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years or to imprisonment with or without hard labour 
for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine, or 
to both such penal 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 trans 
action or done any act which was, at the time of such trans 
action 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 offence 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 liable 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 liable to be 
punished twice for the same offence. 
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2.—(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