The Foreign Compensation (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) (Registration and Determination of Claims) Order 1986

15.—(1) To establish a claim under this Part of the Order in respect of property (other than a debt, a balance in a bank or a share), any person making application to the Commission shall be required to establish to the satisfaction of the Commission:—

(a) that he is a person qualified under Article 14 of this Order to make such application;

(b) that immediately before the relevant date the property to which the application relates was situated in Russia and was British property (as provided in paragraph (2) of this Article);

(c) that he or his predecessor in title (or, if he is a trustee, the person for whom he is a trustee or the predecessor in title of such person) was deprived on a relevant date of title to or enjoyment of such property by any act of confiscation, nationalisation, expropriation, destruction or other similar act of dispossession and has suffered loss thereby; and

(d) that a claim in respect of such property was entered on the Register.

(2) Property shall be deemed to be British property for the purposes of this Article to the extent that it was beneficially owned by a British national.