✨ Enemy Trading Emergency Regulations
(g) Directly or indirectly to supply to or for the use or benefit of, or obtain from, an enemy country or an enemy trader any goods, wares, or merchandise, or directly or indirectly to supply to or for the use or benefit of, or obtain from any person any goods, wares, or merchandise for or by way of transmission to or from an enemy country or any enemy trader, or directly or indirectly to trade in or carry any goods, wares, or merchandise destined for or coming from an enemy country or an enemy trader.
(h) To permit any British ship to leave for, enter, or communicate with any port or place in an enemy country:
(i) To enter into any commercial, financial, or other contract or obligation with or for the benefit of an enemy trader.
(2) Any person who does or attempts to do, or directly or indirectly offers or proposes or agrees to do, anything prohibited by the last preceding clause hereof commits an offence against these regulations.
(3) If any person without lawful authority in any wise aids or abets any other person, whether or not such other person is in New Zealand, to do or attempt to do anything which if done in New Zealand by such other person would be an offence against these regulations, he commits an offence against these regulations.
(4) If any person without lawful authority deals or attempts, or directly or indirectly offers or proposes or agrees, to deal with any money or security for money or other property which is in his hands or over which he has any claim or control for the purpose of enabling an enemy trader to obtain money on credit thereon or thereby, he commits an offence against these regulations.
(5) No prosecution for an offence against any of the preceding clauses of this regulation shall be instituted except with the written consent of the Attorney-General.
(6) Judicial notice shall be taken of the signature to any consent given under the last preceding clause hereof.
REGULATION 3.—DECLARATION OF ENEMIES.
(1) If the Minister is satisfied that any person, firm, or company carrying on business in any place, whether in or out of New Zealand, is carrying on such business exclusively or to a substantial extent for the benefit or under the control of an alien enemy resident out of New Zealand or of an enemy trader, or is engaged in any business communications or undertaking injurious to the interests of His Majesty in respect of the present war, he may, by notice in the Gazette, declare such first-mentioned person, firm, or company to be an enemy trader for the purposes of these regulations.
(2) If the Minister is satisfied that any person, firm, or company resident out of New Zealand is an alien enemy and is carrying on business in New Zealand, or is carrying on business with persons, firms, or companies in New Zealand, he may, by notice in the Gazette, declare such first-mentioned person, firm, or company to be an enemy trader for the purposes of these regulations.
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Enemy Trading Emergency Regulations 1939
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🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry4 September 1939
Regulations, Emergency, Enemy Trading, World War II, Prohibitions, Exemptions