this Ordinance.
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It will therefore be a matter for considera-
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tion after some years whether these restrictions should not
be removed either by legislation or by a general permission
from the Governor which would cover all future transfers,
the meantime little difficulty is anticipated as the properties
are few in number and can be watched easily.
Section 18 deals with the question of trade marks belong-
ing to alien enemies, which by this section are vested in the Custodian in accordance with the instructions contained in
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the Secretary of State's Circular despatch of the 31st August, 1916. The section also vests in the Custo dian the goodwill of the business/of all alien enemies, and paragraph (d) pro- vides that for the purposes of this Ordinance no such goodwill shall be deemed to have determined owing to any circumstance s arising out of the war. Paragraph (c) specifically vesta
the goodwill and trade marks of the firms which have been or are being wound up. Paragraphs (e) and (f) are intended to
keep the vested trade marks on the register in order to prevent their being appropriated by some one else.
Section 19 provides that the validity of acts done by liquidators is not to be questioned on the ground that at the time when the act was done the person whose affairs are being wound up was not an alienjenemy, or had died,
or.
in the ca se
A somewhat similar
of a corporate body, had ceased to exist. provision appears in section 8 of the Trading with the Enemy Amendment Act, 5 and 6 Geo, 5, c.105, though it deals with a
different subject.
Section 20 provides that no legal proceeding of any kind shall be brought against any liquidator or public officer,