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(6) Shares owned by or on behalf of an enemy or alien enemy in any company incorporated in New Zealand or carrying on business in New Zealand shall be deemed to be enemy property held by the company, and also by the attorney or manager of that company in New Zealand.

(7) Property owned jointly or in common by an enemy or alien enemy and by any person in New Zealand shall be deemed to be enemy property held by such person in New Zealand.

(8) All bank balances and other sums payable on demand shall be deemed to become or to have become due and payable at any time at which such demand might lawfully have been made if a state of war had not existed.

REGULATION 7.—PROPERTY OF BRITISH-BORN WOMEN.

(1) This regulation applies to every woman who, being a British subject by birth, has by virtue of a marriage entered into before the coming into force of these regulations become an alien enemy within the meaning of these regulations.

(2) Unless the Attorney-General by notice in writing given to the woman concerned or her agent otherwise directs, the following provisions of these regulations shall not apply to a woman to whom this regulation applies or to property which is enemy property within the meaning of these regulations by reason only of the interest of such woman therein—namely, Regulation 3, relating to notifications of enemy property; Regulation 4, relating to vesting of enemy property; and Regulation 6, relating to payments and delivery to the Custodian of Enemy Property.

(3) Within fourteen days of the coming into force of these regulations every woman to whom this regulation applies, and every person acting in a matter in which such a woman has an interest, who holds or has the possession, management, or control of any property which is enemy property within the meaning of these regulations by reason of the interest of such woman therein shall give notice in writing to the Custodian of Enemy Property at the Public Trust Office at Wellington setting out the full name and address of the woman concerned and brief details of her circumstances and property.

(4) Within fourteen days after any woman to whom this regulation applies begins to hold, possess, manage, or control any property, such woman, and also every person who is acting in a matter in which such woman has an interest or who has the possession, management, or control of any such property as aforesaid, shall give notice in writing to the Custodian of Enemy Property at the Public Trust Office at Wellington setting out the full name and address of the woman concerned and brief details of her circumstances and property.

(5) The Attorney-General may from time to time, by notice in writing given to the woman concerned or her agent, and also to the Custodian of Enemy Property, direct that all or any of the provisions of the regulations referred to in clause (2) of this regulation shall thereafter apply to such woman and to her property, and any such notice may at any time be added to, amended, or withdrawn, and the exemptions set out in clause (2) of this regulation shall as regards such woman and her property be varied according to the tenor of any notice given under this clause and for the time being in force.