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Japanese Treaty of Peace Act 1951

1951 CHAPTER 6

An Act to provide for carrying into effect the Treaty of Peace with Japan and Protocol thereto.

[7th December 1951]

WHEREAS a Treaty of Peace with Japan and a Protocol thereto, copies of which have been laid before each House of Parliament, were signed on behalf of His Majesty at San Francisco on the eighth day of September, nine­teen hundred and fifty-one, and the said Treaty and Protocol will come into operation upon the deposit of instruments of ratifica­tion in accordance with the provisions of the said Treaty :

And whereas it is expedient that His Majesty should have power to do all such things as may be proper and expedient for giving effect to the said Treaty and Protocol:

Now therefore be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: —