✨ Enemy Property Regulations
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 107
(iv) “Enemy company” means a company which is incorporated
in enemy territory or in or over which any enemy or any
other enemy company possesses or exercises any substantial
interest or control:
(v) “Enemy country” means the territories of and includes also
any territory for the time being in the occupation of the
military forces of the Government of the German Reich:
(vi) “Enemy property” means all property, real or personal,
which belongs to an enemy or alien enemy or in which an
enemy or alien enemy has any interest, and includes all
money owing or payable to an enemy or to any person
on behalf of an enemy or alien enemy:
(vii) “Outbreak of war” means the proclamation of the state of war
between His Majesty and the Government of the German
Reich on the 3rd day of September, 1939:
(viii) “Prisoner of war” means any person detained in New
Zealand under the order of a military authority or other-
wise detained as a prisoner of war, and for the purposes of
these regulations shall include any enemy whose arrest
has been authorized by a military authority, although he
has not yet been actually arrested.
REGULATION 2.—CUSTODIAN OF ENEMY PROPERTY.
The Public Trustee shall in his official and corporate capacity be
the Custodian of Enemy Property for the purposes of these regulations.
REGULATION 3.—NOTIFICATIONS OF ENEMY PROPERTY.
(1) Within fourteen days after the coming into force of these
regulations every person who on the coming into force of these
regulations holds, or has the possession, management, or control of,
any enemy property shall by notice in writing communicate the fact,
together with full particulars of such property, to the Custodian of
Enemy Property at the Public Trust Office at Wellington, and every
such person shall thereafter from time to time give to the Custodian
such further information relative to that property as he may require.
(2) Every person shall, within fourteen days after he begins to
hold, possess, manage, or control any enemy property, or after any
property held, possessed, managed, or controlled by him becomes
enemy property, communicate the fact by notice in writing to the
Custodian of Enemy Property at the Public Trust Office at Wellington,
together with full particulars of that property, and shall from time to
time thereafter give to the Custodian such further information relative
to that property as he may require.
(3) All notifications of enemy property under the two last preceding
clauses hereof shall be made in accordance with the Schedule hereto
and under the several headings specified in that Schedule.
(4) Every enemy shall, if so required by the Custodian of Enemy
Property, within fourteen days after being so required, give to the
Custodian such particulars as he requires as to all property of the
value of £50 or upwards, whether situated in New Zealand or elsewhere,
which belongs to that enemy or in which he is interested.
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