At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 26th day of January, 1948
Present,
The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Whereas at Paris on the tenth day of February, nineteen hundred and forty-seven a Treaty of Peace with Bulgaria (hereinafter referred to as “the Treaty”) was signed on behalf of His Majesty:
And Whereas the Treaty contains amongst others the provisions set out in the First Schedule hereto:
And Whereas by Section I of the Treaties of Peace (Italy, Roumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland) Act, 1947, (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”) it was provided that His Majesty might make such appointments, establish such offices, make such Orders in Council and do such things as appear to Him to be necessary for carrying out the Treaty, and for giving effect to any provisions of the Treaty, and that any Order in Council made under the Act might provide that persons contravening or failing to comply with provisions of the Order should be guilty of offences against that Section, and that (except in so far as any such Order might provide for lesser penalties) any person guilty of an offence against that Section should be liable to such penalties as were therein mentioned:
And Whereas the Treaty contained the provisions set out in the First Schedule to this Order, and it is expedient for giving effect to the aforesaid provisions of the Treaty that the provisions hereinafter contained should have effect:
And Whereas by Treaty, grant, usage, sufferance or other lawful means His Majesty has power and jurisdiction in the territories specified in the Second Schedule hereto which territories are in this Order together referred to as “Protected Territories”, and is pleased by virtue and in exercise of the power vested in Him by the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890, or otherwise to extend the provisions of this Order to the Protected Territories.
Now, therefore, His Majesty, in pursuance of the said Section and of all other powers enabling Him in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—