TRADING WITH THE ENEMY.

No. 33 of 1940.

An Act to amend section three of the Trading with the Enemy Act 1939.

[Assented to 3rd June, 1940.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Trading with the Enemy Act 1940.

(2.) The Trading with the Enemy Act 1939 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Trading with the Enemy Act 1939-1940.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the day on which the Principal Act came into operation.

Definitions.

3. Section three of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (1.) the definitions of “enemy country” and “enemy subject” and inserting in their stead the following definition:—

“‘enemy subject’ means any person, firm or corporation trading with whom or with which would be deemed to be trading with the enemy within the meaning of sub-section (2.) of this section;”.