Foreign Compensation Act 1950

3Compensation payable by foreign Governments under future agreements

If His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom enter into or contemplate an agreement with the government of any foreign 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)for any matters arising in relation to such claims for which, in relation to the claims mentioned in the last preceding section, provision may be made under that section;

(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.