The Foreign Compensation (People’s Republic of China) Order 1987

Property

17.—(1) To establish a claim under this Part of the Order in respect of property (other than a debt, a balance in a bank, a share or a pension or contributions towards a pension), 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 16 of this Order to make such application;

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

(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 ownership or enjoyment of such property by any act of confiscation, nationalisation, expropriation, destruction, or dispossession whether direct or indirect or through the application of measures effectively causing dispossession.

(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.