1951 No. 972

NATIONAL INSURANCE

The National Insurance and Industrial Injuries (Reciprocal Multilateral Agreement) (France and the Netherlands) Order, 1951

Made

Coming into Operation

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 31st day of May, 1951

Present,

The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas at Paris on the seventh day of November, nineteen hundred and forty-nine a Convention between the Governments of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands to extend and co-ordinate social security schemes in their application to the nationals of the parties to the Brussels Treaty (which Convention is set out in the Schedule hereto) was signed on behalf of those Governments;

And Whereas by Article 13 of the said Convention it was provided that the Convention should enter into force, between those signatories which had ratified it, two months after the day on which the third instrument of ratification had been deposited with the Secretary-General of the Brussels Treaty Permanent Commission;

And Whereas the said Convention has been ratified by the Governments of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, France and the Netherlands, and the third instrument of ratification was deposited on the 15th day of March, 1951, and accordingly the said Convention enters into force between those Governments on the 15th day of May, 1951;

And Whereas by section 64 of the National Insurance Act, 1946, and section 85 of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act, 1946, it is provided that His Majesty may by Order in Council make provision for modifying or adapting those Acts in their application to cases affected by agreements with other governments providing for reciprocity in the matters specified in those sections;

Now, therefore, His Majesty, in pursuance of the said section 64 of the National Insurance Act, 1946, and the said section 85 of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act, 1946, 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 followsC1:—

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1

Instrument modified (1.2.1972) Bilateral and multilateral reciprocal social security agreements between the United Kingdom and other Member States of the European Communities have generally been superseded, for nationals of those States, by the provisions of Council Regulations (EEC) Nos. 1408/71 and 574/72 to the extent provided by Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No. 1408/71 subject to the exceptions prescribed by that Article and set out in Articles 7, 8 and 46(4) of that Regulation. The following Instrument, while generally superseded for the above reason, may still be of interest in its effect on persons or matters excepted from, or otherwise not covered by, that Regulation.