Trading with the
Enemy Act, 1939.
of the custodian that the money or property is money or property to which an order under this section applies, the certificate shall be evidence of the facts stated therein, and if that person complies with the requirement or direction, he shall not be liable to any action or other legal proceeding by reason only of such compliance.
(3) Where, in pursuance of an order made under this section,—
- (a) any money is paid to a custodian,
- (b) any property, or the right to transfer any property, is vested in a custodian, or
- (c) a direction is given to any person by a custodian in relation to any property which appears to the custodian to be property to which the order applies,
neither the payment, vesting or direction nor any proceedings in consequence thereof shall be invalidated or affected by reason only that at a material time
- (i) some person who was or might have been interested in the money or property, and who was an enemy or an enemy subject, had died or had ceased to be an enemy or an enemy subject, or
- (ii) some person who was so interested, and who was believed by the custodian to be an enemy or an enemy subject, was not an enemy or an enemy subject.
(4) Any order under this section shall have effect notwithstanding anything in any Act passed before this Act.
(5) If any person pays any debt, or deals with any property, to which any order under this section applies, otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of the order, he shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to both such imprisonment and such fine; and the payment or dealing shall be void.
(6) If any person, without reasonable cause, fails to produce or furnish, in accordance with the requirements of an order under this section, any document or information which he is required under the order to produce or8
