Trading with the Enemy.
(b) that the control or management of his trade or business has been or is likely to be so affected by the state of war as to prejudice its effective continuance and that it is in the public interest that the trade or business should continue to be carried on; or (c) that it is expedient in the public interest that a controller should be appointed owing to circumstances or considerations arising out of the war,
the Colonial Secretary may apply to the Supreme Court for the appointment of a controller of the trade or business and the Supreme Court shall have power to appoint such a controller for such time and subject to such conditions and with such powers as the court thinks fit, and the powers so conferred shall be either those of a receiver and manager or those powers subject to such modifications, restrictions or extensions as the court thinks fit, including, if the court considers it necessary or expedient for enabling the controller to borrow money, power, after a special application to the court for that purpose, to create charges on the property of the person aforesaid in priority to existing charges. The court shall have power to direct how and by whom the costs of any proceedings under this section and the remuneration, charges and expenses of the controller shall be borne and shall have power if it thinks fit to charge such costs, charges and expenses on the property of the person aforesaid in such order of priority in relation to any existing charges thereon as it thinks fit.
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14. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Ordinance it shall not be lawful for any bank, the constitution of which at the commencement of the war provided that any of the officers or directors thereof should be resident in any place which is for the time being enemy territory, to carry on its business in any way whatsoever except for the purpose of completing transactions entered into before the war, and it shall be lawful for the Governor to impose such restrictions in the case of any such bank and to require any such bank to submit to such supervision as he may think fit.
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Exception of certain banks.
impose restrictions in the case.
15. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Ordinance, if any enemy has a branch locally situated in the Colony, or if any firm carrying on business in the Colony of enemy subjects and
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