Trading with the Enemy (Transfer of Negotiable Instruments, etc.) (Germany) Order, 1952
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1952 No. 5
TRANSFER OF NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS, ETC.
The Trading with the Enemy (Transfer of Negotiable Instruments, etc.) (Germany) Order, 19521stJanuary 1952
The Treasury, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon them by section 4 of the Trading with the Enemy Act, 1939(b) (which renders ineffective, except with the sanction of the Treasury, the transfer by or on behalf of enemies of negotiable instruments and choses in action) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order.
(b) 2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 89.
1. The Treasury do hereby sanction
(a) any assignment of a chose in action which, on or after the date of this Order, comes into the ownership of an authority or a person to whom this Order applies,
(b) any transfer of a negotiable instrument issued on or after that date, and
(c) any transfer of any security transferable by delivery, not being a bond, a coupon or a negotiable instrument, which on or after that date comes into the ownership of an authority or a person to whom this Order applies,
being an assignment or transfer made on or after the date of this Order by reason of any trade authorised by Article 1 of the Trading with the Enemy (Authorisation) (Germany) Order, 1952(a), by or on behalf of an authority or a person to whom this Order applies.
2. This Order applies
(i) to any government, public or other authority in Germany;
(ii) to any individual resident in Germany;
(iii) as respects any business carried on in Germany, to any individual or body of persons (whether corporate or unincorporate) carrying on that business.
3. For the purposes of this Order "Germany" means Berlin and the French, British, American and Russian Military Zones of Germany as established by the statement by the Governments of the United Kingdom, the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Provisional Government of the French Republic on the zones of occupation in Germany on the 5th June, 1945, and also those parts of the former German Reich which are at present administered by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
4. In the application of this Order to Scotland "chose in action" means "right of action or incorporeal moveable".
5. The Trading with the Enemy (Transfer of Negotiable Instruments, etc.) (Germany) Order, 1950(b), is hereby revoked.
6.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Trading with the Enemy (Transfer of Negotiable Instruments, etc.) (Germany) Order, 1952.
(2) The...
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