The Family Allowances, National Insurance and Industrial Injuries (European Interim Agreement) Order, 1959

Whereas at Paris on the eleventh day of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, an Interim Agreement between Governments, being members of the Council of Europe, on social security other than schemes for old age, invalidity and survivors (which Agreement is set out in the First Schedule hereto and is hereinafter referred to as “the Agreement”) and a Protocol supplementing the Agreement (which Protocol is set out in the Second Schedule hereto and is hereinafter referred to as “the Protocol”) were signed on behalf of those Governments:

And Whereas by Article 13 and Article 14 of the Agreement and by Article 3 of the Protocol it was provided that the Agreement and the Protocol, respectively, should come into force on the first day of the month following the date of deposit with the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe of the second instrument of ratification, and that as regards any subsequent ratification or accession, the Agreement or Protocol should come into force on the first day of the month following the date of the deposit of the instrument of ratification or accession:

And Whereas by paragraph 3 of Article 9 of the Agreement it was provided that any Contracting Party might withdraw either in whole or in part any reservation made by it by a notification to that effect addressed to the said Secretary-General, such notification taking effect on the first day of the month following the month in which it was received and that the Agreement should apply accordingly:

And Whereas a notification by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland withdrawing its reservation to the Agreement in so far as that reservation concerned the schemes of Family Allowances in Great Britain and the Isle of Man and modifying that reservation in so far as it concerns the scheme of Family Allowances in Northern Ireland, (which notification is set out in the Third Schedule hereto), was received by the said Secretary-General on the ninth day of January, 1959:

And Whereas, subject as hereinafter appears, the Agreement and the Protocol have been ratified or acceded to, as the case may be, by the Governments specified in the first column of the Fourth Schedule hereto on the dates respectively specified opposite to those Governments in the second column of that Schedule, and the Agreement and Protocol have accordingly come into operation as regards those Governments on the dates respectively specified opposite to those Governments in the third column of that Schedule:

And Whereas by section 64 of the National Insurance Act, 19461 as extended by subsection (1) of section 4 of the Family Allowances and National Insurance Act, 19562, and section 85 of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act, 19463, it is provided that Her Majesty may by Order in Council make provision for modifying or adapting the Family Allowances Act, 19454 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, as so extended, 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:—