Paragraph 2

In subsection (1) of section one of the principal Act after the words “any person who trades with” there shall be inserted the words “or attempts to trade with”, and after paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of that section there shall be inserted the words “and any reference in this Act to an attempt tp trade with the enemy shall be construed accordingly”.

In paragraph (ii) of the proviso to subsection (2) of the said section one for the words “had been performed before the commencement of the war by reason of which the person from whom the payment was received became an enemy” there shall be substituted the words “had already been performed when the payment was received, and had been performed at a time when the person from whom the payment was received was not an enemy”.

Proceedings in respect of an offence of trading with the enemy alleged to have been committed by any person may be taken before the appropriate court in the United Kingdom having jurisdiction in the place where that person is for the time being.

The following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (3) of section one of the principal Act:—

“(3A)

In any proceedings for an offence of trading with the enemy, the fact that any document has been despatched addressed to a person in enemy territory shall, unless the contrary is proved, be evidence, as against any person who was a party to the despatch of the document, that the person to whom the document was despatched was an enemy.”