TRADING WITH THE ENEMY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1939, Page 11

TRADING WITH THE ENEMY

MADE AN OFFENCE The Enemy "Trading Regulations, issued;by. • special-authprity : .early this morning, were, .explained by the Minister of industries and.. Commerce.-, (the -Hon. D. G: SulliVah)'. He said: that ■ the-regulations have been' issued, pur--1 suant to the Public; Safety Conservation Act; i932r and to a Proclamation of emergency now in force under that Act and aim ,at the control of all trading and business dealings with „ the tnemy.- "■ -Theyl prohibit r such trading and make it iafl offence. The regulations provide the necesgiry power and "authority to enable ; investigation:Of- trading transactions to be maSVif there, is. reasonable.ground for suspecting;"that'...an offence under tlie'tegulations. has been or is about Vn"V<p rnrnfnitted by aiiv T nersoh! firm,

The regulations also empower1 "the Minister of Customs to prohibit the export of any goods if there is any reason to suspect that the consignee of any goods shippexi or about to" be shipped for export to any place not within the British Dominions or . mandated territories, or that any for whom such' goods- areidesignedj |f:^i; enemytrader or a person engaged m any business undertaking or communications injurious to the interests of his Majesty in respect to■ the war. ;