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The bill of which a copy was enclosed in the Governor's des-

patch of the 2nd June, 1916, was withdrawn and its provisions have

been incorporated in this Ordinance.

Section 1 is formal.

Section 2 contains definitions of terms. "Corporation under

enemy control", "enemy", "ehemy subject", "immovable property" and

"property under prohibited control" are defined for the purposes of

sections 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 22 which are referred to below.

The definition of "a corporation under enemy control", is based

on the Nigerian draft Ordinance. The term "property under pro-

hibited control" was introduced in order to simplify the enacting

sections.

It will be noticed that the term "alien enemy" retains the

meaning which it had under the previous Ordinances, and is not

It was affected by the definition of"shemy" in this Ordinance, originally intended to use the term "enemy subject" in the prin- cipal Ordinance and not the term "alien enemy", but the latter term was adopted in deference to the terminology which was being

To have abandoned the used in the United Kingdom at the time.

term now would have required so many alterations in the existing Ordinances that it seemed more convenient to retain it in spite of the fact that a certain amount of overlapping in the meaning

of the terms used is thereby caused.

In order to clear up doubts as to whether arbitrations are legal proceedings for the purpose of the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Amendment Ordinance, 1915, "legal proceeding" is defined as in-

cluding an arbitration.

The sections affected are sections 2,

3, 4 and 6 of Ordinance No. 11 of 1915, and sections 3 and 4 of

this Ordinance,