The Social Security (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 1976

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 18th day of February 1976

Present

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas the Orders in Council specified in Schedule 1 to this Order modified certain enactments so as to give effect to the agreements set out in the Schedules to those Orders:

And Whereas Her Majesty's Government have proposed to each of the parties with whom the United Kingdom has made a relevant agreement set out in a Schedule to the Orders in Council mentioned in Schedule 1 to this Order to enter into agreements with them for modifying the existing agreements so as to take account of changes in the legislation of the United Kingdom but without otherwise altering the effect of the existing agreements:

And Whereas by virtue of section 2 of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 3 to, the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975 it is provided that Her Majesty may by Order in Council provide that an Order in Council made under section 105 of the National Insurance Act 1965 or section 84 of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1965 shall have effect with such modifications as may be specified in the Order and, in the case of an Order under the said section 105, shall have effect for the purposes of section 143 of the Social Security Act 1975 and as if the reference in the said sections 105 and 143 to an agreement included a reference to a proposed agreement:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of the said section 2, and the said paragraph 10 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:—