✨ Proclamation on Trading with the Enemy
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 77
person resident, carrying on business, or being therein: Nor to permit any British ship to leave for, enter, or communicate with any port or place in the said Empire: Nor to make or enter into any new marine, life, fire, or other policy or contract of insurance with or for the benefit of any person resident, carrying on business, or being in the said Empire, nor under any existing policy or contract of insurance to make any payment to or for the benefit of any such person in respect of any loss due to the belligerent action of His Majesty’s Forces or of those of any ally of His Majesty: Nor to enter into any new commercial, financial, or other contract or obligation with or for the benefit of any person resident, carrying on business, or being in the said Empire: And we do hereby further warn all persons that whoever in contravention of the law shall commit, aid, or abet any of the aforesaid acts will be liable to such penalties as the law provides:
And We hereby declare that any transactions to, with, or for the benefit of any person resident, carrying on business, or being in the said Empire which are not treasonable and are not for the time being expressly prohibited by Us either by virtue of this Proclamation or otherwise, and which but for the existence of the state of war aforesaid would be lawful, are hereby permitted:
And We hereby declare that the expression “person” in this Proclamation shall include any body of persons corporate or unincorporate, and that where any person has or had an interest in houses or branches of business in some other country as well as in Our dominions, or in the said Empire (as the case may be), this Proclamation shall not apply to the trading or commercial intercourse carried on by such persons solely from or by such houses or branches of business in such other country.
Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this fifth day of August, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and in the fifth year of Our reign.
GOD SAVE THE KING!
LIVERPOOL, Governor.
Government House,
Wellington, 7th August, 1914.
By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.
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NZ Gazette 1914, No 77
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NZ Gazette 1914, No 77
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Proclamation setting forth the Law and Policy with regard to Trading with the Enemy
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🏛️ Governance & Central Administration7 August 1914
Proclamation, Trading with the Enemy, War, German Empire, Commercial Intercourse
- Liverpool, Governor
- John Mackay, Government Printer