Regulation 6 of the Defence (Trading with the Enemy) Regulations, 1940, continued the Custodian of Enemy Property and Board of Trade control over the property in the United Kingdom of persons resident in a territory which had ceased to be in the occupation of the enemy.

The effect of the present Order is to complete the removal of this particular control from the money and property of persons resident in or carrying on business in territories of the French Franc Area which were occupied by the enemy.

Such control was by an Order dated 9th December, 1943, (S.R. & O. 1943, No. 1684), removed from Corsica, Syria and the Lebanon, French Somaliland, Algeria, The French Zone of Morocco, and Tunisia; and from the Saar Territory by an Order dated the 29th September, 1952 (1952 No. 1760).