to  enter  and  search  any  premises
  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