The Foreign Compensation (Hungary) (Registration) (Amendment) Order 1954

Made: 19th October 1954

Laid before Parliament: 23rd October 1954

Coming into Operation: 24th October 1954

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 19th day of October, 1954

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas by Section 3 of the Foreign Compensation Act, 1950, (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”) Her Majesty is authorised, if Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom enter into or contemplate an agreement with the Government of any foreign country providing for the payment of compensation by the latter Government, to make provision by Order in Council for the registration by the Foreign Compensation Commission (hereinafter referred to as “the Commission”) of claims to participate in such compensation, and for the making of reports by the Commission with respect to such claims:

And Whereas such provision was made by the Foreign Compensation (Hungary) (Registration) Order, 1954[^f00001] (hereinafter referred to as “the Order”):

And Whereas it is now deemed expedient to make certain amendments to the Order:

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 and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered as follows:—

1

There shall be added to Article 1 of the Order the following:—

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Commission shall not receive any claim which has not reached the Commission on or before the thirty-first day of December, 1954.

2

• (a) This Order may be cited as the Foreign Compensation (Hungary) (Registration) (Amendment) Order, 1954.

• (b) This Order shall come into operation on the twenty-fourth day of October, 1954.

Signed

And the Right Honourable Anthony Eden, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, is to give the necessary directions herein.

W. G. Agnew

Explanatory note

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Foreign Compensation (Hungary) (Registration) Order, 1954, by providing that no claim shall be received by the Foreign Compensation commission under that Order unless it has reached the Commission on or before the 31st December, 1954.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: p. 921 above.