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The court shall have power to dirrect how and by whom the 
costs of any proceedings under this section, and the remunera 
tion, charges, and expenses of the controller, shall be borne, 
and shall have power, if it thinks fit, to charge such costs, 
charges, and expenses on the property of the firm or company 
in such order of priority, in relation to any existing charges 
thereon, as it thinks fit. 
Short Title and Construction. 
4.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Trading with the 
Enemy Act, 1914. 
(2) In this Act the expression “ Attorney-General ” means 
the Attorney or Solicitor-General for England, and as respects 
Scotland means the Lord Advocate, and as respects Ireland 
means the Attorney or Solicitor-General for Ireland. 
(3) In the application of this Act to Scotland the Secretary 
for Scotland shall be substituted for a Secretary of State, and 
the Court of Session shall be substituted for the High Court ; 
the court exercising summary jurisdiction shall be the sheriff 
court; references to a justice of the peace shall include refer 
ences to the sheriff and to a burgh magistrate ; and references 
to a receiver and manager shall be construed as references to 
a judicial factor. 
(4) In the application of this Act to Ireland, the Lord 
Lieutenant shall be substituted for a Secretary of State. 
(5) Anything authorised under this Act to be done by the 
Board of Trade may be done by the President or a Secretary 
or Assistant Secretary of the Board, or any person authorised in 
that behalf by the President of the Board. 
Trading with the Enemy Amendment Act, 1914. 
An Act to amend the Trading with the Enemy Act, 1914, 
and for purposes connected therewith. 
[27th November 1914.] 
Whereas it is expedient to make further provision for 
preventing the payment of money to persons and bodies of 
Persons resident or carrying on business in any country with 
"hich His Majesty is for the time being at war (which persons 
and bodies of persons are hereinafter referred to as “ enemies ”),