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

17.  To establish a claim under this Part of the Order in respect of 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 the share was beneficially owned at the relevant date by a British national;

(c) that the company to which the share related was incorporated or constituted under the laws in force in Russia;

(d) that he or his predecessor in title (or, if he is a trustee, the person for whom he is trustee or the predecessor in title of such person) has suffered loss in respect of the share as a result of any act of confiscation, nationalisation, expropriation or other similar act of dispossession applied in Russia on a relevant date to the share or to the company or to any of its assets; and

(e) that a claim in respect of the share was entered on the Register.