Law of the United Kingdom
United Kingdom legislation
| Act of Parliament | |
 Parliament of the United Kingdom | |
| Long title | An Act to impose penalties for trading with the enemy, to make provision as respects the property of enemies and enemy subjects, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid. |
|---|---|
| Citation | 2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 89 |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 5 September 1939 |
| Other legislation | |
| Repeals/revokes | Trading with the Enemy Act 1914 |
| Amended by | Emergency Laws (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1953 |
| Status: Amended | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
| Text of the Trading with the Enemy Act 1939 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk. | |
The Trading with the Enemy Act 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 89) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which makes it a criminal offence to conduct trade with the enemy in wartime, with a penalty of up to seven years' imprisonment. The bill passed rapidly through Parliament in just two days, from 3 to 5 September 1939, and the Act was passed on 5 September 1939, at the beginning of the Second World War. It is still in force.
The act's provisions about the custody of enemy property were inspiration for the Israeli Absentee Property Regulations and other laws passed in 1948 about the use of the Palestinians' properties by the state of Israel. It should be noted however that the 1939 act said that enemy property was only being confiscated "ith a view to preventing the payment of money to enemies and of preserving enemy property in contemplation of arrangements to be made at the conclusion of peace..."
See also
- Trading with the Enemy Act
- Trading with the Enemy Act 1914
- Daimler Co Ltd v Continental Tyre and Rubber Co (Great Britain) Ltd
References
- The citation of this Act by this short title is authorised by section 17(1) of this Act.
- Geremy Forman, Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar, "From Arab land to 'Israel Lands': the legal dispossession of the Palestinians displaced by Israel in the wake of 1948", Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2004, vol. 22 (pp. 809-830), pp. 815 and 816.
- Section 7(1) of the act.
External links
- [REDACTED] The full text of Trading with the Enemy Act, 1939 at Wikisource
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Hansard
- House of Lords 1st and 2nd readings 3 September 1939
- House of Commons 1st reading 3 September 1939
- House of Commons 2nd reading 4 September 1939
- House of Commons committee stage and 3rd reading 5 September 1939
- House of Lords 3rd reading 5 September 1939
- Royal assent reported in House of Lords 5 September 1939
- Royal assent reported in House of Commons 5 September 1939