TRADE WITH THE ENEMY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2394, 25 February 1915, Page 6

TRADE WITH THE ENEMY

A ROYAL PROCLAMATION A Gazette/Extraordinary published last ■ night', states that His Excellency the Governor 1 has it in command from His, Majesty the King to publish,the following proclamation for the informationthai."public:— "Whereas as a result of the present war certain-territory forming part of the territory of an enemy country is or may be in:th'e effective military occupation of us or: our Allies or of a'neutral; State (in this proclamation referred to as fterritory in _ friendly occupation'), and certain territory forming part of our territory- or of that, of an allied or neutral State is or may in the effective military occupation of an enemy (in this' proclamation referred to as 'territory in hostile occupation'):— And whereas it is- iexpedieht in our' interest, and in that of our Allies that the proclamations relating to trading with the'enemy should apply to territoryin friendly occupation, as. they apply to our territory or that'-of -our Allies, and should apply to territory' in hostile occupation as they apply to an enemy country: Now, therefore, twe have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our Royal proclamation declaring and it is hereby declared as follows:—

"1. The proclamations for the time being in force relating to trading with the enemy shall apply to territory in. friendly occupation as they apply to our territory or that of our Allies, and to ■territory in. hostile occupation as they apply to an enemy, country. 2. Any references to the outbreak of the war in any proclamation so applied shall, as respects territory in friendly or hostile occupation, be ■ construed as references to the time at which the ter-: ritory so became in friendly or hostile occupation.' "3.. The certificate of any person authorised by a Secretary of State to give such certificates, that any territory is in friendly or hostile occupation within the meaning of that proclamation, or as to the time at which any territory so became or ceased to be' territory in friendly or hostile occupation, shall for ilfie purposes of. that proclamation be final and conclusive. "4. Nothing' in that proclamation shall be taken to prohibit anything to stand expressly permitted by our license or by a license given on our behalf by a secretary of State or tbe Board of Trade, or tho Lords Commissioners of our Treasury, whether such licenses be specially granted to individuals or be announced as applying to classes of persons, or otherwise prohibit any special arrangement which may be made by any such license or_ otherwise with our authority for special treatment of any occupied territory or persons in any such occupied territory entitled to such special treatment. "5. This proclamation shall be called the Trading with the Enemy (Occupied Territory)! Proclamation, 1915."