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otherwise from any General Ruling No. 6 (§ 511.206) account unless the bonds to which such coupons relate are in such General Ruling No. 6 account.

§ 511.30

General License No. 30.

A general license is hereby granted authorizing any bank or trust company incorporated under the laws of the United States or of any State, Territory or District of the United States, or any private bank subject to supervision and examination under the banking laws of any state of the United States, acting as trustee of any trust administered in the United States or as legal representative of any estate administered in the United States, in which trust or estate one or more persons who are nationals of one of the foreign countries designated in Executive Order No. 8389, as amended, have an interest, beneficial or otherwise, or are co-trustees or co-representatives, to engage in the following transactions:

(a) Payments of distributive shares of principal or income to all persons legally entitled thereto who are not nationals of any of the foreign countries designated in such Executive order, as amended; and

(b) Other transactions arising in the administration of such trust or estate which might be engaged in if no national of any of the foreign countries designated in such Executive order, as amended, were a beneficiary, co-trustee or co-representation of such trust or estate: Provided, however, That this section shall not be deemed to authorize such trustee or legal representative to engage in any transaction at the request, or upon the instructions, of any beneficiary, co-trustee or co-representative of such trust or estate or other person who is a national of any of the foreign countries designated in such Executive order, as amended.

NOTE: For additional material relating to § 511.30, see § 511.320.

§ 511.30a General License No. 30A.

(a) A general license is hereby granted authorizing all transactions incident to the administration of the assets situated within the United States of any blocked estate in which any one of the following conditions is present:

(1) The decedent was not a national of a blocked country at the time of his death;

(2) The decedent was a citizen of the United States and a national of a blocked country at the time of his death solely by reason of his presence in a blocked country as a result of his employment by or service with the United States Government; or

(3) The gross value of the assets within the United States does not exceed $5,000:

Provided, however, That any property paid or distributed to a national of a blocked country pursuant to this general license shall be subject to all the provisions of the order: And provided further, That any payment or distribution of any funds, securities or other choses in action to a national of a blocked country shall be made by deposit in a blocked account in a domestic bank or with a public officer, agency, or instrumentality designated by a court having jurisdiction of the estate (i) in the name of the national who is the ultimate beneficiary thereof; (ii) in the name of a person who is not a national of a blocked country in trust for the national who is the ultimate beneficiary; or (iii) under any other designation which clearly shows the interest therein of such national.

(b) This general license also authorizes all transactions incident to the following limited acts of administration of the assets situated within the United States of any other blocked estate:

(1) The appointment and qualification of a personal representative;

(2) The collection and preservation of such assets by such personal representative and the payment of all costs, fees and charges in connection therewith; and

(3) The payment by such personal representative of funeral expenses and expenses of the last illness.

(c) This general license shall not be deemed to authorize:

(1) Any national of a blocked country to act as personal representative or corepresentative of any estate;

(2) Any national of a blocked country to represent, directly or indirectly, any person who has an interest in an estate;

(3) Any transaction directly or indirectly at the request or upon the instructions of any national of a blocked country: or

(4) Any transaction which could not be effected if no national of a blocked country had any interest in such estate.

(d) As used in this general license, the term "blocked estate" shall mean any decedent's estate in which a national of a blocked country has an interest. A person shall be deemed to have an interest in a decedent's estate if he (1) was the decedent; (2) is a personal representative; or (3) is a creditor, heir, legatee, devisee, distributee, or beneficiary.

(e) This general license authorizes all transactions incident to the collection, conservation, administration, liquidation, and distribution of any blocked estate engaged in since the effective date of the order, provided such transactions comply with the terms and conditions of this general license.

(f) Any transfer or other dealing in any property authorized under this general license shall not be deemed to limit or restrict the exercise of any power or authority under section 5 (b) of the Trading With the Enemy Act, as amended.

(g) Attention is directed to the provisions of § 511.320 (Public Circular No.

20).

§ 511.33

General License No. 33.

(a) Certain remittances to United States citizens in foreign countries authorized. A general license is hereby granted authorizing remittances by any person through any domestic bank to any individual who is a citizen of the United States within any foreign country and any domestic bank is authorized to effect such remittances, provided the following terms and conditions are complied with:

(1) Such remittances do not exceed $1,000 in any one calendar month to any payee and his household and are made only for the necessary living and traveling expenses of the payee and his household, except that an additional sum not exceeding $1,000 may be remitted once to such payee if such sum will be used for the purpose of enabling the payee or his household to return to the United States;

(2) Such remittances are not made from a blocked account other than from an account in a banking institution within the United States in the name of,

or in which the beneficial interest is held by, the payee or members of his household.

(b) Methods of effecting remittances. Remittances authorized in this section shall be effected pursuant to the terms and conditions of § 511.32 (a) (3) or (4), as the case may be. If remittances cannot be effected pursuant to § 511.32 (a) (3), domestic banks are authorized to effect such remittances in any of the following three ways:

(1) By establishing or maintaining free dollar accounts;

(2) By payment of the dollar amount of the remittance to a domestic bank for credit to a blocked account in the name of a banking institution within any blocked country; or

(3) By payment of the dollar amount of the remittance to a domestic bank for credit to the dollar account of a banking institution which is not a national of any blocked country.

(c) Duty of persons and domestic banks acting under this section. All persons making such remittances and all domestic banks effecting such remittances shall satisfy themselves that the foregoing terms and conditions are complied with.

(d) Reports by domestic banks effecting remittances. With respect to each remittance made pursuant to this section, reports shall be executed and filed in the manner and form and under the conditions prescribed in § 511.32.

(e) Definition. As used in this section the term "household" shall be deemed to have the meaning prescribed in § 511.32.

§ 511.37 General License No. 37.

A general license is hereby granted authorizing banking institutions within the United States to make all payments, transfers and withdrawals from accounts in the name of citizens of the United States while such citizens are within any foreign country in the course of their employment by the Government of the United States.

§ 511.42 General License No. 42.

(a) Persons licensed. A general license is hereby granted licensing as a generally licensed national:

(1) Any individual in the United States, except an individual who on Oc

tober 5, 1945, was in a blocked country other than a member of the generally licensed trade area, and

(2) Any partnership, association, corporation, or other organization which is a national of a blocked country solely by reason of the interest of persons licensed hereby.

(b) Definition. The term "blocked country" shall be deemed to include all countries licensed by § 511.94 (General License No. 94) except a country licensed by General License No. 96.

NOTE: For General Ruling No. 18, changing the status of the Philippines, see § 511.218. Section 511.329 (Public Circular 29), provides in part as follows:

The accounts of internees blocked pursuant to specific directions from the Treasury Department are not unblocked by virtue of § 511.42, as amended.

General License No. 96, formerly codified as § 131.96 of Title 31, has been revoked (12 F. R. 97, Jan. 7, 1947).

§ 511.44

General License No. 44.

The Roman Curia (or Curia Romana) of the Vatican City State is hereby licensed as a generally licensed national and all persons to the extent that they are acting for and on behalf of the Vatican City State are hereby licensed as generally licensed nationals.

§ 511.51 General License No. 51.

(a) A general license is hereby granted licensing the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a generally licensed country.

(b) As used in this general license: Any foreign country licensed as a "generally licensed country", and nationals thereof, shall be regarded for all purposes as if such foreign country were not a foreign country designated in Executive Order 8389.

§ 511.72a General License No. 72A.

(a) Certain transactions with respect to any blocked foreign patent, trademark, or copyright authorized. A general license is hereby granted authorizing the following transactions by any person who is not a national of any blocked country:

(1) The filing and prosecution of any application for a blocked foreign patent, trade-mark, or copyright, or for the renewal thereof;

(2) The receipt of any blocked foreign patent, trade-mark, or copyright;

(3) The filing and prosecution of opposition or infringement proceedings with respect to any blocked foreign patent, trade-mark, or copyright, and the prosecution of a defense to any such proceedings;

(4) The payment of fees currently due to the government of any foreign country, either directly or through an attorney or representative, in connection with any of the transactions authorized by subparagraph (1), (2), or (3) of this paragraph or for the maintenance of any blocked foreign patent, trade-mark, or copyright; and

(5) The payment of reasonable and customary fees currently due to attorneys or representatives in any foreign country incurred in connection with any of the transactions authorized by subparagraph (1), (2), (3), or (4) of this paragraph.

(b) Terms and conditions to which payments are subject. Payments effected pursuant to the terms of paragraph (a) (4) and (5) of this section may not be made from any blocked account. Such payments shall be subject to the following terms and conditions:

(1) Payments to the government of any country referred to in § 511.325 or to any attorney or representative within any such country shall be made in the manner specified in any general license, now outstanding or hereafter issued, which authorizes remittances to such country;

(2) Payments to any other government, attorney or representative shall be made in the manner and under the conditions specified in § 511.33 (b).

(c) Reports by domestic banks effecting remittances. With respect to payments authorized by paragraph (a) (4) and (5) of this section, reports shall be executed and filed in the manner and form and under the conditions prescribed in § 511.32: Provided, however, That in cases where Form TFR-132 is required to be executed item No. 6 thereof shall be left blank.

(d) Definition. As used in this section the term "blocked foreign patent, trade-mark, or copyright" shall mean any patent, petty patent, design patent, trade-mark, or copyright issued by any foreign country, in which a blocked country or national thereof has an interest, including any patent, petty patent, design

patent, trade-mark, or copyright issued by a blocked country: Provided, That the term "blocked foreign patent, trademark, or copyright" shall not be deemed to include any patent, petty patent, design patent, trade-mark, or copyright in which an enemy national, other than the government of a country referred to in § 511.325 or a person within such country, has an interest.

§ 511.74 General License No. 74.

(a) Certain United States citizens licensed as generally licensed nationals. A general license is hereby granted licensing as a generally licensed national any citizen of the United States who is within any foreign country and who is a national of a blocked country solely by reason of having established residence in a blocked country subsequent to June 6, 1944.

(b) Limited payments from accounts of other United States citizen: authorized. This section also authorizes payments and transfers of credit from blocked accounts in the United States for expenditures within the United States or the generally licensed trade area, as defined in § 511.53 (General License No. 53), of any citizen of the United States who is within any foreign country and who is not entitled to the benefits of paragraph (a) of this section: Provided, That the following terms and conditions are complied with:

(1) Such payments and transfers are made only from blocked accounts in the name of, or in which the beneficial interest is held by, such citizen or his family;

(2) The total of all such payments and transfers made under this section does not exceed $1,000 in any one calendar month for any such citizen or his family.

(c) Certain transactions not authorized. This section shall not be deemed to authorize any remittance to any blocked country or, except as expressly authorized above, any other payment, transfer, or withdrawal which could not be effected without a license by a person within the United States who is not a national of any blocked country. § 511.85 General License No. 85.

(a) A general license is hereby granted authorizing the following transactions

with respect to Mexican securities of the classes specified in the decree of August 4, 1942, of the United States of Mexico and which are held in blocked or General Ruling No. 6 accounts (§ 511.206) in banking institutions within the United States, notwithstanding the fact that Form TFEL-2 may not have been previously attached to such securities:

(1) The presentation of such securities to an appropriate registry agent within the United States pursuant to the terms of such decree;

(2) The receipt and registration of such securities by such registry agent pursuant to the terms of such decree; and

(3) The performance of such other acts as are necessarily incident to such registration:

Provided, however, That any registry agent receiving any such security pursuant to this general license shall hold such security within the United States and subject to the provisions of section 5 (b) of the Trading With the Enemy Act, as amended, and the order; and shall, within a reasonable period of time after such security has been received, return it to the banking institution previously holding such security, and such banking institution shall return such security to the account in which it was previously held.

(b) This general license shall also authorize the transactions, above described, with respect to securities of the type referred to in section 2A (1) of the order when such securities have been in the custody or possession of the same banking institution within the United States, continuously since July 25, 1940, notwithstanding the fact that Treasury Department Form TFEL-2 may not have been previously attached to such securities.

§ 511.86 General License No. 86.

(a) A general license is hereby granted authorizing the following transactions:

(1) The payment of premiums and interest on policy loans with respect to any blocked life insurance policy;

(2) The issuance, servicing or transfer of any blocked life insurance policy in which the only blocked interest is that of one or more of the following:

(i) A member of the armed forces of

the United States or a person accompanying such forces (including personnel of the American Red Cross, United Service Organizations and similar organizations);

(ii) An officer or employee of the United States; or

(iii) A citizen of the United States resident in a blocked country not within enemy territory; and

(3) The issuance, servicing or transfer of any blocked life insurance policy in which the only blocked interest (other than that of a person specified in subparagraph (2) of this paragraph) is that of a beneficiary:

Provided, however, That this paragraph does not authorize (i) any payment to the insurer from any blocked account in which an enemy national (other than a person specified in subparagraph (2) of this paragraph) has an interest, or from any other blocked account except a blocked account of the insured or beneficiary, or (ii) any payment by the insurer to a national of a blocked country unless payment is made by deposit in a blocked account in a domestic bank in the name of the national who is the ultimate beneficiary thereof.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of § 511.211 (General Ruling No. 11), the transactions authorized by paragraph (a) (2) of this section may be effected even though they involve a communication from a person specified in paragraph (a) (2) (i) or (ii) of this section while such person is within enemy territory.

(c) This general license further authorizes the application, in accordance with the provisions of the policy or the established practice of the insurer, of the dividends, cash surrender value, or loan value, of any blocked life insurance policy for the purpose of:

(1) Paying premiums;

(2) Paying policy loans and interest thereon;

or

(3) Establishing paid-up insurance;

(4) Accumulating such dividends or values to the credit of the policy on the books of the insurer.

(d) As used in this general license:

(1) The term "blocked life insurance policy" shall mean any life insurance policy or annuity contract, or contract supplementary thereto, in which there is a blocked interest.

(2) Any interest of a national of a blocked country shall be deemed to be a "blocked interest".

(3) The term "servicing" shall mean the following transactions with respect to any blocked life insurance policy:

(i) The payment of premiums, the payment of loan interest, and the repayment of policy loans;

(ii) The effecting by a life insurance company or other insurer of loans to an insured;

(iii) The effecting on behalf of an insured of surrenders, conversions, modifications, and reinstatements; and

(iv) The exercise or election by an insured of nonforfeiture options, optional modes of settlement, optional disposition of dividends, and other policy options and privileges not involving payment by the insurer.

(4) The term "transfer" shall mean the change of beneficiary, or the assignment or pledge of the interest of an insured in any blocked life insurance policy subsequent to the issuance thereof.

(e) This section shall not be deemed to authorize any transaction with respect to any blocked life insurance policy issued by a life insurance company or other insurer which is a national of a blocked country or which is not doing business or effecting insurance in the United States.

§ 511.87 General License No. 87.

A general license is hereby granted exempting all transactions from the provisions of section 2A (2) of the order, except transactions with respect to foreign scheduled securities as defined in § 511.205 (General Ruling No. 5) and domestic scheduled securities as defined in § 511.205b (General Ruling No. 5B). NOTE: For interpretation of § 511.87, see § 511.335.

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