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REGULATIONS PROHIBITING TRADING WITH THE ENEMY
(2) If any person having the custody of any book or document inspection of which has been authorised under this Regulation refuses or wilfully neglects to procure it for inspection, or if any such person who is able to give any information which may be required to be given under this Regulation refuses or wilfully neglects when required to give that information, that person shall, upon conviction, be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour, or to a fine of £50 or to both.
IX.-Where any company has entered into a transaction or has done any act which is an offence under these Regulations, every director, manager, secretary or other officer of the company who is knowingly a party to the transaction or act shall be guilty of an offence under these Regulations and shall, upon conviction, be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour, or to a fine not exceeding £50, or to both.
X.-Nothing in these Regulations shall be deemed to prohibit payments by or on account of enemies to persons resident, carrying on business, or being in His Majesty's Dominions if such payments arise out of obligations, other than those of or relating to insurance or re-insurance of whatever nature, entered into before the outbreak of war.
XI.-Nothing in these Regulations shall be deemed to prohibit anything which may at any time hereafter be expressly permitted by licence granted by His Majesty or by a licence given on behalf of His Majesty or by a Secretary of State or given on the like behalf by the Minister, whether such licence be specially granted to individuals or be announced as applying to classes of persons.
XII. The Trading with the Enemy Regulations 1915 made on January 29tb, 1915, are hereby repealed as from the 26th cay of July, 1915.
XIII. These Regulations may be cited as the "Trading with the Enemy (Amendment) Regulations, 1915.”
J. N. JORDAN,
His Britannic Majesty's Minister.
Peking, July 12th, 1915.
GENERAL LICENCE UNDER KING'S REGULATIONS No. 10 of 1915.
WHEREAS under the provisions of the King's Regulations No. 10 of 1915 prohibiting trading with the enemy all persous subject to the jurisdiction of His Majesty's Supreme Court for China were prohibited from doing certain things save so far as licences might be issued enabling them to do so, AND WHEREAS by para- graph XI. of the aforesaid King's Regulations it is provided that nothing in such Regulations sha1 be taken to prohibit anything which shall be expressly permitted by the King's licence or by the licence given on His behalf by a Secretary of State or on the like behalf by His Majesty's Minister in China whether such licence be specially granted to individuals or be announced to classes of persons-Now THERE- FORE I, His Britannic Majesty's Minister in China, hereby announce as follows:-
(1) In this licence the words "person" and "enemy" shall have the same meanings as are given to them in the said Ki g's Regulations No. 10 of 1914.
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