New Zealand Gazette – 1939 – No. 91

Page 2360

✨ Enemy Trading Emergency Regulations



the business or trade of the person, firm, or company referred to in
the warrant which such person is able to give, commits an offence
against these regulations.

(4) Where it appears to the Minister—

(a) In the case of an individual, that such individual, or in the case
of a firm, that any one of the partners in the firm was
immediately before or has been at any time since the outbreak of war an alien enemy or a subject of or resident
or carrying on business in an enemy country; or

(b) In the case of a company, that immediately before or at any
time since the outbreak of war one-third or more of the
issued share capital or of the directorate of the company
was or has been held by or on behalf of or consisted or has
consisted of persons being alien enemies or subjects of or
resident or carrying on business in an enemy country, or
that immediately before or at any time since the outbreak of
war the substantial control of any company was or has been
exercised by persons being alien enemies or subjects of or
resident or carrying on business in an enemy country; or

(c) In the case of a person, firm, or company, that such person,
firm, or company immediately before or at any time since
the outbreak of war was or has been acting as agent for any
person, firm, or company being alien enemies or subjects of
or resident or carrying on business in an enemy country; or

(d) That the business or any part thereof carried on by any person,
firm, or company is, by reason of the enemy nationality or
enemy association of that person, firm, or company, or of
any member of that firm or company or otherwise, carried
on wholly or mainly for the benefit of or under the control
of alien enemies, enemy traders, or enemy subjects; or

(e) That contracts have immediately before or at any time since
the outbreak of war been entered into between any person,
firm, or company and an alien enemy or an enemy subject
or enemy trader,-

then, and in any such case, and so that the Minister may satisfy
himself that the person, firm, or company is not trading with an
enemy trader, or for the purpose of ascertaining whether the business
is carried on for the benefit or under the control of alien enemies,
enemy traders, or enemy subjects, or for the purpose of ascertaining
the relations existing immediately before or at any time since the
outbreak of war between such person, firm, or company, or any member
of that firm or company and an alien enemy or an enemy subject or
an enemy trader, or for the purpose of obtaining information on which
to decide whether any person, firm, or company ought to be declared
to be an enemy trader under Regulation 3 hereof, the Minister may,
if he thinks it expedient so to do, by written order under his hand
give to any officer of the Department of Industries and Commerce,
Tourist and Publicity named in the order authority from time to time
to inspect all books and documents belonging to or under the control
of the person, firm, or company, and to require any person able to give
information with respect to the business or trade of that person, firm,
or company to give that information.



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🏭 Enemy Trading Emergency Regulations 1939 (continued from previous page)

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
4 September 1939
Regulations, Emergency, Enemy Trading, World War II, Prohibitions, Exemptions, Customs, Exports, Licenses, Investigations