Family Allowances, National Insurance and Industrial Injuries (Refugees) Order, 1956
| Year | 1956 |
1956 No. 1698
RECIPROCAL AGREEMENTS
The Family Allowances, National Insurance and Industrial Injuries (Refugees) Order, 195631stOctober 1956
7thNovember 1956
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 31st day of October, 1956
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Whereas at Geneva on the twenty-eighth day of July, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, a Convention relating to the Status of Refugees was agreed between States (which Convention is hereinafter referred to as "the Convention" and certain provisions of which are set out in the First Schedule hereto):
And Whereas by Article 43 of the Convention it was provided that the Convention should come into force on the ninetieth day following the day of deposit of the sixth instrument of ratification or accession with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and that as regards any State ratifying or acceding subsequently the Convention should enter into force on the ninetieth day following the date of deposit by such State of its instrument of ratification or accession:
And Whereas the Convention has been ratified or acceded to by the States specified in the first column of the Second Schedule hereto and their instruments of ratification or accession were deposited on the dates respectively specified opposite to those States in the second column of that Schedule and the Convention has accordingly come into operation as regards those States on the dates respectively specified opposite to those States in the third column of that Schedule:
And Whereas by section 64 of the National Insurance Act, 1946(a) as extended by subsection (1) of section 4 of the Family Allowances and National Insurance Act, 1956(b), and section 85 of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act, 1946(c), it is provided that Her Majesty may, by Order in Council, make provision for modifying or adapting the Family Allowances Act, 1945(d), and the said Acts of 1946 in their application to cases affected by agreements with other Governments providing for reciprocity in the matters specified in those sections:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of the said section 64 of the National Insurance Act, 1946, extended as aforesaid by subsection (1) of
(a) 9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 67.
(b) 4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 50.
(c) 9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 62.
(d) 8 & 9 Geo. 6. c. 41.
section 4 of the Family Allowances and National Insurance Act, 1956, and the said section 85 of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act, 1946, and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Family Allowances, National Insurance and Industrial Injuries (Refugees) Order, 1956, and shall come into operation on the seventh day of November, 1956.
(2) The Interpretation Act, 1889(a), applies to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
Modification of Acts
2. Those provisions contained in the Convention which are set out in the First Schedule hereto shall have full force and effect, so far as the same relate to England, Wales and Scotland and provide by way of agreement with the governments of the States specified in the Second Schedule hereto for reciprocity in any matters specified in either subsection (1) of section 64 of the National Insurance Act, 1946, as extended by subsection (1) of section 4 of the Family Allowances and National Insurance Act, 1956, or subsection (1) of section 85 of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act, 1946 (which subsections relate to reciprocal agreements with other governments), and the Family Allowances Acts, 1945 to 1956, the National Insurance Acts, 1946 to 1956, and the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Acts, 1946 to 1956, shall have effect subject to such modifications as may be required therein for the purpose of giving effect to any such provisions.
W. G. Agnew.
FIRST SCHEDULE
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