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(b) vest in the Custodian any enemy property;

(c) vest in the Custodian the right to transfer any enemy property which has not been, and is not required by the order to be, vested in the Custodian:

(d) confer and impose on the Custodian and on any other person such rights, powers, duties and liabilities as may be prescribed as respects-

(property which has been, or is required to be, vested in the Custodian by or under the order,

(ii) property of which the right of transfer has been, or is required to be, so vested,

(ii) any other enemy property which has not been, and is not required to be, so vested, or

(iv) money which has been, or is by the order required to be, paid to the Custodian;

(e) require the payment of such fees as may be prescribed in the order to the Custodian in respect of such matters as may be prescribed and regulate the collection of and accounting for such fees;

require any person to furnish to the Custodian such re- Lurns, accounts and other information and to produce such documents, as the Custodian considers necessary for the discharge of his functions under the order,

and any such order may contain such incidental and supple- nientary provisions as appears to the Governor to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the order.

(4) Where any requirement or direction with respect to any money or property is addressed to any person by the Custodian and accompanied by a certificate of the Custodian that the money or property is money or property to which an order under this section applies, the certificate shall be evidence of the facts stated therein, and if that person complies with the requirement or direc tion, he shall not be liable to any action or other legal proceeding by reason only of such compliance.

(5) Where, in pursuance of an order made under this section-

(a) any money is paid to the Custodian;

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(b) any property, or the right to transfer any property, is

vested in the Custodian; or

(c) a direction is given to any person by the Custodian in relation to any property which appears to the Custodian to be property to which the order applies,

neither the payment, vesting or direction nor any proceedings in consequence thereof shall be invalidated or affected by reason only that at a material time-

() some person who was or might have been interested in the money or property, and who was an enemy or an enemy subject, had died or had ceased to be an enemy or an enemy subject; or

(ii) some person who was so interested, and who was believed by the Custodian to be an enemy or an enemy subject, was not an enemy or an enemy subject.

(6) If any person pays any debt, or deals with any property to which any order under this section applics, otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of the order or in accordance with the provisions of an order made under section 6, he shall be guilty of an offence and, on summary conviction, shall be liable to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months, and the payment or dealing shall be void.

(7) If any person, without reasonable cause, fails to produce or furnish, in accordance with the requirements of an order under this section, any document or information which he is required under the order to produce or furnish, he shall be liable on sum- mary conviction to a fine of two hundred dollars for every day on which the default continues.

(8) All fees received by the Custodian by virtue of an order under this section shall be paid into the general revenue of the Colony.

General and Supplementary Provisions.

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11. (1) Any person who, for the purpose of obtaining any False authority or sanction under this Ordinance, or in giving any ments and information for the purposes of this Ordinance or of any order obstruction. made thereunder, knowingly or recklessly makes a statement which