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used in connect on with the business or trade, and to seize any such books or docu- ments as aforesaid.
(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 be guilty of a breach of these Regulations.
14.-(1.) Any person who does any act prohibited or who fails to do any act required to be done by these Regulatio s shall be guilty of a breach of these Regulations,
(2.) Any person guilty of a breach of these Regulations shall, upon conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 501. or to imprisonment with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding three months, or to both.
(3.) Where any company has entered into a transaction or has done any act which is an offence under these Regulations or has failed to do a y ac which is required to be done by these Regulati ns, every directo, manager, secretary, or other officer of the company who is knowingly a party to the transaction, act, or failure shall be guilty of an offence under these Regulations and shall, upon convic- tio", be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour, or to a fiae not exceeding 501., or to both.
Licences, &c.
15. 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 payment arise out of obligations entered into before the outbreak of war, or in the case of persons or bodies of persons mentioned in the Prohibited List before the date of the publication of their names therein.
16. Nothing in these Regulations shall be deemed to prohibit anything which may at any time hereafter be expressly permitt d by licence granted by His Majesty or by a licence given on behalf of H s Majesty or by a Secretary of State or given on the like behalf by the Minister, whether such lica ce be specially granted to individuals or be announced as applying to classes of persons.
The repeal of the King's Regulations entitled "The Trading with the Eremy (Amendment) Regulations, 1915," shall not affect any licence given thereunder which is in existence at the commencement of these Regulations.
Short Title.
17. These Regulations may be cited as "The Trading with the Enemy (Consoli- dation) Regulations, 1917."
B. ALSTON,
His Britannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires.
Peking, January 1, 1917.
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