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26 of 1946, First Schedule.
Trading with the Enemy.
(9) In any proceedings for an offence of trading with the enemy, the fact that any document has been despatched addressed to a person in enemy territory shall, unless the contrary is proved, be evidence, as against any person who was a party to the despatch of the document, that the person to whom the document was despatched was an enemy. [4]
Purchase of enemy currency.
Transfer of negotiable instruments and choses in action by enemies.
6. (1) Purchasing enemy currency shall be treated as trading with the enemy.
(2) In this section "enemy currency" means any such notes or coins as circulate as currency in any area under the sovereignty of a power with whom His Majesty is at war, not being an area in the occupation of His Majesty or of a power allied with His Majesty, or any such other notes or coins as are for the time being declared by an order of the Governor to be enemy currency. [5]
7. (1) No assignment of a chose in action made by or on behalf of an enemy shall, except with the sanction of the Governor, be effective so as to confer on any person any rights or remedies in respect of the chose in action; and neither a transfer of a negotiable instrument by or on behalf of an enemy, nor any subsequent transfer thereof, shall, except with the sanction of the Governor, be effective so as to confer any rights or remedies against any party to the instrument.
(2) Subsection (1) shall apply in relation to any transfer of any coupon or other security transferable by delivery, not being a negotiable instrument, as it applies in relation to any assignment of a chose in action.
(3) If any person by payment or otherwise purports to discharge any liability from which he is relieved by this section, knowing the facts by virtue of which he is so relieved, he shall be deemed to have thereby traded with the enemy: Provided that in any proceedings for an offence of trading with the enemy which are taken by virtue of this subsection it shall be a defence for the defendant to prove that at the time when he purported to discharge the liability in question he had reasonable grounds for believing that the liability was enforceable against him by order of a competent court, not being either a court having jurisdiction in this Colony or a
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