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4.
Subsection (1) provides that the Secretary of State has the power
to make an order, either general or related to a specific case or cases,
applying Clause 1 to such cases. In order to do so he must be satisfied
that measures have been or are proposed to be taken by or under the law
of any overseas country for regulating or controlling international trade;
and that those measures, in so far as they apply or would apply to things
done or to be done outside the territorial jurisdiction of the country con-
cerned by persons who carry on business in the United Kingdom, are damaging
or threaten to damage the trading interests of the United Kingdom. The
order must specify the measures to which it applies.
5. In respect of measures to which Clause 1 has been applied subsection
(2) empowers the Secretary of State by order to require a person in the
United Kingdom who carries on business there to notify the Secretary of
State of any requirement or prohibition imposed or threatened to be imposed
on that person pursuant to measures specified by the order made under sub-
section (1). The requirements which may be specified in such a further
order include any requirement to submit any contract or other document for
approval under the specified measures.
6.
Subsection (3) permits the Secretary of State to give directions to
any person in the United Kingdom who carries on business there prohibiting
compliance with requirements or prohibitions imposed or threatened to be
imposed under the measures to which an order made under subsection (1)
applies.
7.
Subsection (4) provides that the Secretary of State's power to make orders under subsections (1) and (2) shall be exerciseable by statutory
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