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(5) Any person having the custody of any books or documents who refuses or wilfully neglects to produce them for inspection to any officer holding an order from the Minister under the last preceding clause hereof, or who refuses or wilfully neglects to give such officer any information with respect to the business or trade of the person, firm, or company referred to in the order which such person is able to give, commits an offence against these regulations.

(6) Where any officer holding an order from the Minister given under clause (4) of this regulation finds any book or document to have been destroyed, mutilated, or falsified, any person having or having had control of such book or document shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations unless he proves that the destruction, mutilation, or falsification was not intended for the purpose of concealing any transaction which in the opinion of the Court would be likely to constitute an offence under Regulation 2 hereof.

(7) Where a person has given any information to a person to whom a warrant under this regulation has been issued or to an officer holding an order from the Minister given under clause (4) of this regulation, the information so given may be used in evidence against that person in any proceedings under these regulations, notwithstanding that he only gave the information on being required so to do pursuant to these regulations.

(8) For the purpose of the effective administration of this regulation any person expressly appointed in that behalf by the Minister shall have the powers of holding judicial inquiries and ancillary powers conferred on the Minister of Industries and Commerce pursuant to section 13 of the Board of Trade Act, 1919, as amended by the Board of Trade Amendment Act, 1923, and for that purpose the provisions of sections 14 to 25 of the Board of Trade Act, 1919, and all other relevant provisions of that Act shall apply mutatis mutandis.

REGULATION 7.—RESTRICTIONS ON BUSINESS.

(1) When the Minister is satisfied with respect to any business carried on in New Zealand that it is being carried on wholly or partially by or on behalf of or under the control or management of an enemy trader or an alien enemy, the Minister may, by notice to any person by whom such business is being carried on or managed in New Zealand or to the agent attorney or representative in New Zealand of any such person, impose such restrictions as he thinks fit upon the scope or nature of that business or upon the mode of carrying it on.

(2) Any such restriction may be in like manner removed or varied by the Minister.

(3) Where any person is or has at any time been, whether before or after the making of these regulations, a servant or agent of an alien enemy or of an enemy trader within the meaning of these regulations, or a servant or member of a firm or company being an enemy trader within the meaning of these regulations, the Minister may from time to time, by notice given to that person, impose such restrictions as he thinks fit upon the scope or nature of any business carried on or to be carried on by him or upon the mode of carrying on any such business.