Whereas at Geneva on the twenty-eighth day of July, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, a Convention relating to the Status of Refugees was agreed between States (which Convention is hereinafter referred to as “the Convention” and certain provisions of which are set out in the First Schedule hereto):

And Whereas by Article 43 of the Convention it was provided that the Convention should come into force on the ninetieth day following the day of deposit of the sixth instrument of ratification or accession with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and that as regards any State ratifying or acceding subsequently the Convention should enter into force on the ninetieth day following the date of deposit by such State of its instrument of ratification or accession:

And Whereas the Convention has been ratified or acceded to by the States specified in the first column of the Second Schedule hereto and their instruments of ratification or accession were deposited on the dates respectively specified opposite to those States in the second column of that Schedule and the Convention has accordingly come into operation as regards those States on the dates respectively specified opposite to those States in the third column of that Schedule:

And Whereas by section 64 of the National Insurance Act, 1946, as extended by subsection (1) of section 4 of the Family Allowances and National Insurance Act, 1956, 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 the Family Allowances Act, 1945, and the said Acts of 1946 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, extended as aforesaid by subsection (1) of section 4 of the Family Allowances and National Insurance Act, 1956, 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:—C1

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Instrument modified (4.4.1977) by The Social Security and Child Benefit (Reciprocal Agreements) Order 1977 (S.I. 1977/425), arts. 2, 3, 4, Sch.