Foreign Compensation Act 1950

3 Compensation payable by foreign Governments under future agreements. U.K.

[F1 (1)] If His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom enter into or contemplate an agreement with the government of [F2 any other country] providing for the payment of compensation by the latter government, His Majesty may by Order in Council make provision for all or any of the following matters, that is to say:—

(a) for the registration by the Commission of claims to participate in such compensation, and for the making of reports by the Commission with respect to such claims;

(b) for the determination of such claims by the Commission;

(c) F3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(d) for the distribution by the Commission of any sums paid to them by His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom, being sums received under the agreement;

(e) for any supplementary and incidental matters for which provision appears to His Majesty to be necessary or expedient.

[F4 (2) An order in Council under this section may make provisionmdash;

(a) for defining the persons who are to be qualified, in respect of nationality or status, to make applications to the Commission for the purpose of establishing claims under this section and for imposing any other conditions to be fulfilled before such claims can be entertained;

(b) for pescribing the matters which have to be established to the satisfaction of the Commission by persons making such applications;

(c) for requiring documents of title relating to property in respect of which claims are to be established to be surrendered to the Commission and for securing the abandonment or extinction of rights in respect of which claims are established.]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 3 renumbered S. 3(1) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(2), Sch. 2 para 12(1)

F2 Words substituted by Foreign Compensation Act 1969 (c. 20), s. 2(1)

F3 S. 3(1)(c) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(2), Sch. 2 para 12(1)

F4 S. 3(2) added by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(2), Sch. 2 para 12(1)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 3 amended by Foreign Compensation Act 1969 (c. 20), ss. 2, 3