# The Trading with the Enemy (Custodian) Order 1949, Article 5


For the purposes of this Order
(i) “Enemy” means:—
(a) Germany or Japan or the Sovereign thereof,
(b) any individual resident in Germany or Japan,
(c) any body of persons constituted or incorporated under the laws of Germany or Japan,
(d) any body of persons (whether corporate or unincorporate) carrying on business in any place, if and so long as the body is controlled by any State, Sovereign, individual or body of persons as aforesaid, and
(e) as respects any business carried on in any such area as aforesaid, any individual or body of persons (whether corporate or unincorporate) carrying on that business in such territory.
(ii) “Germany” means Berlin, and the French, British, United States and Russian Zones of occupation, including those parts of the French and British Zones which are at present administered respectively by France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, and also those parts of the former German Reich which are at present administered respectively by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Poland.
(iii) “Japan” means all territory which was under Japanese sovereignty on the 7th December, 1941.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1949/1083/article/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/trading-with-the-enemy-custodian-order-1949/article-5
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