Foreign Compensation (Egypt) (Determination and Registration of Claims) Order, 1959
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1959/625 |
| Year | 1959 |
1959 No. 625
The Foreign Compensation (Egypt) (Determination and Registration of Claims) Order, 19596thApril 1959
7thApril 1959
9thApril 1959
At the Court at Windsor Castle, the 6th day of April, 1959
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Whereas Her Majesty is authorised to make provision by Order in Council under the Foreign Compensation Act, 1950(a) (hereinafter referred to as "the Act") for the determination by the Foreign Compensation Commission (hereinafter referred to as "the Commission") of claims to participate in compensation received under agreements with foreign Governments:
And Whereas an Agreement (hereinafter referred to as "the Agreement") entered into between Her Majesty's Government and the Government of the United Arab Republic, on the 28th day of February, 1959, provides that the Government of the United Arab Republic shall pay to the United Kingdom Government the sum of £27,500,000 sterling in full and final settlement of the claims referred to in paragraph (1) of Article IV of the Agreement:
And Whereas it is expedient that provision should be made with regard to sums received from the Government of the United Arab Republic and for the registration, assessment and determination of claims in respect of British property in Egypt:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in that behalf by the Act or otherwise in Her Majesty vested, is pleased, by
(a) 14 Geo. 6. c. 12.
and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—
PART I
INTERPRETATION
1.—(1) The Interpretation Act, 1889(a), shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament, and as if this Order were an Act of Parliament.
(2) In this Order:—
"British nationals" means
(a) citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies, citizens of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, citizens of Southern Rhodesia, British subjects without citizenship, and British protected persons belonging to any of the territories for whose international relations the Government of the United Kingdom were on the 28th day of February, 1959, responsible, and
(b) corporations and unincorporated associations constituted under the laws in force in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or in any territory for whose international relations the Government of the United Kingdom were on the 28th day of February, 1959, responsible, and
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