EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order gives effect in England, Wales and Scotland to the Convention (set out in the Schedule to the above regulations) made between the Governments of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands (Cmd. 7911) in so far as the provisions of that Convention provide for reciprocity with France and with the Netherlands (the two other countries which up to the date of the making of the Order in Council have ratified the Convention) in relation to the National Insurance Acts, 1946 to 1949, and modifies those Acts in their application to cases affected by any such provisions of the Convention.