The National Insurance and Industrial Injuries (Reciprocal Agreement With Italy) Order, 1953

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 28th day of May, 1953

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Whereas at Rome on the twenty-eighth day of November, nineteen hundred and fifty-one a Convention between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Italian Republic on social insurance was signed on behalf of those Governments;

And Whereas by Article 39 of the said Convention it was provided that the Convention should enter into force on the first day of the 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 the Italian Republic, and the instruments of ratification were exchanged on the 30th day of April, 1953, and accordingly the said Convention entered into force on the 1st day of May, 1953;

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 Her 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, Her 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 Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—