348 TRADING WITH THE ENEMY (CONSOLIDATION) REGULATIONS, 1917
The Minister may at any time vary or add to the Prohibited List, and such variations and additions shall have effect in each consular district as though they were contained in the list in the schedule hereto from the date on which they are published by being exhibited conspicuously in the public offices of the consulate of that district.
A copy of the Prohibited List and of any variation thereof or additions thereto shall be kept exhibited in each consular office.
10. Any person who, by himself or in conjunction with others, whether British subjects or not, enters into any transaction mentioned in Regulations 3 and 4 of these Regulations with any person or body of persons in the Prohibited List shall be deemed to have traded with the enemy and shall be guilty of a breach of these Regulations.
Provided that nothing in this Regulation shall be taken to prohibit-
(a) Any person who is engaged in any non-enemy country in the business of insurance from carrying on in that country that business (other than the business of marine insurance or of insurance against fire or any other risk of goods or merchandise during transit from shipper's or manufacturer's warehouse until deposited in warehouse on the termination of the transit, if any part of the transit is by sea) with or through the agency of any of the persons or bodies of persons mentioned in the Prohibited List.
(b) Any person who is engaged in working any railway or other service of public utility in any non-enemy country under any charter, grant, or concession made by the Government of, or by any provincial or municipal authority in, any such country from trading with any of the persons r bodies of persons mentioned in the Prohibited List, so far only as is necessary to enable the person or body of persons engaged in working such railway or other service of public utility to comply with or fulfil the obligations or conditions of the charter, grant, or concession under which the working of the railway or other service of public utility is carried on.
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11. Where an Act constitutes an offence both under these Regulations and under the law applied by the Principal Order, the offender shall be liable to be prosecuted and punished under either these Regulations or the law aforsaid, but shall not be liable to be punished twice for the same offence.
12. A prosecution for an offence under these Regulations shall not be instituted .except by or with the consent of the Crown Advocate.
Provided that the person charged with such an offence may be arrested and a warrant for his arrest may be issued and executed, and such person may be remanded in custody or on bail notwithstanding that the consent of the Crown Advocate to the institution of the prosecution for the offence has not been obtained, but no further or other proceedings s∙all be taken until that consent has been obtained.
13.—(1.) Any Court established under the Principal Order, on being satisfied on information ou oath laid on behalf of the Minister that there is reasonable ground for suspecting that an offence under these Regulations has been or is about to be committed by any person, may issue a warrant authorising a British subject appointed by the Minister or by any consular officer in his own district and named in the warrant to inspect all books or documents belonging to or under the control of that person, and to require any British subject able to give any information with respect to the business or trade of that persou to give that information, and, if accompanied by an officer of the Court, to enter and search any premises to which the jurisdiction of the Court extends and which are
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