Statutory Instruments

1958 No. 771

NATIONAL INSURANCE

The Family Allowances, National Insurance and Industrial Injuries (Belgium) Order, 1958

Made

7th May 1958

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 7th day of May, 1958

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas at Brussels on the twentieth day of May, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven, a Convention on social security between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of her other realms and territories, Head of the Commonwealth, and His Majesty the King of the Belgians (which Convention is set out in the Schedule hereto and is hereinafter referred to as “the Convention”) was signed on behalf of those High Contracting Parties:

And Whereas by Article 40 of the Convention it was provided that the Convention should enter into force on the first day of the second month following the month in which the instruments of ratification had been exchanged:

And Whereas the said Convention has been ratified by the Governments of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of the Kingdom of Belgium and the instruments of ratification were exchanged on the 30th day of April, 1958, and accordingly the said Convention enters into force on the first day of June, 1958:

And Whereas by section 64 of the National Insurance Act, 1946, as extended by subsection (1) of section 4 of the Family Allowances and National Insurance Act, 1956, and section 85 of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act, 1946, it is provided that Her Majesty may, by Order in Council, make provision for modifying or adapting the Family Allowances Act, 1945, and the said Acts of 1946 in their application to cases affected by agreements with other governments providing for reciprocity in the matters specified in those sections:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of the said section 64 of the National Insurance Act, 1946, extended as aforesaid by subsection (1) of section 4 of the Family Allowances and National Insurance Act, 1956, and the said section 85 of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act, 1946, and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—